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.