Have to say I always wear long dresses, make up, jewellery (usually silver!) in the evening! This is part of my holiday!
I wear what I would wear to go out to dinner here at home! But it does annoy me when I see people wearing what I consider to be beach clothes for dinner! 'Sir' says I am a snob! But he does like me to dress up and wear the jewellery he has bought me over the years!

I too like to dress up a bit for dinner and usually pack as many clothes for the evening as I do for the day.

I'm glad i'm not the only one that likes to dress up a little for dinner, although I know what you mean Glynis when you say you have gone to lots of effort and then are just in a local bar for 2 hours lol - especially if it's taken you two bouts to get ready. It's part of my holiday and if I didn't do it I wouldn't have an excuse to buy anything new to take with me. My day/pool clothes seem to have been with me for years.

I'm like you Pat and seem to pack more for evening than day ones even though in reality they are only worn for a few hours.

Sometimes, one of us 'can't be bothered' to go out. (I can get fed up of 'getting ready') especially if we've been out exploring all day. So we'll buy a cooked chicken & bit of salad & eat on the balcony. This is why a view is so important to me.

The last couple of years we've had apartments on the traffic free promenade over looking the sea, which means if we stay in, we are 'in' but we are still 'out' :rofl. Only problem is that at about 11pm I can get my 'second wind' and want to go out........

Yes sometimes it can be a bit of a faff, when you are getting ready to go out after 5 or 6 nights. Bit like yourself only with the villas we have been booking over recent years, you can have a lovely BBQ by your own private pool and so be in but out at the same time I'm also not always up for going out on the first night after all that travelling, but sometimes being hungry just forces you to go out

The last night is the worst for me as our flights are usually morning ones. We stay in as I daren't go out (I can't just have 1 drink ), this then becomes the one night when I'm on the balcony, regretting those nights I stayed in

The prom always looks so much more inviting on the last night

Most of my holiday wardrobe is different from my everyday stuff. Because we do a lot of walking/sightseeing - things get dirty and covered in sun tan lotion very quickly. We also downgrade 'normal' clothes into the holiday pile once they get too scruffy. If we are going long haul or are restricted on luggage, we often take very old stuff with the intention to throw things away while we are there. I am very annoyed that M&S have changed the design of my 'holiday essential' linen trousers this year - luckily I stocked up last year!

Reading all this has made me realise that I really do need to get a few more clothes for my holiday in May so I've started looking. In particular I want a couple of pairs of cotton trousers (not white and not cropped), a couple of tops (which cover the tops of my arms) and perhaps a new skirt or dress. So far I haven't had any luck.

I've just received an e-mail from Bon Marche offering me £10 off a £30 shop so checked their site. Lovely lilac trousers (only in size 24 :roll:) most tops and dresses sleeveless or in jersey or more 'formal' wear and skirts either long or mini. Luckilly I've still got a couple of months to find something so I'll have to start looking in earnest.

Lilac trousers sound nice Pat a good colour for somewhere sunny. It's always the way when you finally spot something nice the popular sizes are gone. I have some of the cropped white linens that everyone seems to have they seem to have been popular for about 15 years surely they are eventually going to go out of fashion. I mainly wear skirts though.

I agree Glynis, when I look back I also often regret the night we didn't make the effort to go out, but at the time it seems like the right thing to do, then when I am looking back think things like we could have has a second meal at such and such I can relate to the one drink thing as well !

Doe

When selecting my shirts , collared for evening , polo for daytime for packing I have a colour coded system , blue / checked for the first days then onto light green , then pink and finally white these seem to blend in well as my suntan develops I always do the same though !! Pink can be a brave colour , but it does look good with a bit of suntan , with white loafers and sweater around the shoulders it completes what I call my " Costa Adeje " look Also only brown leather shoes are taken ( slip on ) and leather flip flops , sports wear is fine during daytime a no no at night . There are clothes that I only wear on holiday in my wardrobes .

I do hope that the 'Costa Adeje' look also includes a pair of shorts or trousers, with or without the suntan?

SM

Chino shorts if you have nice legs , otherwise normal chinos , camel / sand / stone are the best colours , jeans are ok too , denim for the younger guys , but dark jeans on those of an age of which I now fall into Socks not needed , a bit of informality is fine , after all it is a holiday but just walking round in boxers would look stupid

My OH has a batik shirt he bought in Penang in 2001! He has taken it on every holiday since.It actually still looks ok.