Pacific Coast

Southern California — Women's

Notes from the coast

Clothes that don't mind sand in the cuffs.

— The Outdoer editors

Southern California isn't one place — it's a coastline of habits. Dawn patrol at Trestles. Bonfires at Huntington. The drive up PCH with the windows down and the sand still in your hair from yesterday. The wardrobe for it has to be forgiving and quiet: lightweight, salt-friendly, with enough structure to walk into a restaurant afterward.

This edit leans on pieces that handle the whole day — terry and French terry, board shorts that read as dinner shorts, tees and linen that look right with a wetsuit half-zipped or a gin and tonic in hand. Brands we carry here: Rhone, Glyder, Ten Thousand, Cuts — and Johnnie-O for the shoreside moment.