That is a question of how good you are at combining things. Me, as a former fashion designer, I am usually the best dressed male anywhere I go except the Pret-a-porter shows. The audience there dresses to kill and spares no resources. But fashion was not the sense of the post, obviously. Most Americans I see traveling certainly would never wear the suggested apparel with dress shirt, dark pants and shoes, sport coat and overcoat. But this is in essence the normal wardrobe when a well dressed gentleman leaves the house.

The sense was to come up with a list that allows one to travel almost indefinitely (for an overnight trip this list is much too long) yet lightly, while still being well dressed for all occasions, even if your luggage gets lost.

There are situations where you arrive in the evening and have a meeting the next morning and no stores will be open to buy new stuff, or where you will simply not have the time to do so before a meeting. Sure, you can tell the clients that the airline lost your suitcase but your unpreparedness might not look good.

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