Spring Break✈
Sun safe clothing is chic
Welcome to UPF Clothing, a Substack publication focused on helping you to find and make sense of the sun protective clothing options available today.
As winter gives way to spring, many look forward to Spring Break. We certainly do! Perhaps you’re reading this poolside🏖️ somewhere warm. If you are, we’d love to hear about it.
The Skin Cancer Foundation recently posted this on Instagram:
It’s a carousel and one of the images caught our eye:
Here is the Skin Cancer Foundation making the claim that sun safe clothing is chic. Well, if we’re being honest, most of it isn’t in our view but that is precisely why
exists: to search for sun safe clothing that is cute.🧳Packing List
The Skin Cancer Foundation lists wide-brimmed hats, UV-blocking shades, and UPF clothing as must haves. We agree. Here are some of our favorites.
👒Hats
Solbari has sun hats for women and men and kids.
We are fans of the ✅ Resort Sun Hat (UPF50+) for women and have traveled with it across three continents.
🕶Sunglasses
Some years ago, we bought a pair of ✅Maui Jim sunglasses. We loved them so much a few years later we bought a second pair. We still have (and wear) both pairs.
Maui Jim has sunglasses for men and women. They also offer prescription sunglasses.
If you want a more affordable option, Wirecutter has a list of the best cheap sunglasses.
👚UPF clothing
We are preparing to launch our own coverage of UPF clothing. Until then, we have published a round up of UPF clothing options recommended by Glamour, The Strategist, Travel + Leisure and others.
🏷Brands
We also maintain a quick-reference page on our website with links to brands that offer UPF clothing. This list is updated as we discover more brands.
🛎 Ask Cute Sun Protection
Finally, if you’re looking for some sun protective clothing and would like some suggestions, please email or DM us and tell us what you’re looking for and we’ll do our best to help.
This Q&A may be featured in a future newsletter.
Thanks for reading. We appreciate your interest and welcome any feedback or comments you may have as we begin to scale this newsletter.
Stay sun safe,
-CSP