Travel Wardrobe Tips Part 4: Travel Accessories that Will Streamline Your Trip

The extra pieces that make a big difference.

Does it feel overwhelming to pack for your trip?

Do you arrive at your destination and feel like you always forget something?

Would you love a simple, streamlined, and confident approach to traveling?

Let’s talk Accessories – keeping your travel pieces organized as well you looking good.

My 5 Best Accessory Tips:

1. ·       A great tote for taking on the plane

2. ·       Backpack

3. ·       Phone Organizer Crossbody Bag

4. ·       Jewelry organizer to keep you polished and put-together

5. ·       Wrap

P.S. Whenever you're ready… here are 3 ways I can help you Dress with Ease:

1. Join other like-minded successful smart women in my Style with Significance Facebook Group! This is a place to share ideas, get advice, and meet others who value looking as good as they feel!

2. Capture my BEST style strategies that include secrets to honoring your inner beauty, to what style basics are a must, to creating a color wardrobe capsule – 7 Secrets to Dressing with Ease and Style!

3. Work with me PRIVATELY to take you from questioning your clothing choices to creating a signature look that is uniquely you. Schedule a 30-minute Get Dressed with Ease session to share a little about your image challenges and what you’re envisioning for yourself, and we’ll devise a strategy, so you are ‘stepping into your excellence’ and dressing with ease. https://www.annettebond.com/contact

Part 2 How to Pack Your Suitcase and Lose the Wrinkles

Part 2 of a 5 Part Series: Travel Wardrobe Tips

Wrinkling is always an issue when you’re cramming your suitcase full of clothes.

Are you someone who irons or steams all your pieces before putting them in the suitcase and only to arrive at your destination and it looks like you never touched them?

I have. A lot of wasted time, right?

So how do you navigate this?

1.       Think about travel fabrics. Synthetic fabrics like polyester or polyamide are more wrinkle resistant than natural fabrics like cotton or linen.

2.       Microfibers are also great wrinkle resistant as well as light weight and comfortable.

3.       Prints show less wrinkles than solids.

Plastic garment bags from your local dry cleaners.

Use plastic bags to hang quality clothing pieces that you want protected from wrinkles. If you’ve never tried this before, it works like magic.

Roll your clothes. Not only helps with wrinkling but saves room in your suitcase.

If you are a Marie Kondo fan, use her folding technique in your suitcase just like you do at home

And last, a travel steamer. They are small and convenient. And a must with cotton fabrics.

P.S. Whenever you're ready… here are 4 ways I can help you Dress with Ease:

1. Join my upcoming Style Strategy and Confidence Masterclass. Wednesday, August 25th @ 1pm PST. You will be learning strategies to Confidently get dressed with ease, look the part, and be the real you. Also, what it looks like to use your clothing as a communication tool to Get Noticed and attract new opportunities. And last, how to elevate your wardrobe, be On-Brand while stepping into your excellence.

2. Join other like-minded successful smart women in my Style with Significance Facebook Group! This is a place to share ideas, get advice, and meet others who value looking as good as they feel!

3. Capture my BEST style strategies that include secrets to honoring your inner beauty, to what style basics are a must, to creating a color wardrobe capsule – 7 Secrets to Dressing with Ease and Style!

4. Work with me PRIVATELY to take you from questioning your clothing choices to creating a signature look that is uniquely you. Schedule a 30-minute Get Dressed with Ease session to share a little about your image challenges and what you’re envisioning for yourself, and we’ll devise a strategy, so you are ‘stepping into your excellence’ and dressing with ease. https://www.annettebond.com/contact

Stress-Free Summer Packing Exists!

There’s hardly anything more stressful than packing for a trip. You’ve probably had your own nightmare experience whether its forgetting the most important outfit for your business trip (the complete outfit is hanging in your closet 3,000 miles away) or you forgot your makeup bag on the bathroom counter. Or maybe the new shoes you purchased for the trip have left you with blisters on Day One. It’s time to adopt a new plan for packing! Start with a timetable and work your way up to the big day.

Here are some pre-departure tips to help you

14 Days Out

Although your trip seems far in the future, it’s time to start prepping now! 

Try on and write up or take pictures of all the pieces in your highest impact outfits. What are high impact outfits? They’re the outfits that are the most important outfits you’ll be wearing on the trip. Attending a wedding? Interviewing for a job? You know which days or nights mean the most to you so be sure you create those outfits early. This way you’ll have time to purchase any components that might be missing.

Do you take prescription drugs? Check the refills now. Your pharmacist will help you stock up so you won’t miss any days.

12 Days Out

Investigate the condition of your outfit pieces by looking closely at each clothing article. 

Finalize your high impact outfits and check closely to see if any articles need repair, alterations, or cleaning.

10 days Out

Start brainstorming your low to medium impact outfits. 

These are the outfits you’ll wear on day trips, visiting museums, going to the beach, socializing with friends, relatives, having casual dinners out. Try on the different possibilities and be sure to include the accessories. Let these possible combinations simmer for a couple of days in a section of your closet. That way you can mull over your outfit ideas without feeling rushed.

7 days Out

You can start creating your non-weather related pre-packs.

Some items can be packed right now. Consider gathering up your panties and bras now and packing them in a small travel bag. Nightgowns or pajamas and anything you use just before bed can be packed in a small travel bag. Do you have a favorite lip balm you apply at night? Do you wear earplugs or eye-shades? Designate a travel pack for just these items. When you get to your destination, you just pull out this nighttime pack and you could be asleep in five minutes!

 

Make another pre-pack for your workout gear if this is included in your itinerary.

Count out your daily vitamins and/or medications and put them in mini-plastic pouches for each day of your trip. You’ll feel so good taking care of this ahead of time.

Your toiletries and hair products can be pre-packed now too and placed in your suitcase. A benefit of having an extra set of makeup is that you can pack this early and avoid any panic about forgetting a most important product.

5 days Out

Your anxiety might be presenting itself. Keep calm and get more of your packing prepped. 

Check the weather at your destination. Now you have a clearer idea about the forecast and how it will affect your wardrobe. However, always pack a couple of pieces of clothing for each extreme weather possibility. That could mean a pair of shorts and a long-sleeved sweater.

Since you already planned out your high impact outfit ideas on Day 14, time to put them together completely. Check to be sure you have the accessories for each outfit.

Make the final edits of your travel wardrobe for your low to medium impact outfits. Do laundry if needed. Plan your actual “day-of” travel outfit.

1 Day Out

Don’t worry, you’re ready for this day. Time to fit it all into your suitcase and get some good night sleep, stress-free.

 Make yourself a note of anything that needs to be put into the suitcase just before you leave. This could include a curling iron, makeup, and makeup tools.

Have your travel outfit laid out and ready to go, especially for those early morning flights.

Need more simplifying?

Let me help you. I've packed my clients for many different destinations and occasions. They love how simplified their packing experience becomes. You could be the calmest customer in the security line on your next trip!