Dress for the last hour of the trip, not the first — plus the one bag that ends the debate.

Travel clothes have one job: to still be acceptable four hours later. Choose the outfit you would be comfortable walking into the first dinner wearing, then make it soft enough to sleep in.

The formula

Knit trousers that read as tailored, a long cardigan doubling as a blanket, a plain tee, and shoes you can remove in one motion. Nothing that needs an iron on arrival.

If it can’t go from the aisle to a bar stool, it isn’t travel clothing.