The Florida Style Edit: 5 Summer Pieces Before the Island Shop Closes
The Florida Style Edit
Coastal style for women who already know what they like
The 5 Summer Pieces This 22-Year Florida Boutique Is Clearing First, Before It Closes Its Doors
A small island label most women have never heard of is leaving its storefront. We went through what they are clearing and pulled the five pieces actually worth your time.
Most women will not hear about Sanibel Boutique until after it has closed, which is a shame, because for 22 years it has quietly been doing the one thing most summer labels get wrong.
It made clothes for real women in real heat. Pieces that stay cool, that skim instead of cling, and that look like you made an effort without feeling like you are wearing a costume. The shop sat a few streets back from the water on Sanibel Island, Florida, found mostly by word of mouth, and dressed the same women summer after summer.
Now the lease is ending. The founder, Eleanor, is closing the island shop and moving the whole thing online, which means the entire summer collection is clearing. The discount stacks when you take more than one piece, up to 30 percent on top, so some of these land at up to 75 percent off. We are not paid by the boutique. We simply went through the racks so you do not have to, and pulled the five we would actually spend our own money on.
We judged them the way our readers do. Does it keep you cool in eighty-eight degrees. Does it cling to the parts you would rather it left alone. Does it still look like something the morning after you washed it. Five passed without an argument.
Pick 1 · The everyday hero
The Zamma Linen Top
If you buy one thing from the edit, buy this.
A relaxed 100% linen V neck, the real kind that breathes instead of the stiff sort that crackles. It skims the middle instead of clinging to it, the open collar and single wooden button do the work of looking pulled together, and the sleeves cover the tops of the arms without adding a degree of heat. It is the one women stop each other over in the grocery car park, and the piece the founder says she reaches for herself on the hottest days.
$129.95 now $59.95
"The only top I can wear in the worst of August without sweating through it by lunchtime."
Pick 2 · The dress you live in
The Kwani Cotton Dress
The one women say they wear six times a week.
Soft 100% cotton, knee length, with a round neck and a cut that skims instead of hugging. The detail women will not stop mentioning is the pockets, deep enough for a phone and keys, so the dress is the whole outfit and there is no bag to carry. Pull it over your head in four seconds and you are done. It looks like something you would have paid two hundred dollars for in a resort shop, which is exactly why our readers keep naming it.
$179.95 now $69.95
"Real pockets, and it does not cling. I wore it six times in three weeks before my husband asked if it was new."
Pick 3 · The easy layer
The Rhea Striped Blouse
The one that goes over everything.
A soft, lightweight striped blouse in a quiet blue and white, the kind of stripe you would see on good linen rather than a beach towel. It is cut loose and long enough to wear over trousers or a slip, the sleeves roll to the elbow on the hottest days, and the vertical stripe does the flattering for you. This is the layer you reach for when a plain top feels like too little effort and a dress feels like too much.
$139.95 now $52.95
"It goes over everything and the stripes quietly hide a multitude. It has become my summer go-to."
Pick 4 · The dressed-up one
The Cassandra Midi Dress
For when there is somewhere to be and it is still 88 degrees.
A midi that reads as dressed up and feels like nothing at all. The soft black top half meets a muted print across the lower half, so it looks considered without trying, and the relaxed cut skims rather than clings. It even has pockets. This is the one you reach for when there is a lunch, a gallery, a dinner out, and you want to look like you made an effort while actually staying comfortable in the heat.
$149.95 now $73.95
"People think I dressed up. I pulled one thing over my head and walked out the door."
Pick 5 · The traveller
The Fayo Day Top
The one that earns its place in a small suitcase.
A light, easy day top that travels without a single crease and stays cool from a morning at the market to dinner out. The soft button placket and relaxed shape mean it works tucked or loose, dressed up with a necklace or down with jeans. Roll it in a case, shake it out, wear it, and it looks like you ironed it. For a woman who packs light and still wants to look put together, this is the workhorse.
$129.95 now $58.95
"Packed it for a week, never ironed it once, looked put together every single day."
⚠ Worth knowing before the shop closes
Because the boutique is clearing and not restocking, sizes go and do not come back. The popular colours in the Kwani and the Zamma are already marked low, and once a size is gone for the season it is genuinely gone. If a piece in the edit is calling you, it is worth checking your size now rather than at the end.
Check sizes in the edit →The discount stacks the more you take
Extra off, applied automatically at checkout. No codes. Free shipping and 30 day returns on everything.
A note on the price
We asked, because up to 75 percent off real linen and cotton sounded too good. The answer is simple. The shop is clearing, not restocking, and Eleanor told us plainly that at these prices she is barely breaking even. She would rather the pieces go to women who will wear them than sit folded in a box while the lease runs out. Sanibel has 847 reviews from women who found it before we did, and there is no plan to bring these prices back once the island shop is gone.
The Final Summer Edit
Up to 75% off, while sizes last
- All five picks, and the full summer collection
- Real linen and cotton, cut to skim and not cling
- Free shipping & 30 day money back guarantee
Stack and save: buy 2 save 15%, buy more and save up to 30% extra.
Shop the full Summer EditJust looking for dresses?
The whole moving sale runs deeper than these five. If it is the summer dresses you are after, the Kwani and the Cassandra sit alongside the rest of the clearing collection, up to 75% off while sizes last.
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