Packing neutral, high-quality pieces while travelling has many, many advantages. You can create a million looks because everything goes with everything. A capsule wardrobe is the most practical and versatile way to travel.
Plus, you are guaranteed to look fashionable because it’s pretty much impossible to go wrong with styling these. However, the biggest and most important pro of packing neutral, high-quality pieces is that everything can now fit in a cabin bag. To each their own, but I find that packing light is the most liberating and the most intelligent thing to do.
But let’s make a case for it:
- 1.4 million bags were lost in the check-in process last year. Even if they aren’t lost, they’re often delayed or accidentally left behind or sent off to another destination. By packing everything into your cabin bag, you save yourself this stress and potentially land up in a country with 0 clothes.
- There’s nothing worse than landing in a beautiful new city, after a long-haul flight and spending your first 30 minutes at baggage claim waiting for your big fat bag.
- Instead of having to lug around a big fat heavy bag, an easy cabin bag allows you to move around easily, find cabs, hop on to a metro and climb up the steps of the Pinterest-y European hostels that quite often- don’t have lift!
- Taking capsule pieces means everything gets worn and you don’t end up coming back with the same clothes you had taken.
However, we understand it’s not for everyone. If you’re into bold colours, and lots of prints a capsule wardrobe might bore you. If you want lots of outfits and different looks for each day, that are entirely different from each other and Emily from Emily in Paris is your Paris inspiration- then it’s not for you.
It’s for the people who like more classic, timeless silhouettes, who like simple clothes and don’t mind repeating them or doing one load of laundry.
Given that I’m obsessed with the way freshly laundered clothes smell, and feel I don’t mind it at all.