California Packing List
Silk Blouse | Striped Shirt | Black Sweater | Scarf | Trousers | Jeans | Dress | Trench Coat | Heels | Flats | Converse | Blue Purse | Green Clutch | Pajamas | Bras | Underwear | Socks | Weekender |
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This packing list is for a weekend trip to California (southern portion) at the end of February. It involves attending both a wedding and as a special dinner for out-of-town guests (the night before).
This is where I admit that I suck at finding formal wear outfits and this request requires it. So I am opening this with the admission that I have trouble dressing for formal situations, and my selections may not be even close to what you are looking for.
With planning this vacation wardrobe, both travel and casual pieces are needed because she will be helping with the last-minute wedding preparations.
I need to include 1-2 casual outfits, a dressy dinner outfit, as well as a wedding outfit. Casual is obviously easy, dressy dinner can be made easy by including a silk blouse, and some trousers that can be worn with either some leather flats or heels depending on how dressy the dinner is.
Now for the wedding, which is where I kept hitting walls. I was looking around and getting excited by some pieces only to see that they were expensive like this dress. I would wear that with a blazer and heels.
I have the tendency to pair formal wear with blazers for some reason. I like the look, and how it adds a touch of masculine to the overtly feminine.
I went and pulled several styles that caught my eye, along with some blazers that can be paired with them (because I really like the idea of a tulle skirt, camisole, blazer, and heels).
This weekend packing list consists of:
- one silk blouse, one striped long sleeve
- a sweater
- jeans
- trousers
- light jacket
- Sneakers, and flats
- purse
- scarf
- 1 pair of pyjamas
- socks, underwear, bra
- Formal wear (dress, heels, clutch)
Remember that the jeans, top or sweater, one pair of shoes, jacket, and purse are for your travel outfit. That omits many pieces and makes room for everything easily so you can pack in a weekender.
The formal wear selections I pulled are located below, along with a variety of blazers, and clutch bags.
I’m not the fanciest person in the world and dressing me in formal wear can be a little like pulling teeth. I do my best when the occasion arises and I would wear all the pieces below (and combinations of them).
I put these pieces together into travel outfit ideas that can be found in the What to Wear in California post.
In the meantime I hope you find this weekend packing list helpful.
*The Free People dress shows up below in a bright blue in the picture, but I prefer the grey that it also comes in.
** Also, I don’t usually include the nightwear and undergarments in my lists because it’s sort of assumed that you know what to pack in that department 😉 but this list was small so I decided that it would work.
That and I kind of really love the pajamas. They are a loose fit and look like something I would live in (and it’s yellow, and I love yellow). I wish my local H&M offered more pajamas……and house stuff.
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What is your go-to for formal wear?
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