PP Natural Sets — The Complete Guide to the Men's Set Collection
How to Style the PP Natural Set — Five Outfit Configurations for Every Occasion
Five distinct ways to wear the PP Natural Set — from the boat to the resort dinner.
The PP Natural Set — a matched certified Belgian linen shirt and natural swim shorts in the same colourway — is the most versatile single purchase in the PP men's collection. What makes it genuinely useful is not just the quality of the individual pieces but the number of distinct outfit configurations it produces. Five configurations, one purchase.
Configuration one — the boat deck. White PP Natural Set, open shirt, natural swim shorts, leather deck shoes. The most elemental version: the shirt open as a cover over the swim shorts, worn on the boat deck between swimming stops. The matched colourway reads as composed even in the most casual configuration. The natural swim shorts are water-capable — into the water from the stern and back on deck without a change.
“The PP Natural Set produces five distinct outfit configurations from a single purchase. The matched Belgian linen colourway is what makes each configuration read as considered rather than accidental.”
— Pieter Petros, founderConfiguration two — the beach club arrival. White or Vanille Natural Set, shirt buttoned from the third button down, natural swim shorts, leather sandals. The beach club entrance configuration — more composed than the boat but still clearly beach-appropriate. The matched set reads as considered at the beach club table in a way that uncoordinated separates do not.
Configuration three — the beach club lunch. Same set, shirt more fully buttoned, leather sandals. As the day moves from the beach to the lunch table, the Natural Set transitions by buttoning up rather than changing. The matched linen reads as appropriate for the beach club terrace in the same way as a tailored combination reads for the restaurant.
Configuration four — the resort afternoon. Natural Set with the shirt fully buttoned and worn out, leather loafers instead of sandals. The afternoon configuration that carries the set from the beach club into the resort town or the hotel terrace without requiring a trouser change.
Configuration five — the resort evening with one addition. The Natural Set shirt tucked into linen trousers, leather shoes. The shirt from the Natural Set carries the evening occasion when paired with linen trousers — the matched Belgian linen of the set shirt is the same quality in the evening context as in the beach context. One shirt, two occasions in the same day.
