Travel Style

Lately, I have been thinking a lot about free time and travel. I’ve found myself daydreaming about summer vacation since the semi-decent weather returned.
Though I grew up enjoying the sweltering heat, blue skies, and lazy atmosphere of Illinois summer days, I think there is something special about packing your bags and heading to a different destination during the season.

Trekking to a place, during the summer, where the traveler is a stranger in a strange land, one can be whoever they desire. Because traveling provides a sense of freedom, it opens us to new opportunities and adventures. Vacation is a prefect occasion to take chances and risks.

However, if you aren’t the cliff diving type, you can always drastically change up your personal style while on vacation. While on vacation, you can wear things that you could only dream of wearing at home. You can wear completely different clothes and be a completely different person. Feel free to don that massive-brimmed sunhat and red heart-shaped sunglasses or those six inch espadrilles and high rise shorts, you're on vacation, no one knows you.

While laying in the sun and sand and celebrating throughout a moonlit night, you are able wear what you truly like or always dreamed of wearing. Pack your bag with items that allow you to take a vacation from your day to day wardrobe.

Whether for an overnight trip or a week- long expedition, I love to pack. And pack. And pack. Because you never know what sort of situation may arise while traveling, I feel it is crucial to be prepared with odd, tribal printed tunics and 25 pairs of sunglasses of various styles and colors.

I tend to buy and pack some odd things before a vacation. As I have mentioned before, I am a neutrals girl when it comes to my wardrobe, but when preparing for vacation I buy bright colors. I purchase hot pink shorts and red floral tank tops with beads and carefully place them in my suitcase knowing full well I may never wear them upon returning home. But I don’t care; I spend a lot of money on “vacation clothes,” as I like to call them. These are items I purchase to wear ONLY on vacation. It is an absurd concept, but I have done it for at least 8 years. In fact, I should just leave my “vacation clothes” on the island for the next style-adventurous traveler.

Here’s the thing, we all feel different when we are on vacation. We let our hair down and take it easy. We don’t concern ourselves with the outside world. This I believe is why some are adventurous with their fashion decisions on vacation. When some are in a place where freedom and leisure reign supreme, situation calls for a floor-grazing bohemian dress and a flower in hair.

Spring Fever

Today is St. Patrick's Day and the weather is beautiful. The sky is a crystal-clear blue, the air is warm, and the sun is hot. After withstanding an icy winter, the 58 degree temperature feels like summer and is a promising preview for the season to come.

Today's sunny, Spring-like weather conjures up images of sundresses and bare feet. Since January, sneak peeks of new spring trends have filled magazines and flowed throughout the online atmosphere. According to the calendar, Saturday brings the first day of Spring and I must admit, I feel pretty enthusiastic about the outlook for the 2010 season.

Spring is one of the most important of the fashion seasons. Designers, models, editors, photographers, and other fashion royalty gather each September for Spring Fashion Week in New York. Although it is not until March, when the weather begins to warm, that true excitement for the new season comes. This is the way I feel about spring fashion at least.There are many new trends for springtime 2010. In the spirit of today's spring-like weather, I'll offer a few styles I am excited to wear as the temperature continues to rise and the days grow longer.

Probably my favorite item of clothing for the spring and summer months is the dress. Over the past few years, we have seen the reemergence of the dress as a casual warm weather staple. I particularly like short tank top dresses and styles featuring liberty print florals or watercolor motifs. When I think of such dresses visions of afternoons and evenings spent in a flower-filled backyard pop into my head.

I love stripes in any season, and I particularly like them for spring because they have a playful feeling. I like Breton Sailing tops and dresses for spring 2010 for there Parisian vibe.

Two of my favorite colors are baby blue and yellow. I often stick to neutrals like black, white and especially gray in my wardrobe, but I think this year I may take a cue from a sunny sky and wear yellow and blue.

Oxford shoes have also caught my attention this spring. They are a welcome change from the boots i have been wearing since October. I am also planning to continue wearing ballerina flats for they are the most adorable shoe.

I am eager to stash away my sweaters until next Halloween and looking forward to wearing these warm-weather styles.

It appears spring 2010 fashion will offer a breath of fresh air after a long, cold winter.

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