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Julia Wheatley's avatar

Love every picture on this mood board ❤️ It made me instantly excited for holidays

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Sana Ali's avatar

I'm so glad! Every time I look at it it makes me happy.

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Liz Sturge's avatar

Oh my gosh, I swear all of these images could have been taken straight from my Pinterest spring/summer board. Love these so much. I live in the UK and there will be no hot hot summer travel for me, so taking inspiration where I can (and adding a cardigan when I need … which is most of the time 😉)

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Sana Ali's avatar

Most of our summer here in Toronto is really a mix too, so I'm with you on adding layers to those peak summer looks. A cardigan, cropped jean jacket, and cotton summer sweater are my go tos to make these work for Canadian summers.

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Teresa Wu's avatar

This mood board is so good and has me dreaming of a summer escape. Loving the tiny prints! 🤌🏼🤌🏼

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Sana Ali's avatar

I loved putting it together. An yes, tiny prints feel so summery and whimsical.

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Cost per Fit's avatar

This mood board is giving me the travel bug! Love the white linen dress and the white tee/shirt with printed pants combo.

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Sana Ali's avatar

haha summer travel always feels so exciting. The linen dress is so easy and classic.

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Elle Sundberg's avatar

We just booked our summer travel too!! living vicariously through this mood board! Particularly obsessed with that light linen dress, black clogs and giant basket bag pic

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Elle Sundberg's avatar

By light linen dress I meant skirt 😉

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Sana Ali's avatar

And can't wait to see where you go!

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Sana Ali's avatar

The look is SO good and easy. I'm definitely going to recreate it.

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Emily's avatar

How do you know what to search for? I feel like Pinterest in massive and I have no idea where to start…! I found this so interesting, thank you! Hadn’t thought to do it!

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Sana Ali's avatar

Hi Emily! I could to a whole post on this (maybe I will?!), but here are a few simple prompts. I type "summer outfits aesthetic," "summer outfits Europe," "summer outfits Italy" etc. These should bring up loads of great pictures. If you click on one particular image, it will take you to the specific pin. If you scroll below, you will see pins similar to the one clicked, and that's how you go down the rabbit hole of looks you like, such as printed pants, white dresses, and so on. As you find images, you hit save and create a vacation board to save them too. By the end you'll have a board with loads of images. Then you can edit out anything you don't like, feels redundant, or doesn't go with the aesthetic that's emerging. Hope that's helpful!

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Emily's avatar

It is, thanks so much! And yes please to a whole post 💖💖

The only thing for me is that I’m petite and curvy - and like you said, Pinterest tends to be white skinny girls! I’ve tried to search for curvy before but it really loves a skinny white gurl 😂

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Sana Ali's avatar

Ugh, yes, I feel like that's where Pinterest fails us. What you can do is try searching women whose style you like from IG, celebs, whomever, and then typing them into the search bar on Pinterest. For example, I really like Monikh Dale's style, and she's petite and south asian (like me!), so I would search "Monikh summer style".

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Emily's avatar

Oooh hadn’t thought of that, thanks so much!

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Annexes's avatar

I am craving a gingham set right now! Nothing is more summery than that

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