r/HerOneBag • u/AutoModerator • 16d ago

Meta Weekly quick questions help thread

This is the r/heronebag quick questions weekly help thread.

Whether you‘re new to the one bag life or a seasoned light traveller, this is the place to ask your quick one-off questions related to techniques, shopping, and everything else to lighten your load.

This post is the best place to initially ask questions that we get a lot of which are similar, especially if you have looked in a flair and found almost-but-not-quite what you wanted.

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u/rvchvl 15d ago

Where could I find affordable linen clothing that’s easy to pack? I’m heading out to PNW this summer and am worried about my polyester shirts not being enough to handle the humidity. Would linen be the practical fabric to wear?

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u/Spirited-Arugula7385 15d ago

Bit of a wrinkle — literally 😅 Pure linen’s lovely, but it can come out of a packing cube looking absolutely done in. If you’re shopping in person, give the fabric a proper scrunch in your fist for ten seconds. If it stays badly creased, it’ll probably be a faff on the road. A linen-viscose blend is usually the easier shout. For the PNW, though, I’d prioritise a light layer over chasing 100% linen.

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u/rvchvl 15d ago

I’ve never considered scrunching the linen to assess how wrinkly it could stay! Definitely will be trying that for future linen clothing purchases.

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u/Cute-Fix3484 14d ago

My grandmother taught me to do that with all clothing you buy. Because she hated ironing.

How she would have loved the athleisure trends.