Linen Shirt for a Sailing Regatta — The PP Spectator and Social Wardrobe
Linen Shirt for a Sailing Regatta — The PP Spectator and Social Wardrobe
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The major regattas. Cowes Week (Isle of Wight, August) — the most socially observed sailing event in the British calendar; the Royal Yacht Squadron dinner is the most formally observed occasion. The Rolex Cup (Porto Cervo, September) — the Costa Smeralda's social peak. Les Voiles de St Tropez (October) — the Nioulargue course in the bay of St Tropez. Each produces a specific social programme where natural linen is the correct wardrobe.
The spectator boat wardrobe. Watching the racing from a RIB or tender: natural swim shorts and a white PP linen shirt. The spray is real — natural swim shorts rather than linen shorts for the boat without exception.
“The regatta has two wardrobe contexts: the racing itself, where technical gear is correct; and the social programme around the race — the spectator boat, the prize-giving, the yacht club dinner — where natural linen carries every occasion.”
— Pieter Petros, founderThe prize-giving and yacht club dinner. The social culmination of the regatta day. A navy PP linen shirt with linen trousers and leather shoes. The Cowes yacht club dinners reward the most composed and most formally considered wardrobe in the sailing calendar.
The crew party and the marina social. The less formal end of the regatta programme. White PP linen with linen shorts and leather deck shoes.
