Article What Goes In A Euro Summer Beach Bag
What Goes In A Euro Summer Beach Bag
Euro Summer is not a destination. It's a decision you make when you book the flight — and then again, more deliberately, when you pack the bag.
This is the bag. And what actually goes in it.
The Bag
The Prada Medium Logo Raffia Tote is not subtle and doesn't try to be. A straw bag with the Prada name embroidered in black is a statement that you've already decided how this trip is going to go. It holds: a towel, your glow edit, a paperback you're not going to finish, and one good sarong. It also looks like it cost more than it should, which is the entire point of this category of bag.
The Swim
Start with something reversible. Something that works whether you're on a beach towel or at lunch two hours later without having changed.
The QNDSWIM Triangle Bikini is the edit in its most essential form — minimal coverage, maximum intention, built to be worn both ways. If you want more going on at the sides, The Strappy Bikini does the same thing with a different silhouette. Both are reversible. Both are the reason people ask about your swimwear at the pool.
The Cover
Two answers, depending on where the day is going.
The Solid & Striped Rianne Top paired with the Rianne Skirt is the set you wear from the beach to lunch without stopping to change. White. Tie-front. Low-rise skirt. It looks like you got dressed deliberately and then made it look accidental — which is the only move worth making in this context.
If the day needs something with more energy: the NBD Isabelle Mini Dress in aqua is what you put on when the beach becomes a bar and you're not going back to the hotel first.
The Sandal Situation
Two pairs. This is not negotiable.
Havianas Square Logo Flip Flops for the sand. The black rubber is somehow still a look — they've been around long enough to come back around to cool. These live in the bag until your feet touch the beach.
When the sand comes off: the Schutz Carolyn Leather Sandal in Brown Patent. Low kitten heel. Clean lines. The exact sandal that makes a cover-up look like a deliberate outfit choice. These go on for dinner.
The Seamless Situation
Under the swimsuit: COMMANDO 3-Pack Butter Thong. No lines. No visible waistband. No adjusting anything in public. These are the underwear you forget you're wearing — which is the whole reason you pack them.
The Glow
Two things that have business being in a beach bag.
Augustinus Bader The Body Oil goes in after the salt water. It makes your skin look the way it does on vacation — lit from somewhere you can't quite identify. The smell isn't a bonus. It's a selling point.
Sol de Janeiro Brazilian Bum Bum Cream for the same reasons but with a different agenda. The scent is somewhere between a beach and a dessert. You'll use it more than you expected. You leave a very specific trail wherever you go. That's fine.
The Euro Summer Beach Bag Edit
- Prada Medium Logo Raffia Tote — the bag itself
- QNDSWIM The Triangle Bikini — minimal, reversible, the one
- QNDSWIM The Strappy Bikini — for when you want more at the sides
- Solid & Striped The Rianne Top — beach to lunch cover
- Solid & Striped The Rianne Skirt — pairs with the above
- NBD Isabelle Mini Dress — when the beach becomes the evening
- Havianas Square Logo Flip Flops — for the sand
- Schutz Carolyn Leather Sandal — for everything after
- COMMANDO Butter Thong — under everything
- Augustinus Bader The Body Oil — the glow step
- Sol de Janeiro Brazilian Bum Bum Cream — the scent of the whole thing
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Pack light. Pack right. Go somewhere that deserves the bag.
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