Info about Bags
Packing
If you are travelling by air, your cases need to be lightweight since the amount of luggage you can take is strictly limited. For those last-minute items, or overnight requirements if you are breaking the journey, travel grips are ideal. Check that zip openings are good and wide for easy packing.
Choose clothes that are in crease-resistant fabrics-—Crimplene, Terylene, Terylene and cotton mixtures, Acrilan, Courtelle and Trevira fabrics. Wool is good too. Since creases will drop out if the garment is left to hang for a few hours after you unpack it.
Many creases can be avoided by careful packing. Use tissues or tissue paper to pad folds, and pack heavy garments as flat as possible. Plan your basics around two or three colors at the most, and see that everything you take along will mix or match. For instance, your cardigan should team with slacks, skirts and dresses; little tops should team with a suit or slacks.
Keep accessories to a minimum. Shoes and handbags are heavy and cumbersome, so select a basic color rather than try to match up to each outfit.
Conserve space. Fill the toes of shoes with jewellery wrapped in tissues; slip small items that cannot be crushed down the sides and corners to stabilize you’re packing. The less the contents move around, the less creased everything will be.
If you have to go through Customs, leave a list of the contents just inside each case. Such a list is also helpful in locating items on an overnight stay, or making a last-minute check as to whether a certain item has been included or not.
• PACKING ORDER:
• Pack heavy items such as shoes, brushes, and bottles (wrapped in plastic bags for safety) at the bottom of your case.
• Heavy garments and woolens. Always fold as flat as possible, and cover collars with tissue paper, Pleated skirts are the exception. They travel best rolled length-ways and pulled into a nylon stocking that has the foot cut off, and then placed down the side of a suitcase without further folding.
• Undies should be packed next.
• Silk and cotton dresses should be packed last, interleaved with tissue paper and covered over with tissue paper before the lid of the case is closed.