What to Wear in St Barts at Christmas — The PP Wardrobe
What to Wear in St Barts at Christmas — The PP Wardrobe
What to wear in Saint Barths at Christmas — the peak social season, daytime, evening occasions, and New Year’s Eve.
Saint Barths at Christmas is a different proposition from Saint Barths in the summer — the island's most intense social season, the New Year's period when the superyacht harbour fills with the largest vessels in the world, the villa rental prices at their annual peak, and the social calendar compressed into a fortnight of extraordinary intensity. The wardrobe requires everything the summer version does, but with additional occasions and a higher social register throughout.
The Christmas season register. The week between Christmas and New Year in Saint Barths is the most formally observed leisure period in the Caribbean. The parties at Gustavia's restaurants and bars, the yacht gatherings in the harbour, the villa dinners, the New Year's Eve celebrations — all carry a higher social register than the quieter summer months. The wardrobe should be capable of carrying both the beach afternoon and the composed evening consistently.
“Saint Barths at Christmas is a different proposition from the summer. The New Year period is the island’s most intense social season — the wardrobe needs to carry the beach afternoon and the composed evening with equal confidence.”
— Pieter Petros, founderFor the daytime. White PP linen over natural swim shorts at the beach or St Jean's beach clubs. The same natural fabric combination carries the daytime as in any other Saint Barths context — the island's December temperatures are warm rather than tropical, which makes the natural linen wardrobe as comfortable as in the summer.
For the evening occasions. The Christmas and New Year evening occasions in Saint Barths reward a more composed version of the natural linen wardrobe than the summer average. A navy PP linen shirt with natural linen trousers and a PP velvet loafer for the restaurant evening; a PP navy linen blazer over a white PP linen shirt with navy linen trousers and the PP velvet loafer for the New Year's Eve occasion. For women: the Amelia dress shirt in Oyster or a composed colourway with leather heels.
The packing consideration. For a Saint Barths Christmas trip, the full range of the PP linen wardrobe is relevant — swim shorts and a beach shirt for the daytime, composed navy and natural combinations for the evenings, a blazer for the most formal occasions.
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