Sizzling winter resort wear

Bing Shopping | Stripe dresses | tops

Designers filled their resort and cruise collections with looks both sexy and demure, and now these casual classics are being reinterpreted at lower prices that everyone can enjoy. Get trend-right with stripes of all sorts, from thin multicolored versions to super-thick widths that deliver columns of colorblocking.

Bing Shopping | Black & white

The hottest current color combo is also the most basic – black and white is chic, timeless, and really easy to pull off. Simple yet sultry options include a crisp white linen tank and black denim shorts, or reverse the order with a sleeveless whisper-thin knit top in inky black and a pair of skinny white jeans.

Bing Shopping | Lace

The most feminine of all fabrics, lace is definitely having its moment in the sun. Designers are nutty for this airy delicacy and we’re seeing it everywhere for spring, so nabbing a cool lace shift dress now will be a great investment. (Hint – choose blue, red or green instead of the expected white.)

Bing Shopping | Emerald green

Pantone crowned this regal hue 2013’s color of the year, and it just happens to be bright and light enough to fit right in with your escape-to-warm-weather wardrobe. Skinny denim looks on-trend in this tint, and silky unembellished tunic tops are also sure to make others green with envy.

Bing Shopping | Tropical florals

Always an essential getaway item, this year the bathing suit goes back to nature. Sexy and exotic tropical floral prints decorate shapes ranging from cleverly camouflaging skirted suits to micro bikinis. Bandeau tops (complete with optional thin halter straps) are trending big for the beach (or anywhere sultry).

Bing Shopping | Cutouts

Although swimwear isn’t nearly as trend-dependent as other clothing categories, there are still seasonal fads. This year resort swimwear collections showed off a little extra air-conditioning with strategic cutouts on maillots and other one-piece bathing suits. (Just keep that sunscreen handy so you don’t end up with loco tan lines.)

Bing Shopping | Paisley

Part of a larger reimagining of the perennially popular boho trend, the paisley print looks particular cute on bathing suits. The most stylish examples are rendered in appropriately aquatic blues and greens, with a few daring acid orange and sunny yellow hues making those swirls swing.

Bing Shopping | Lace

Pair a ladylike fabric with abbreviated swimwear silhouettes and you’ve got the makings of some awesome poolside pulchritude. Lace shows up here (as it does in so much fashion this year) as delicate trim atop retro bandeaus, all-over embellishment on gorgeous one-piece suits, and as frills on skirted tankinis

Bing Shopping | Maxi dress cover-ups

When you’re finally ready to get off that beach towel or chaise lounge, drape yourself in something divinely diaphanous. Maxi-length cover-ups sometimes double as breezy dresses, depending on the fabrication. Stripes, tribal prints and tie-dye are hot motifs this season – look for them on ankle-grazing maxis for sand-to-supper versatility.

Bing Shopping | Caftans

The word “caftan” may conjure something straight out of “The Golden Girls,” but that’s if they’re too heavy, bulky and boring. Beach-right varieties are usually sheer chiffon concoctions, vividly colored, ideally knee-length to show off a little leg, with comfortably roomy kimono, batwing or dolman sleeves.