If you want to learn how to dress for travel for a short vacation, it is important to start by packing light. This means only a few essentials should accompany you. The luggage should preferably be small with wheels with enough compartments to hold toiletries, night clothes, shoes, and daytime clothing.
If you are an avid reader and can’t go without your nightly reading sessions, then mail your favorite books ahead so you don’t have to pack them, or you can wait until you arrive at your vacation destination and purchase some new ones with your prepaid card. Additional items you may want to mail ahead are sports items and heavy shoes. Make arrangements with the hotel so they can keep them until you arrive.
If you are going to a place where you are going to dress up for dinner, place the pressed shirts, jackets, and dresses in the same garment bag, and place dry cleaner plastic bags between each to avoid wrinkling. You also need to roll the items in your suitcase as tight as possible instead of folding them to create enough space for all your things. This not only saves space, but you also get less wrinkling. Try to include layered items if going to a cold climate.
To save on space bring multi-functional clothes that you can mix and match so it doesn’t look as though you are wearing the same items. Remember to label and tag your luggage with your name, vacation destination address and home address in case it gets lost and bring all your medicines with you in your carryon bag.