How To Travel Light With Co-ordinated and Reversible Clothes

Angela Lansbury wearing a reversible dress, black or red. Worn with a jacket for zoom. Photo by Trevor Sharot.

Do you find it challenging to fit everything you want into a bag that's small enough to carry?

In my heyday I was a travel writer constantly going on press trips at short notice and had to drag my suitcase on and off trains. We had trips around the USA staying in a different city every night.

I used to travel with a colour co-ordinated scheme. A black skirt for evenings, with three different tops and three different scarves. Red, white and black. Red, white, black, gold scarves.

I was often given a free tee shirt to take home or bought one at the destination.

Since I never throw anything away, now that I am semi-retired I have a large number of clothes.

On Facebook.I have worn more than 20 outfits which I have called dresses.

They are not all dresses. I did a count. I have about 150 outfits, if you include day dresses, evening dresses, beach dresses.

However, they are not all dresses. If you have a four piece combination of two tops with trousers and skirts, you have 2 pairs of outfits but can make 4 combinations. With four, you get 16, and from 5 you get 25.

I ran to a statistician and he saw at once that this is squared. So to get 150 outfits I need only 13 sets of tops and bottoms which co-ordinate with all the others. Add a jacket, or hat, or shoes, or umbrella, so you have three items, and you need only six triple outfits.

I buy reversible dresses, skirts and jackets. I can also wear t-shirts and dresses back to front, and some silk-lined jackets inside out. You have to remove the labels

. In this picture I am wearing a reversible red dress which has black the other side, with a red spagetti strap top and matching jacket.

I am tired of having to match up clothes. So I am wearing long skirts and beach wraps with a black or white tee-shirt, then converting the skirt into a dress

Convertible clothes
.I also bought a sarong in Hawaii which is supposed to make about 10 outfits. And a multi-way dress from Avon which supposedly makes several outfits, but required a wearer with stick figure and a lot of safety pins to be sure I didn't unravel on the dance floor.

Useful Websites
Ebay
Etsy
Catalogues

Useful Websites
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2020/07/how-to-convert-beach-sarong-or-wrap.html
https://www.lulu.com/en/gb/shop/angela-lansbury/quick-quotations/paperback/product-1rejp7p8.html
https://www.ebay.com/itm/2-in-1-Women-Pockets-Scarf-Convertible-Journey-Winter-Infinity-Scarf-
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Convertible-Scarf-With-Hidden-Zipper-Pockets-Bandana-Headscarf-Wool-Neckerchief
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Womens-Evening-Convertible-Multi-Dress-Way-Wrap-Bridesmaid-Formal-Long-Dresses
Reversible t-shirt, tunic, dress and coat - discount offer on sign up
https://www.simplybe.com/en-sg/ (switched to your country, whichever you choose to type)
Freemans reversible wrap dress, frequently on sale at end of season, as it is now in July 2020, plus discounts for first order
https://www.freemans.com/products/joe-browns-reversible-wrap-dress/
Dearer - is it the same dress or different fabric, or does one include postage in the dress price and does the other seller add postage later?

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Travel writer and photogrpaher Angela Lansbury. See my books such as Quick Quotations on Amazon and lulu.com
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