////WEEKEND packing////
So I was just looking at the forecast for Florence the next coming days, and it's the worst weather ever when coming to packing for a woman. Sunshine, about 15°, but also rain and colder evenings and winds.
I hate packing, especially with these circumstances and my man want us to travel light. In other words: he wants us to travel with only hand luggage. Nightmare for someone like me!
But what I do try to focus on when packing light, is the colour palette I want to bring. Sober and neutral colours are obviously easier to combine with each other then crazy patterns and shades. For the more lively colours, I go for a few things instead and even so, make sure that they fit the other things for a nice end-result.
But this sort of light packing allows me to be smarter then ever and with a growing belly my options are not that many anyhow. But two coats I will need, traveling in one and bringing the other (simply because they both are so perfect and stunning). So one black and one orange, both in a lovely, pure cashmere. Two different colours of sunglasses is also perfect and these can be matched with more or less everything.
Three different sweaters/cardigans will follow. One black in cashmere and one grey in cashmere/wool blend and a leopard coloured cardigan. They cover the preganancy pants elastic part at the belly and then I spice them up with some nice bijouteri not to be too average. These lovely necklaces comes from a designer I found in Bellagio in Como last summer.
A nicer, white silk top, a bit thinner for a dinner with a dynamic necklace, it will work perfect with blue skinny jeans and those knee high, suede boots. Comfy, casual but yet chic and elegant, but wearing a nice bag and a nice coat - you can get away with most outfits!
So for those spring days with lovely mild temperatures I will wear my Chanel flats (or sport jogging shoes if my SPD/foglossning, is really bad) and I also have that lovely and thinn wool cardigan from Diane Von Furstenberg in leopard to match with most things. Another great thing to bring, is a nice cashmere shawl. This black I
wrote about here and it's so wonderful. Very long, but thin and perfectly warm. I'll have it for the colder evenings and on the flight.
One pair of pregnancy jeans, skinny in model from H&M which are soft as a pair of tights plus three different t-shirts in the same palette as the other things. I usually buy tops and t-shirts from COS.
For bags, I'll travel with the Hermés Birkin bag, my lover, except for M himself. Nothing can go wrong with this time piece on your arm. For evenings I have the classic Chanel 2.55 with gold hard wear. We have made reservations for some of the best restaurants, but my luggage can't afford to pack different dresses for all of them and high heels to go with, so
one dress will serve me for the most fancy of them. This one I love for it's original patterns and it's very comfortable model, from Diane Von Furstenberg.
So! That's it! my God so few things, but surely all my traveling have made me a good packer. I always over packed before and took so many things with me wherever I went. But age and a some sort of matureness have taught me that you can have just as much fun with fewer things, if you work them out well. And like always, nice accessories, shoes, bag and a coat - will take you very far on it's own!
Buon Viaggio to us!
(Let's hope my strong desire won't fail me and sneak in one more thing here and there before departure ...)
