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The ideal travelling jacket has outside pockets for quick access to unimportant or not valuable items such as handkerchieves and combs, but secure inner pockets for money and credit cards and identity cards or passports.
If you don't have the time or money, some inexpensive items can be bought new or second hand. Search for photographer's jacket, fishing jacket, travelling jacket and pockets. Other words such as gilet may bring up more results. I check Amazon, Ebay, Pick pocet proof clothing.
You can also find belts with pockets at camping shops and ski and outdoor wear shops.
If the clothes you order on line have pockets which are not secure, or you have clothes which you love, but want to add security, here are some options.
1 Wear a belt with a zip compartment under your jacket.
2 Make a belt with a zip. Cut a wide hem off a long dress or old coat or old coat or jacket lining. fold it horizontally and before seaming it up, add a zip in the middle.
3 Secure all the pockets on all garments you intend to wear whilst travlling and clothes you are packing to wear at the destination.
When buying bags and tote bags, look for zips and press studs or Velcro (touch and loop closure).
Inserting a zip is easy. Decide where you want the pull part to be and pin or safety pin that in place. Decide if you want the zip visible or hidden half an inch inside. Sew down both sides of the zip. Secure the end by sewing across.
No time? No Zip?
Use a small zipped fabric toiletry bag. One you already own or buy a cheap zipped bag. Sew it inside a tote bag. Remove the inner pockets from a garment you were throwing away and keep them in a sewing box and add them to your travel garments.
Do you have a garment with false zips, ones which actually work but have no pockets behind them? Add a pocket behind. The simplest pocket is just a square sewn up on three sides.
Useful Websites
amazon
ebay
pickpocketproof clothing
https://www.facebook.com/ClothingArts
https://www.clothingarts.com/
About the author
Angela Lansbury is a travel writer and photographer.
When buying bags and tote bags, look for zips and press studs or Velcro (touch and loop closure).
Inserting a zip is easy. Decide where you want the pull part to be and pin or safety pin that in place. Decide if you want the zip visible or hidden half an inch inside. Sew down both sides of the zip. Secure the end by sewing across.
No time? No Zip?
Use a small zipped fabric toiletry bag. One you already own or buy a cheap zipped bag. Sew it inside a tote bag. Remove the inner pockets from a garment you were throwing away and keep them in a sewing box and add them to your travel garments.
Do you have a garment with false zips, ones which actually work but have no pockets behind them? Add a pocket behind. The simplest pocket is just a square sewn up on three sides.
Useful Websites
amazon
ebay
pickpocketproof clothing
https://www.facebook.com/ClothingArts
https://www.clothingarts.com/
About the author
Angela Lansbury is a travel writer and photographer.
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