Dress Of The Day with Angela

Travellers have assorted needs. 1 Security.  Clothing and Luggage To avoid and prevent thieves. 2 Safety.  To guard against accidents and breakage. 3 Clothing & Health.  To avoid insects, mosquitos, food poisoning. 4 Sunscreen  To protect against too much sun. Close weave clothing. 1 Let's start with preventing theft. Warning sign from Ypsilon, taken in Tallinn, capital of Estonia.  1 Pickpocketproof clothing comes from the USA. It features dummy pockets and concealed pockets. Their blog has stories of customers who have foiled would be pickpockets. Their best seller seems to be the pants for men. for ladies there are simple dresses and short skirts. Not much variety of styles and colours. Except for the men's shirts. Two or three muted colours. But perhaps on a train overseas you don't want to attract attention or to look overdressed. The items are also quick overnight dry so you don't always need a second one whilst the first one is drying out. 1 Look for ...

Angela with pomegranate juice, wearing the orange Craghoppers shirt in Cyprus. Photo by Trevor Sharot. The jolly, practical shirt I wore day after day on my hiking holiday was from Craghoppers. In a cheerful orange.  Although practical, also pretty, stylish. Two styles of wearing the collar, up and down. Tab shirt so you could wear sleeves above the elbow, or fully down for more elegant evening, in air conditioning. Also handy for entering a religious building with a dress code such as a mosque (as we did in Cyprus). Washing The item comes with two tabs to hang it up to drip dry. No need for a hanger. A hook will do. Or hang it from the hook of a hanger on which you have another item. I could wash out the collar and cuffs overnight. Even the whole thing if you take it off at 4 pm after your 5 hour hike, and wash and dry it partially in a towel. (Or you could use the room hair dryer - but I am cautious with synthetics, not wanting to turn them back into solid plastic.) The shirt has...