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Bon Voyage to Wrinkles: Ten Easy Rules for Perfect Packing
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13144 |
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LIFE
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11 / 1987 |
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Adrianne Marcus
Adrianne Marcus has published in Food & Wine, Menus, Travel &
Leisure, Good Food, Cooking Light, and other magazines. |
The last time I left London I was wearing three coats: the one I bought, the one I brought, and the one that wouldn't fit in my luggage. I had learned the traveler's lesson: Clothing expands and luggage shrinks.
At that precise moment I vowed that no matter how good a bargain I might find, if it didn't fit into my luggage or it couldn't be shipped, I wouldn't buy it. This vow embellished an earlier pledge: to take only as many pieces as I could carry.
Of course my pledge hadn't prevented me from overpacking. Upon arriving I opened a suitcase of wrinkles; it looked as if King Kong had danced on my clothing. At that moment I determined I would revise the roll-toss-and-pray school of packing I practiced and learn the how and why of scientific packing.
It doesn't matter who you are: a corporate executive capable of million-dollar decisions; a parent attempting to pack the children's entire wardrobe; or a professional traveler. Everyone comes to that moment when you stand there, clothing heaped about you, paralyzed by indecision: what shall I take or leave behind? Will the weather change? Will I need casual or dressy clothes? Did I pack enough?
Finally, you know what you're going to take, but the question now is how to shoehorn it in. So you roll, toss and pray it will arrive on the luggage carousel intact, even though the contents will resemble nothing a human being could wear.
When I got home, I unraveled myself from my cocoon of coats and called Myron and Kari Glaser of Glaser Designs. I own three pieces of their luggage and have traveled for over two years with them. The luggage had two pluses: it holds a lot and the airlines haven't been able to destroy it. And believe me, they've tried.
Avoid wrinkles
Deep in my heart I realized the problem wasn't that the luggage couldn't hold my coats, it was my packing. Over the years, I have owned enough luggage to qualify as a luggage consumer reporter. Soft sides, firm sides, cloth, leather, even a grim assortment of cardboard boxes have held the pieces of my travel life. Not one has ever been exactly the right piece. I dream of luggage that carries my clothing though to its exact, unwrinkled conclusion. So I asked the crucial question: "Myron, how do you pack the perfect piece of
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