Resort wear for men is a category with a specific problem. Most garments look like resort wear — loose, bright, identifiably holiday — without solving the underlying problem. The problem is not aesthetic. It is functional. A resort day is long, hot, and varied. The wardrobe has to follow it.

A resort day moves through three registers. The morning — breakfast, the pool, the beach — asks for something that breathes without effort. The afternoon — terrace, the slow shift between water and land — asks for the same cloth to continue without adjustment. The evening — dinner, the harbour, anywhere the setting has been prepared — asks for the same garment to hold at a standard the occasion justifies.

Most resort wardrobes fail at the transitions. The PP edit does not.

The morning shirt: Belgian linen in a lighter colourway — Laos in White, Cuba in Vanille — worn open at the collar over a swim short. The pool: the PP swim short alone, linen outer and cotton lining, moving from the water to the sun lounger without the stiffness that most swim fabrics produce once dry. The dinner: the Monte-Carlo Male in Oyster or a richer colourway, linen trousers, the PP shoe — handmade in Italy, velvet exterior, Italian leather lining. One wardrobe. No gap between its parts.

Dubai, the Maldives, Greece, the Caribbean. Wherever the resort is, the edit is the same. Belgian linen. Natural buttons. Handmade in Dubai. The certificate of origin with every piece.

The full resort packing guide covers what to bring and how to build the complete natural wardrobe for any destination.