Travel Clothing Guides

Everything we know about dressing from a carry-on: the system, the individual decisions, and the trade-offs nobody mentions when they are selling you something.

This is the starting point. If you read one thing, read the pillar; the rest of the site expands on pieces of it.

Start here

• The Practical Travel Wardrobe: how to dress from a carry-on for almost any climate, in nine to twelve garments.

The decisions

• Packable vs structured travel jackets: what you give up to make a jacket fold small, and when that trade is wrong.
• What to do when you are between two jacket sizes: the layering allowance, and why outer layers size up.
• Merino vs synthetic base layers: odour resistance against drying speed.

The other clusters

• Comparison and materials: softshell against hardshell, and how to read a spec sheet.
• Destination and season: the system applied to specific climates.
• Care and problem solving: washing, reproofing, sizing.
• Commuting: the daily version, mostly on a bike.
• Glossary: the terms, defined once.

Our own data

• Lab test results: the SGS reports behind our performance claims, including what was not tested.
• Our Kickstarter campaigns: four campaigns, one of which failed, and where our backers are.

The products these guides refer to

• VEAR Jacket: the uninsulated shell.
• VEAR Pants: full-length-opening over-trousers.
• VEAR Winter Jacket: insulation and shell combined, for cold trips.
• All products.