Everything worth knowing about Greece Fashion is below, starting with the part that changes what you buy. Pack for the thing you will do most often, not for the one memorable evening. Fabrics that recover from creasing matter more than weight when the case is small. Lining is what stops a cheap fabric reading as cheap. The groups below run from the decision that matters most to the ones you make afterwards.

What decides this is shoulder fit, length and how the fabric moves. Everything else is preference. Two from the first group show the range: THATS SO FETCH's Caryn Dress - White at $45, and Ronny Kobo's Kallista Dress at $259. The first is the easy entry point; the second is where the money goes. A dress that fits the shoulders can be taken in anywhere else. One that does not, cannot. Check where the waist seam sits on the model against your own proportions. A higher price mostly buys materials and finishing, and occasionally it buys nothing at all.

A belt turns a shapeless dress into a deliberate one. Let the dress be the loudest thing you own that day. From the second group, rebeccavallance.com's Nyx Strapless Mini Dress ($418) is the one that earns its place, because it works in more than one context without being restyled. The third group is smaller and deliberately narrower, coats and jackets, for the decisions you make after the main one. None of this needs the whole group. One piece from each is usually enough.

There are 20 pieces here from 13 brands, $34 to $648, all in stock when this was written. We would not buy all of them, and neither should you. thatssofetch.com's Julia Skirt - White at $34 is the low-risk way in, and Veronica Beard's Circe Bubble Jacket at $648 only makes sense if this is a category you already use constantly. Read as a set, they get you close to Greece Fashion without any single purchase being compulsory. Nothing here is included because it is famous, and price is not used as a proxy for quality anywhere on this page. If you take one thing away: if you would not buy it at full price, you do not want it on sale.