The ideal digital wishlist

 While everyone is busy worrying about what to wear for Christmas and New Year's, I have very different things on my mind. No glitter pants and sequin dresses for me, no hairspray and no smoky eye and definitely no pumps and clutches. As I have now often enough roared here on Amayzine I am flying to Rio de Janeiro on Thursday (yes, on Christmas Day) and will stay there until mid-January, when all the New Year's festivities are well and truly over. So my head is full of summer clothes. Dresses, skirts, flip-flops, and bikinis, you know, everything you can't find in stores right now. Enter: the wish list. Let me explain.

Because I can shout to the Sinterklaases and Santa Clauses in my surroundings that I want “nice summer clothes,” where they should find that is quite unclear. For myself too, by the way. Yes, I do have some summer things at home, but as you also know, I am in the middle of a renovation (although that is slowly coming to an end) and all my clothes are still hidden in large boxes. In short, enough reason for new clothes. Ha!

Because I can shout to the Sinterklaases and Santa Clauses in my surroundings that I want “nice summer clothes,” where they should find that is quite unclear.

And so it happened that I bent over the enormous selection on Zalando.nl, which thankfully has a category for “summer dresses.” I scrolled through page after page and became more and more euphoric with each dress about the fact that I will soon be in a country where I can actually wear all those summer things. A few things were the most important, including Vans. Yes, sneakers. The thing is, I actually think Vans are the only nice sneakers, and walking around in heels in Brazil for three weeks is also a bit much. So they were at the top of my wish list, preferably in a cheerful summer color.

Furthermore, I needed a white dress because Brazilians celebrate New Year's Eve dressed in white to enter the new year pure. It became a lace piece from Morgan, and I can already see myself admiring the fireworks in it. Furthermore, there was still a always-good striped top, a an incredibly nice blouse from Topshop (by the way, I didn't even know Zalando sold Topshop, quite handy) and still a summery flutter dress from Khujo.

During online shopping, you don't put things in your shopping cart, but you add them to your wish list. At the end of the ride, you email that to your Santa Claus, and then he can choose what to buy for you. Think of it as a kind of gift list for when you get married. This is also a solution for birthdays, never again will you have aunts without taste showing up with Oilily dresses.

So I am going to Brazil with a well-filled backpack, to summer. For those who stay in the Netherlands and are indeed walking around with worries about party outfits, besides summer dresses, there is also a category for cocktail dresses with 845 dresses to choose from, so there is definitely something there. All that remains is for me to wish you a crazy Christmas, in your new dress of course.