Beach guide part 2: choose your beachwear cover-ups wisely

Finding the right swimwear can be annoying and chances are that you don’t find something you want to spend the whole day in at all! So beachwear cover-ups are here to help you to feel comfortable at the beach. The perfect beachwear cover-up is not only a question of personal shape and style, but also strongly depending on the kind of beach you are going to (think: natural beach without artificial sun protection, hotel beach, where you meet the same people every day…)! Lets start today with the ideal cover-ups for a northern natural beach, like German north sea islands, French Normandy, Demark, Sweden and the likes!

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beachwear cover-ups for a day at a northern, natural beach

  1. classic Panama hat
  2. Isabel Marant, Rodd Top, mytheresa.com
  3. MERCI CONCEPT STORE PARIS, beige linen pants, merci-merci.com
  4. LIKA MIMIKA, espadrilles, grey, likamimika.com
  5. Vanessa Bruno, large Cabas bag, mytheresa.com

 When planning your beachwear cover-ups for a day at a natural beach you have to take the following practical issues not consideration:

  • Its likely that you have to walk quite a distance until you reach the beach! To avoids stones in the shoes I prefer a closed style over a sandal. Espadrilles are my shoe of choice – Can be as expensive as a Chanel or as cheap as a few EURO’s for a pair directly bought at a souvenir shop at your holiday destination. I personally love to stay in-between and go for a pair of TOMS or LIKA-MIMIKA.
  • Artificial sun protection is lacking, you have to rely on natural sun protection! Although one might feel tempted to go in denim cut-offs I started to skip this look for the beach in recent years. Its much better to choose a long thin linen pant (like the perfect ones, which can be found at the Parisian Merci concept store). They are also perfect for playing beach games!
  • If you are with children you usually have to take a huge amount of luggage with you, which includes beach games, balls etc….