Dear Heather,
In reference to your post, 10 smart travel tips for women around the world, I have an issue with tip # 9, pack an amazing convertible dress like the American Apparel Cotton Jersey Bandeau Dress. You did not just give American Apparel a shout out! I don’t care if the dress is “space-saving magic” and only costs $43. Did you SEE this dress? I clicked on it because I couldn’t stop giggling,and then it turned into a full-fledged gut wrenching laugh. It’s so Stars On Ice meets Little Appalachian Barbie, and they fought over the fabric. Heather, if you have this dress, I am SO sorry. Burn it.
Ron.
Ron.
Ron,
You’ll be happy to know I do not own that dress. But I do love the idea of a convertible dress that’s easy to pack and can be worn more than one way. Hey, whadayasay we design a line of clothes of our own! We’ll call it Four-Four-Seven after the first three digits of my employee number. Come on, Ron, let’s create truly beautiful space-saving magic together. Only we’ll charge more.
Heather
Dear Heather,
You have no idea how glad I am to hear that you do not own that dress. I, too, like the idea of a convertible dress, just not that one, or one even similar to that one. Heather, I think you’re in luck because before I became a medical professional I worked for Banana Republic as a merchant. That’s how I ended up first in San Francisco. So consider me in! Only I thought we’d call the line Super-80. You know how much I love my Super-80’s.
Ron
Dear Ron,
I’m the boss. You’re fired!
Heather
Dear Ron,
After much deliberation I’ve decided I need you. You’re rehired.
Heather
Heather Poole 
LOL! I can’t stop laughing, I had no idea I was ever hired and fired and re-hired. Wow. Let’s get to work.
“Super80” is a great name for a travel-clothing label!
Beth, if you’d been hired, you’d be fired. LOL
SEE!!!! Beth, thank you! it’s a wonderful name, it’s real cute huh? Heather……taps foot……hmmm
Here ya go. Some of ’em are …. quite …. um. Well.
http://www.google.com/products?q=convertable+dress&oe=utf-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=DBfOS8GQM4aeswOu_fyuDg&sa=X&oi=product_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CCMQrQQwAA
I travel overseas/domestically for scholarly conferences and research…
I got so tired of classic black (not my best color) that I dug for others… Victoria’s Secret’s convertible dress (long & short) works even on less-than-perfect figures, and come in a rainbow of colors – and I’m not usually a VS woman. Soft Surroundings carries a similar dress at this time. Check out Travelsmith for dresses in other colors that wash/dry in a flash – although some might make you groan.
Counsel re accessorizing still holds: I pack scarves, etc., in zipper bags, squooshing the air out, and they take up next to no space/weight (the ‘extra’ bags are handy, too!)
I can’t wait to check out the VS dress! Thanks for the tip. A good dress is hard to find.
Heather,
A miracle in a carry on — but no underwear??
Marie
Marie,
I thought about underwear, but then I was like, do I really want the world seeing MY underwear. The answer is no. And so I leave it to the imagination. 🙂 Anyway, underwear is small and easy to pack