Have Style, Will Travel

Who Needs Dinner

...when there's high tea? British traditions and a brilliant jacquard shift (Piazza Sempione, $965) make for a sophisticated afternoon. The opulent Victorian setting of Cape Town's gracious Table Bay Hotel—marble fireplaces, gilt mirrors, old-school ship paintings—demands a dress; like this one, shaped enough to be stylish but sufficiently loose to permit an extra cream puff. Earrings, By Boe. Bracelet, O Oscar. Sandals, Anya Hindmarch.