What to Wear in Greece — The PP Edit
What to Wear in Greece — The PP Edit
On the Greek light, the slow pace of an Aegean day, and the wardrobe that belongs in it.
Greece asks something specific of what you wear in it. The light is different from anywhere else — lower, warmer, landing on white stone and blue water in a way that makes certain fabrics look exactly right and others look entirely wrong. The heat is serious but the pace is not. The occasions shift without announcement — a morning walk to the harbour becomes a lunch that becomes an afternoon swim that becomes an evening at a table above the sea.
The wardrobe for Greece is not a wardrobe of many pieces. It is a wardrobe of the right ones.
Belgian linen is the correct fabric for this light and this climate. The hollow flax fibre breathes in the heat in a way that is felt from the first hour — warmth drawn away from the skin, the body staying regulated across the full length of a day that does not move quickly. The fabric settles with wear, softening through the day rather than losing its composure. The full story of Belgian linen on a Greek island is told elsewhere in the journal.
“Spetses taught me that the finest things are always in harmony with the place they come from.”
— Pieter Petros, founderFor men, the PP linen shirt in a lighter colourway — Oyster, Vanille, or White — carries the Greek light correctly. It does not compete with the setting. It belongs in it. Worn open at the collar with the PP Tennis Shorts for the morning, with the PP linen trouser for the evening — the shirt moves through the full range of a Greek day without requiring a decision.
For women, the PP linen set is the Greek island wardrobe resolved in two pieces. The Dubarry — warm, vivid — reads differently against the Aegean than it does anywhere else. The cooler tones carry a particular ease in the long afternoon. Both move from beach to terrace to dinner without requiring a change of intention.
Spetses is where PP began — seventeen summers, a conviction about how clothes should feel in a place like this, and a brand built on that single observation. The collection belongs equally at One&Only Aesthesis on the Athenian Riviera, at One&Only Kéa Island further into the Aegean — addresses where the standard of the setting and the standard of the garment find each other. The full founding story is in the journal.
Greece does not require much. The right shirt. The right cloth. The light does the rest.
