https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/travel-wear---thoughts-and-an-article Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:53:35 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/travel-wear---thoughts-and-an-article#post-2015026 Sun, 24 Mar 2019 23:51:14 +0000 Anonymous 2015026@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yet another vote for ponte pants. On top I wear layers to remove or add to for temperature comfort after being on a transAtlantic summer flight without working airconditioning or heating. I have been bumped to business or first class seating more than once, probably because I dressed like I belonged there.<br /> Thank you for the interesting article. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/travel-wear---thoughts-and-an-article#post-2015021 Sun, 24 Mar 2019 23:30:21 +0000 Cee 2015021@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The last flight I was on I wore a lightweight turtleneck sweater and jeans and I was fine </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/travel-wear---thoughts-and-an-article#post-2014876 Sun, 24 Mar 2019 13:25:34 +0000 Bijou 2014876@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks for this article, it makes for an interesting read, how times have changed! I like to wear jeans, shirt and jacket on a plane, with a scarf. I find the air-con gets cold once up in the air, so no matter what the temps are at my destination, I am usually dressed in layers so that I don't freeze or overheat. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/travel-wear---thoughts-and-an-article#post-2014839 Sun, 24 Mar 2019 06:42:30 +0000 rachylou 2014839@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hmm. Well, I’m a fan of the elastic waist for airplanes. And thermals and a warm sweater. And tbh, I live in leggings. But I have to say, I’m pretty sure thoughtfully styled leggings will not bring the glory days of travel back. Flying is just not the glamorous experience it once was. Starting with the security line and ending with the disappearance of porters...</p> <p>Oh. Ok. Was that too harsh? Eeeep! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/travel-wear---thoughts-and-an-article#post-2014837 Sun, 24 Mar 2019 05:25:28 +0000 featherwitch 2014837@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Those Athleta pants are nothing short of amazing. I bought a pair in red, and haven't looked back.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/travel-wear---thoughts-and-an-article#post-2014776 Sun, 24 Mar 2019 01:20:02 +0000 Jaime 2014776@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I fly long distance 1-2 times a year, often stopping in Europe, and have seen it all. I like to wear comfortable jeans and layers because I am almost always cold on flights. I like looking at how people dress and find sweats boring, but the world does not revolve around me apparently . </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/travel-wear---thoughts-and-an-article#post-2014769 Sun, 24 Mar 2019 00:14:26 +0000 Molly Mac 2014769@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I fly a lot and have a travel uniform of sorts. I wear a tank top under a long sleeve black or white Madewell tshirt. My topper is a white Gap blazer with grey pin stripes that is made of sweat shirt material. It is structured but super comfy. I have a magical pair of black Athleta pants that look like cigarette pants but are made of some wonderful tech fabric. They have a waist that looks like a real waist but feels like elastic. I literally wear them both hiking and to business meetings. I<br /> wear my black Adidas Ultraboost X by Stella McCartney sneakers and add a scarf for chilly airports and planes. I feel polished AND comfortable whether my flight is an hour or overnight. I find having a travel uniform is one less thing I have to worry about when navigating the chaos that is travel. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/travel-wear---thoughts-and-an-article#post-2014765 Sat, 23 Mar 2019 23:38:35 +0000 Sal 2014765@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Good article!</p> <p>I think a comfortable bra knickers and socks are number one. I have worn jeans, soft pants or a dress - flat shoes, and a scarf is a good idea.</p> <p>Shoes are difficult and I can see how you could get to 5 pairs Lisa- I am struggling to choose 3 and might go with four!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/travel-wear---thoughts-and-an-article#post-2014752 Sat, 23 Mar 2019 23:10:10 +0000 Gretchen 2014752@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Another vote for ponte pants, especially for long flights. </p> <p>For shorter flights, I’ll usually go w jeans, knit top, either blazer or cardigan, scarf and flats. </p> <p>Longer flights, ponte pants, knit top, either tunic or cardigan, scarf and flats. Ponte pants also make it easier to put on compression socks after takeoff. </p> <p>My assumption always is to plan that I won’t have time to change before the first event at my destination. Could I attend that (meeting, sightseeing destination) without embarrassment given what I’m wearing? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/travel-wear---thoughts-and-an-article#post-2014637 Sat, 23 Mar 2019 15:15:49 +0000 JAileen 2014637@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>On most flight I’ll wear clothes I’ll be wearing on the rest of the trip. If it’s a birding trip, I’ll be wearing casual outdoor clothes. I’ve never worn leggings on a plane.</p> <p>Fairly recently we were on a flight and I noticed a well dressed couple. They weren’t super dressy, but very elegant. They turned out to be French... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/travel-wear---thoughts-and-an-article#post-2014635 Sat, 23 Mar 2019 14:46:36 +0000 Barbara Diane 2014635@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>OMG Gail, that’s a lot of problematic flights.<br /> I wear ponte pants and layers. Scarves too. I would love to find slip-ons that stayed on my feet. I am often too hot so a lightweight first layer. Recently I was on a flight that was so cold I froze in all my normal layers, that was a first. And as the flight was a bit turbulent I couldn’t get my heavy coat out of the overhead compartment. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/travel-wear---thoughts-and-an-article#post-2014633 Sat, 23 Mar 2019 14:13:49 +0000 nemosmom 2014633@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks for the funny article! The airport is a great place for people watching.... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/travel-wear---thoughts-and-an-article#post-2014628 Sat, 23 Mar 2019 14:08:23 +0000 Gail 2014628@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I used to travel back and forth to London from New York at least 4 times a year to visit my Mum. I saw some very strange outfits &nbsp;and saw waaaaay too many thongs poking out of leggings and jeans that's for sure lol. I used to wear skinny ponte pants with a long tunic top, sleeveless long vest, scarf and booties. One time it was so cold I even pulled out my hat and gloves! I have to be comfy although several times anxiety got in my way. Runaway incursion, fuel leak &nbsp;and electrical fire on the plane !! Not all on one flight thank goodness. My deodorant was working overtime! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/travel-wear---thoughts-and-an-article#post-2014614 Sat, 23 Mar 2019 13:49:24 +0000 Angie 2014614@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I do a lot of travel too, and HIGH FIVE everything you said. <b>Lisa</b>. As for taking 5 pairs of shoes - why not! Our feet are the most important thing to take care of when we travel. Silly FB comments.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/travel-wear---thoughts-and-an-article#post-2014596 Sat, 23 Mar 2019 13:03:36 +0000 Anonymous 2014596@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yep, always ponte pants for me too, if travelling in winter! Aside from the comfort, there's the need for quick on off when going to the loo (with 18 people standing in line behind you). </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/travel-wear---thoughts-and-an-article#post-2014593 Sat, 23 Mar 2019 12:51:48 +0000 unfrumped 2014593@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Fun article!<br /> I am on the lookout for some hybrid pants. I do like “ upgraded track pants “ looks and Pinterest trousers.<br /> What I especially like is deep pockets and maybe even zip. I like to carry a small travel wallet for ID and some cash in my pants pocket, but jean pockets have become small and unreliable. The right pants would be wearable on weekend hospital work as well and for car trips and weekend errands, so would not be airplane- only.<br /> There is an Athleta store here- I’ve never tried anything on but have it on my list. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/travel-wear---thoughts-and-an-article#post-2014585 Sat, 23 Mar 2019 12:28:40 +0000 kkards 2014585@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>generally when i travel it's short trips, so jeans and layers on top, always with some kind of scarf or shawl...for overnighters, i cheat, jeans to the airport and then just before takeoff, i change into sweats or leggings....back when i traveled for work, ponte pants were the best! looked professional, yet were comfy and easy.... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/travel-wear---thoughts-and-an-article#post-2014580 Sat, 23 Mar 2019 12:18:41 +0000 ChristelJ 2014580@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Airplane travel has become such an ordeal; it's fun to see how people in airports dress for their particular versions of comfort. Some in near pajamas, others in heels and cashmere. Would have loved to see the unicorn onesie!<br /> I travel in ponte pants, which seem to combine stretch and structure in just the right amounts. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/travel-wear---thoughts-and-an-article#post-2014578 Sat, 23 Mar 2019 12:16:41 +0000 Janet 2014578@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks for sharing that, and welcome back home! I’m one of those people who is dismayed by how overly casual travel wear has become — I still see way too many pajamas at the airport. </p> <p>Stretchy jeans and the Athleta pants mentioned in the article are my solution. Slip-on shoes or sneakers, knit tee, a light jacket, and most of all, a lightweight but cozy scarf, complete the airport capsule. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/travel-wear---thoughts-and-an-article#post-2014575 Sat, 23 Mar 2019 12:05:18 +0000 Carla 2014575@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I don't like binding clothing IRL, so have no problem putting together a decent travel outfit. I like to 'dress up' for travel and even wear white jeans without any problems. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/travel-wear---thoughts-and-an-article#post-2014571 Sat, 23 Mar 2019 11:30:48 +0000 Anonymous 2014571@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Fun post. &nbsp;Thank you.</p> <p>I am planning a trip in April. &nbsp;I took advantage of the free try-on of two different pant styles from Paskho. &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/travel-wear---thoughts-and-an-article#post-2014560 Sat, 23 Mar 2019 10:33:22 +0000 UmmLila (Lisa) 2014560@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p><b></b></p> <p><b>Below is an article from the Wall Street Journal on travel/ airplane dressing — a topic that seems to come up frequently. I just returned from an 11 day trip and did not bring any travel-specific clothing with me. </b></p> <p><b></b></p> <p><b>On airplanes, I usually wear jeans — but jeans with a lot of stretch, and then a somewhat decent looking jacket so that I don’t feel too informal, along with other appropriate layers. I am always surprised (as in the article below) that people travel wearing leggings as pants. </b></p> <p><b></b></p> <p><b>Also, travel wise I am the sort of person who finds public transportation inherently kind of dirty, so I hate to wear the travel outfit again without washing it.</b></p> <p><b></b></p> <p><b>And I’m going to die when my Bing boots wear out since they seem to work for everything except climbing the cobbled streets to the Alhambra. I took a lot of flak for bringing five pairs of shoes in facebook comments on my travel capsule. I wore all of them — but the sneakers only once. Go figure.</b></p> <p><b></b></p> <p><b></b></p> <p><b>The New Rules for Airplane Dressing: Chic, Yet Comfortable</b></p> <p>Like it or not, the modern travel uniform has become deeply casual. How to hack it so you’re presentable but still feel good.</p> <p><b>WHILE IN</b> Manhattan this February for her baby shower, the newish Duchess of Sussex left her hotel wearing a markedly plebeian outfit: black leggings, Adidas running shoes and a black baseball cap. Despite appearances, Meghan Markle was not headed to the gym; she was en route to the airport. (By contrast, Princess Diana almost always wore heels to the airport in the 1980s, typically with skirt suits and stockings.) Considering that royals are among the last holdouts of etiquette and glamour, the Duchess’s outfit seemed to confirm an unstylish truth: We now dress for air travel as indifferently as we would to step on a treadmill in our basement gyms.</p> <p>Ms. Markle is just the latest celebrity flier whose transatlantic athleisure ensembles are feverishly chronicled in the tabloids. Photos of sweatsuit-clad newlyweds Hailey and Justin Bieber at international airports practically comprise their own genre. While mere mortals typically make little more effort, how casual is too casual? In the Great Leggings Debate of 2017, two teenagers were kicked off a United flight for wearing leggings; the ensuing public debate made it clear that travelers are split on whether the craving for midair comfort justifies any manner of dress.</p> <p>If you’re traveling for business—or pleasure—and still aspire to arrive at your destination looking presentable, here’s the good news: Thanks to advances in fabric technology (and some styling tricks), it’s possible to fly comfortably without stooping to sloppiness. There is a middle ground between dressing like a mid-workout Rocky Balboa and dressing to the nines a la Lady Di. A new wave of brands such as Paskho, Époque Évolution and Anatomie are creating clothes for travel that combine the benefits of sportswear—elastic waists, wrinkle-resistant/sweat-wicking/odor-eating fabrics—with neat, stylish cuts. “We’re living for speed and comfort, and clothes need to follow that pace,” said Isabelle Alix, the co-founder of Offtrack, a new line of direct-to-consumer suede and leather leggings that attempts to ennoble the yoga-pant lifestyle.</p> <p>Lizzy Brockhoff, 35, a co-founder of Masse, a peer-to-peer product-recommendation app that covers everything from books to beauty products to ballet flats, said that many of the most popular questions on the app are travel-related. “Users are looking for comfortable clothes for travel, and the majority of the recommendations received are comfy-yet-stylish athleisure options,” she said. Ms. Brockhoff, who travels frequently between New York and San Francisco, dresses for travel more casually after spending time on the West Coast, where “women basically live in athleisure.”</p> <p>While she flew home to Australia in four-inch heels a few years ago, she now opts for leggings with an Alo Yoga turtleneck, a black overcoat and white sneakers. The look is sleek and certainly polished enough for business travel, but even so, she said she wouldn’t wear it to work.</p> <p>If you truly need to exit a plane only to enter a board meeting, you might take your cues from Alex Williamson, 31, the Austin, Texas-based chief brand officer for women-led dating app Bumble, who espouses a travel/work outfit of high-waisted, stretch jeans from brands like Frame or Ayr paired with a Veronica Beard blazer with built-in hoodie. The hood allows her to sleep cozily in the plane, while the blazer and polished jeans look more spiffy than a more Lycra-reliant ensemble. Which is not to say Ms. Williamson is immune to the charms of stretch: When there’s no meeting on the horizon she layers a hoodie over black Outdoor Voices leggings and Stan Smith or Golden Goose sneakers.</p> <p>As Ms. Brockoff and Ms. Williamson’s strategies demonstrate, the hotly debated legging, when thoughtfully styled, can yield an outfit that’s pulled together yet comfortable enough to let you endure so-called “leg room.” Many travel-focused labels are innovating when it comes to pants, no surprise given the deep discomfort of sitting through a long-haul flight in anything with a waistband.</p> <p>To target travelers, brands are coining style names like the Wander Pant, a slim cut from Athleta, or the Jet Set trouser, which Époque Évolution bills as “made for comfort on that red-eye flight, and for style at that 9 a.m. after you land.” Along with stretchy-yet-sophisticated standbys like the Row’s scuba Thilde Pant, these options aim to fill the gap between a legging and a trouser.</p> <p><b>‘Thoughtfully styled, leggings can yield an outfit that’s comfortable yet pulled together.’</b></p> <p>Designer and frequent flier Patrick Robinson, who once traveled in uncomfortable jeans, hated arriving at his Paris hotel looking like “an American slob.” As he put it, “people want more comfort, but they still want to look good.” So, in 2016, the former executive vice president of design world-wide at the Gap created Paskho—a line of minimalist travel separates made from techy fabrics—to offer an alternative to leggings, not to mention jeans. His wife, Vogue fashion director Virginia Smith, travels to Europe in the company’s Escape pants, a wide-legged option. Like the brand’s cropped Sanctuary pants, they look more like trousers than sweatpants but are made of spill-resistant and breathable nylon and elastane.</p> <p>If you resist the idea of travel-specific clothing that’s geekily techy and athleisure-adjacent, consider one of the many luxe alternatives. New York designer Gabriela Hearst makes a version of sweatpants rendered in ribbed cashmere and cut as crisply as fine trousers with a price tag to match. French house Chloé could supply you with a cashmere track pant and matching roll-neck sweater, and knitwear designer Ryan Roche offers a cashmere pant with a wide, cropped shape that’s suitable for more than just lolling about. London-based stylist Francesca Burns, 37, wears Pringle’s cashmere and wool tracksuit for trips overseas, paired with a Balenciaga puffer coat that “doubles as a sleeping bag.”</p> <p>Athletic clothing has flourished at the airport for good reason. “I always joke that travel is a sport, so I dress accordingly,” said travel expert Brian Kelly, of the popular website the Points Guy. “I feel like I’m always getting a workout in the airport,” he continued. “No one likes running in Chelsea boots.” Mr. Kelly, 36, recommends being comfortable but keeping the realities of an airplane in mind: Make sure your top is on the longer side to avoid midflight mooning; and in ever-shrinking economy seats, where you’re likely to be touching shoulders with your seatmate, wear sleeves.</p> <p>However, Mr. Kelly, who will fly 250,000 miles this year, doesn’t buy the theory that dressing up for air travel will ingratiate you with benevolent airline employees and get you boosted to business class. “The best way to get upgraded is to be nice,” he said. “That’s much more important than looking nice.”</p> </p> <p><b>‘It’s Just Insane’</b></p> <p>A New York-based flight attendant and style blogger, <b>Lisa Williams</b>, recounts the most memorable outfits she’s seen</p> <p><b>The Most Infantile</b></p> <p>“A unicorn onesie with a horn at the top. If you’re going to do a onesie, why not stand out from the bunch?”</p> <p><b>The Least Clothed</b></p> <p>“We were traveling in the middle of summer, and I see a woman come on the plane with a white tank top and extremely cut-off shorts. I get it. It’s hot, and you want to be comfortable. But airports are still cold, the A/C’s high, the two butt-cheeks are hanging out, but you have no cardigan and no sweater to cover yourself, and it’s just insane.”</p> <p><b>The Most Blinding</b></p> <p>“I saw this guy in a lime-green Adidas tracksuit. Imagine you’re in a sea of people, and the one thing you see is a lime-green thing. You look over and you’re like, ‘That looks like a highlighter.’”</p> <p><b>...And One Decent One</b></p> <p>“On a flight from Milan going to JFK, there was a woman with this gorgeous, long, wool, belted wrap coat, with a black crew-neck shirt underneath, skinny blue jeans and plain black loafers. She had a very tiny Chanel bag, cross-body. Simple and effortless with a small messy bun at the top, a couple of magazines in her hand.”</p> </p>