Frock Fridays: Shore Whites

It's Memorial Day Weekend!  At this time last year, I was a week away from repatriating to the United States.  Can you believe I've been back for so long?  Not sure I can!  But it means that we're a year closer to my wedding and a year closer to being reunited with Jon for good.  Speaking of my wedding, I realized too late that I wasn't ready for Wedding Wednesday this week so, since we're officially allowed to wear whites as of this weekend, let's make this a Frock Fridays / Wedding Wednesday hybrid post again today.

My amazing sister and Maid of Honor has been emailing me about my American bachelorette party - yes, I'm having another one in London! - and I'm getting so excited about it even though she's keeping her cards close to the vest.  The main idea at the moment is to spend some time on the Eastern Shore, the spit of land split between Maryland and Virginia just below Delaware that divides the Chesapeake Bay from the Atlantic Ocean.  It's got lovely towns full of antique stores and bars right on the water, restaurants offering crab buffets so wonderfully overwhelming that you leave with Old Bay in your pores, and, of course, miles and miles of beaches.

I'd love to pack an outfit like this if we go out for the weekend: a breezy white sundress cinched with a braided brown leather belt, accessorized with chambray mini-wedge espadrilles and a nautically-striped tote and topped of with a vintage denim jacket for the cool evenings.  It would be perfect for a day on the shore!

Actually, these pieces would also be perfect for an early morning on the promenade in Saint Malo, France.  If you don't know what I'm talking about, head over to Le Petit Village, where I'm sharing the story of how international love blossomed one summer many years ago...

Edited: the bag I had originally included with this outfit was from Primark, and after receiving an incredibly thoughtful email from a reader (who will be named as soon as she gives me permission to do so!) reminding me about Primark's abysmal record when it comes to corporate social responsibility and human rights violations.  As much as I liked that bag, I like life more - so I've replaced it with another.  (I couldn't find anything horrible about Michael Kors, though it sounds like the company isn't actually very transparent in their practices, so I'll keep reading up on it.)  This is obviously a topic for a much longer blog post, but I do quickly want to thank that reader here for making me stop and think and change.

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