Fashion can sometimes offer a window onto social and technological change. For example, the February 1949 issue of the Australian Home Journal advises readers on what to pack for one of those exciting new aeroplane flights.
Don't Overload
If you are flying—and this is a popular form of travel to-day—you have to whittle your luggage down to essentials because you are only allowed 44 lbs. of luggage—and excess luggage becomes an expensive proposition.
If you plan interchangeable clothes, you'll have less luggage to carry and the right things for the time and the place.
The perennial problem of keeping within one's luggage allowance has arrived! There are still a few years before our intrepid travellers have to worry about flying "cattle class" or airport security scans, however.
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