There are actually a few specific clothing and accessory options Koszarek will and won’t wear when she’s traveling. Of course, this is all based on personal preference, and you should always wear what you love, but for Koszarek, the said items are deal breakers for comfy and chic looks.
Keep scrolling for travel outfit inspiration, complete with a smattering of inspired shopping picks if you want to consider any of the items for your next getaway.
“When traveling this spring, I’ll leave my heavy coat at home and pack a lightweight denim jacket. It’s an easy go-to layer, and I can create casual looks by wearing it with all my outfits, from my joggers to dresses. Blazers are another staple item I’ll wear when traveling. Again, I pack a neutral color that coordinates with my outfits and fits into my color scheme.”
“I love wearing sneakers, but I won’t wear bright-colored sneakers while traveling. Instead, I’ll wear classic white sneakers that coordinate with my outfits. I also won’t wear chunky shoes when traveling, but I will wear lightweight slides I can wear with denim during the day and a dress in the evening.”
“I won’t wear a silk blouse. Instead, I’ll wear a classic white button-down that I can style several different ways. I also love the versatility of a tank top and will wear them often instead of a silk camisole. A favorite airplane outfit is wide-leg pants, a tank top, and a denim jacket.”
“I won’t wear skinny jeans, but I will wear flare and straight-leg jeans that coordinate with tank tops, a white blouse, and blazers. I also won’t pack multiple pairs of leggings. Instead, I’ll pack one pair of leggings and one pair of joggers to wear for yoga, walking, and lounging.”
If there’s one thing in your closet that you can never have too many of, it’s dresses. You could honestly squeeze hundreds into even a small space because of how compressible they are. And of course, the styling opportunities are endless. Just by adding the right accessories and maybe a white button-down or cardigan, you can take your look to a whole new level. So naturally, around this time of year, I’m stocking up on them, and lately, my cart has been full at every single retailer.
I’m the kind of girl who loves to feel brand-new every time she gets dressed, so I’m thinking the more, the merrier when building out this summer’s dress collection, which is what led me to these Amazon finds. A good price point always seals the deal for me when I’m debating which items to choose for my collection, and luckily, the dresses I tried came in at under $40. Keep scrolling to shop them all.
Sunny yellow, this dress immediately caught my eye as I scrolled through Amazon’s best sellers. The pretty print is sure to brighten up my life any day I wear it. It was an easy add to cart.
I’m loving maxi styles right now, and this one lands at the perfect length.
I’ve been seeing this dress on the list of Amazon best sellers for a few years in a row now, so I had to finally give it a try. This is truly a wear-everywhere dress. It can be styled for both formal and casual affairs with just a simple accessory swap.
It comes in so many colors, but neutrals are speaking to me right now. It’s impossible not to look tan when you’re wearing it.
It’s all in the details for me. The puffed sleeve and tiered skirt add a special element to this dress that can’t be ignored. Even the buttons feel special, so I was glad I tried it on.
Such an easy throw-on-and-go number. Any time you’re stuck wondering what you should wear, you can lean on this.
This dress blew me away with how flattering it is. It fits at the bust just right with a flared skirt that accentuates the waistline. Gingham isn’t going anywhere, so you can count on this dress.
The cutout is my favorite part.
You’ll easily make a statement in this beautiful, daring-red dress. It’s the perfect shade of the bold colorway. My only regret is that I should’ve sized down. I would suggest trying out a smaller size in this one.
In case you didn’t notice, it has pockets.
This dress has been in style for many years now. It’s time to give it a try.
The perfect beach cover-up.
The princess in me is twirling.
This dress is the move.
No color was left out.
I’m going hard on the puff sleeves this summer.
Your everyday look.
This looks designer.
I can just tell this is a high-quality knit.
It’s giving Carrie Bradshaw at a pool party.
All of the little details on this dress have caught my eye.
Actor and race car driver Patrick Dempsey wearing a vintage TAG Heuer Autavia (Courtesy Rizzoli)
“What’s so alluring about cars and watches is the level of meticulous design, engineering and savoir faire behind the manufacture of each.” As both a car and watch collector, not to mention a racing driver and TAG Heuer brand ambassador, actor Patrick Dempsey knows whereof he speaks.
The Koenigsegg Limited Edition chronograph made by Edox (Courtesy Rizzoli)
“They’re both investments spurred by passion and emotion, heritage and futurism—vintage models are sought after like cult totems, while modern innovation ensures a steady evolution into the present and beyond. There’s no limit to the connoisseurship inherent to each.”
Girard-Perregaux’s Tourbillon with Three Flying Bridges – Aston Martin Edition (Aston Martin)
His remarks appear in the afterword to a cool new deluxe edition of the most comprehensive and beautifully-designed book ever created celebrating the connection between cars and watches: Drive Time, by Aaron Sigmond, author of numerous top-shelf luxury lifestyle books, just published by Rizzoli.
F1 legend Sir Lewis Hamilton wearing an IWC (Courtesy Rizzoli)
In addition to detailed chapters on the history of the car-watch connection is a deep dive on more than 100 auto-inspired watches from the mid-20th century, from the Rolex Daytona and the Heuer Autavia, Carrera, and Monaco, through more contemporary collections including the Chopard Mille Miglia, Breitling by Bentley, Porsche Design, Hublot Ferrari, IWC Mercedes-Benz AMG, and Girard-Perregaux x Aston Martin collections–all of them mechanical marvels.
Girard-Perregaux’s Tourbillon with Three Flying Bridges – Aston Martin Edition (Aston Martin)
“Mechanical watches and automobiles have a lot in common,” as another notable car and watch collector, Jay Leno, points out in the book’s foreword.
“For example, a contemporary twin-clutch paddle-shift transmission might be faster than a conventional manual gearbox, but I don’t think it’s more satisfying to drive. Then consider this: An electronic watch might keep time to the hundredth of a second, but that’s nowhere near as rewarding as that quiet moment when you wind the crown on a mechanical watch each evening before you go to bed.”
A TAG Heuer Monaco, as made famous by Steve McQueen (TAG Heuer)
Leno reveals that his watch collection now numbers about 100 pieces. “Like automobiles, paintings, even buildings, the first thing you notice with a watch is how it looks,” he muses. “Are the numbers cool? Is the typeface interesting? Another good sign is a second hand that moves chronometrically—click, click, click—like the five-inch Smith’s speedometer on a Vincent Black Shadow. That says quality, and it’s why so many watches now copy the dashboards of famous automobiles.”
An Autodromo timepiece paying homage to vintage auto instrumentation (Courtesy Rizzoli)
The great watch designers, Leno declares, “are like great automotive engineers: the Duesenberg brothers, W.O. Bentley, Harry Miller, Leo Goosen, Vittorio Jano. They’re the same kind of guy: inventive, meticulous, very clever.”
A montage of vintage racing scenes from the ‘Drive Time’ book showcasing iconic motorsports-inspired watches including (from top to bottom) the Heuer Monaco, Rolex Daytona, and Heuer Carrera (Rizzoli)
In the first chapter of the book, Sigmond calls automobiles and mechanical watches “two of the greatest mechanically power-driven inventions of the 20th century.” And while he notes that “the mass-produced automobile and the wristwatch grew up side by side, forging peerless style, design, and shared mechanical engineering along the way,” the relationship between the two began much earlier.
The gauges in the cockpit of a classic Ferrari have inspired numerous watch designers (Rizzoli)
“From the time automobiles first roamed the earth, there have been watches…. created specifically for cars and drivers.” And the company that started it all was Alfred Dunhill Ltd., or, as it was called when founded in 1893, Alfred Dunhill Motorities.
An image from the Aston Martin collection by Girard-Perregaux, with the Aston Martin DBX in the background (Aston Martin)
“In 1911, a year after Dunhill introduced its right-side-up car watch, Heuer, the precursor to the company and brand now known as TAG Heuer, debuted ‘Time of Trip,’ the first dashboard-specific chronograph,” Sigmond tells us. “By midcentury it would create and launch the split-second Sebring stopwatch for race timekeeping, as well as the Carrera and Monaco Chronograph wristwatches.”
On and on the timekeeping innovations went, and by 1915, “another of today’s familiar fine-watchmaking names, Jaeger-LeCoultre (at the time called LeCoultre & Cie), had begun manufacturing dashboard instruments for the prestigious automobiles of the day.”
(Rizzoli)
By the early 1940s, “the wrists of more discerning—not to say wealthier—motorists glimmered” with drivers’ watches produced by the likes of Cartier, Universal Genève, Vacheron Constantin, and LeCoultre.
And as racing gained popularity, so did the new racing chronographs that “bore brands and model names quite familiar to modern eyes: Breitling Navitimer, Omega Speedmaster, Rolex Daytona, and a bounty of Heuer chronos such as the Autavia, Carrera, Monaco… As Henry Ford famously observed, ‘Auto racing began five minutes after the second car was built.’ Drivers had to time it all somehow.” The rest, as they say, was history—though hardly lost time.
On the F/W 22 runways, there were plenty of high-impact trends. Among them, super oversize clothing which seems to be getting bigger each season, grunge fashion tapping into ‘90s angst, and floor-sweeping hemlines which are set to be the silhouette to wear in the coming months. One of the other big fall trends is somewhat surprising: the white tank top.
The white tank top is an unexpected trend for fall 2022 because of its simplicity, but its presence on in the F/W 22 can’t be denied. At Bottega Veneta, the opening look was a simple white tank and jeans—an intentional and clear statement about the hold white tanks will have on all of us come fall. Prada, too, opened (and closed) their collection with a white tank top—a style designed with the brand’s signature triangle logo that was repeated in 9 looks throughout the show. Solid proof that white tank tops will be a key buy for fall, logo or no logo.
Whether or not it’s already in your closet, there are plenty of cool ways to wear the staple. Ahead, see how the white tank top trend was styled on the F/W 22 runways and how fashion insiders are wearing it now.
For S/S 22, Prada debuted a collection stocked with distressed leather jackets, which have since become one of the dominant trends for spring. Think of the white logo tank as Prada’s answer to which key trend will be important to invest in for fall.
The logo tank I’m currently eyeing.
Though this outfit may look simple, it’s actually constructed from leather. Here, Bottega Veneta is making a case for pieces that are pared-back, yet simultaneously high-quality and luxe.
You can always count on Totême for great staples.
The scoop neck silhouette was particularly strong, as seen on the Chloé runway.
Skims has perfected easy basics.
Leather pants stood out as a key styling piece to pair with white tank tops, as seen here on the Bevza runway.
Just add tailored leather trousers.
The fashion set has already been test-driving the trend. The Loewe logo tank has stood out as a key seasonal buy.
This tank top is selling out everywhere.
Style your tank top with jeans and a cardigan.
I love a racerback silhouette.
A polished outfit doesn’t get easier than a tank top, trousers, and a belt.
So many people swear by this tank top.
The fashion insider 2022 uniform.
This linen style is perfect for summer.
Logo tanks are having a moment.
Tap into the logo tank trend with this piece from Nike.
Perfect for layering.
How good is this piece from Off-White?
If you’re looking for a cropped style.
Another great crop top.
To style with a slip skirt.
Your new staple for summer and fall.
The perfect silhouette.
Bodysuits are great if you want to skip constant retucking.
