What to Wear to a Rooftop Bar — The PP Natural Fabric Guide
What to Wear to a Rooftop Bar — The PP Natural Fabric Guide
What the rooftop bar requires — the dress code, the hotel rooftop, the Mediterranean terrace — the PP linen answer.
The rooftop bar is one of the most consistently observed social occasions in the warm-weather wardrobe calendar — and one of the most confusing in terms of dress code, because the register sits precisely at the intersection of smart-casual and dressed-up that most wardrobe guidance addresses poorly. Natural linen in the correct colourway is the answer for every rooftop context.
What the rooftop bar requires. The rooftop bar is outdoors or semi-outdoors, elevated, and typically serving a clientele that has made a visual effort. It is neither as relaxed as the beach club nor as formal as the restaurant. The dress code, where stated, is typically "smart casual" — which means: collared shirt, clean silhouette, shoes rather than sandals (in most contexts). Natural linen in a composed colourway meets every version of this requirement.
“The rooftop bar sits precisely at the intersection of smart-casual and dressed-up that most wardrobe guidance addresses poorly. Natural linen in the correct colourway is the answer for every rooftop context.”
— Pieter Petros, founderFor the hotel rooftop bar — Dubai, Beirut, Singapore, New York. The managed rooftop bars of luxury hotels — the Address Sky View in Dubai, the rooftop of the Jolie Vue in Beirut, 1-Altitude in Singapore, the Top of the Rock in New York — have a higher visual standard than most. A PP linen shirt in navy or dark blue, tucked into natural or navy linen trousers with leather loafers. The composed smart-casual combination that reads as genuinely considered at the most observed rooftop contexts.
For the Mediterranean terrace rooftop. The rooftop bars of Positano, Mykonos, Santorini, Ibiza — more relaxed in register, more outdoor in atmosphere. A PP linen shirt in white or oyster, tucked or untucked depending on the formality of the restaurant below the bar, with linen shorts or linen trousers and leather sandals or loafers.
For women. A PP ladies linen set in a composed colourway for the hotel rooftop context; the Amelia dress shirt in Oyster or a vivid colourway for the Mediterranean terrace rooftop. The difference is the setting — the more urban and luxury-hotel the context, the more composed the colourway.
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