Well! it’s taken me an awfully long time to get around to this! several years in fact… I’m a little hazy now as to why I never posted this draft post before but well, I didn’t…. however, as mentioned it in my previous post I really do enjoy reflecting on my travel wardrobes so decided to finally finish this one up too…
Time away: 8 days
Where to: Bali, Indonesia
Season: May, which is early dry season. Meaning hot, and quite humid by our standards
Expected activities: attending the wedding of our friends L & L, a couple of fancy dinners, and the rest of it beachwalking, exploring and lolling about the pool
Colour scheme: not really relevant, I just went with my most lightweight and breeziest of summer dresses!
What I packed:
7 dresses (inc 1 fancy for the wedding), 2 skirt and top sets (inc 1 fancy for other dinners), 2 hats, 3 pairs sandals (inc 1 fancy for the evenings), one beach coverup and one bikini. I made everything, including my shoes! except for the turquoise sandals worn to our friends’ wedding
(see below; from top to bottom, left to right.. all are linked to the original blog post)
silk dress, turquoise sandals
white hat, polka dot dress, white sandals
blue dress, white hat, red sandals
floral dress, khaki hat, red sandals
yellow top, ‘map’ skirt, white hat, white sandals
white hat, white coverup, pink bikini (not seen)
lace top and skirt, white sandals
Marimekko dress, white hat, white sandals
turquoise dress, white hat, red sandals
(worn on plane) brown dress, red cardigan, white scarf, white sandals
I cannot post a layout of my pieces this time since a few, namely the turquoise dress, the bikini, and the yellow top, are no longer in my wardrobe and I just felt it would be unsatisfactorily incomplete. Anyway, the outfit pictures should give a good idea!
My daily outfits:
Thoughts; it seems like a lot for an 8 day holiday but it’s really not! Bali is hot and very humid and honestly, your outfit is usually a sweaty mess by the end of the day! so it’s a really good idea to plan a separate dress for each day. Each outfit I packed was very light and airy and worked perfectly for the temperatures. Hats were also an absolute necessity.
Of course I wore my bathers every day for swimming in our little private pool (pic 6 above), and got dressed properly for leaving the hotel room, even walking the beach right out front. Bali is conservative and even though you do see tourists walking around with not much on, it’s considered quite disrespectful to do this. I had my little cardigan and scarf (last picture) for the plane, because the plane is always cold! however I had no need of these items in Bali.
The last time we had been to Bali was for our own honeymoon, a looooong time ago now! and so I made the lace top and skirt (pic 7) to celebrate. I wore this to a few special dinners, and for our friends’ wedding I wore the silk dress in pic 1. It was really nice to have lots of special occasions actually! all in all, a totally lovely holiday and we had a great time, soaking up the sun and enjoying the last little bit of heat before returning to a fast approaching winter back here in Perth.
A perfect holiday wardrobe, I especially love the silk dress.
Love this outfit breakdown and the thought of going to Bali. My family lived in Malaysia in the mid to late seventies. My sisters and I went to school in Perth Australia for one year then to a school in Singapore. I would live to go back to that part of the world.
Great post! I spend a lot of enjoyable time working out my travel wardrobes, especially to Bali, and it’s lovely to see someone else does it too. I agree that dresses are the best for Bali, even tops and skirts can be too hot at times. Terima kasih!