Layering is key in Europe and America, not only because it can be highly stylish but because it helps to keep you warm. By way of a contrast, in Singapore, we try to avoid layering our clothes.
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Here's an outfit that's similar to something I quite often wear if I'm going out shopping for groceries, a.k.a. 'marketing'. (Truth be told, I suspect the playsuit shown here might be a bit short on me, but I do have and continue to wear a short, faux wrap dress I bought out of Jigsaw in the UK, several years ago now, that's more or less exactly the same colour and is very similar through the sleeves.)
Some tips to remember are as follows:
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As I've mentioned before, in Singapore it will be somewhere between 28 and 32 degrees celcius and it will rain someone on the island at some point in the day more or less every single day of the year. If you're going to be walking around out of doors for any length of time, not only do you not really want to be wearing any more than a single layer of clothing, but you want that one, single layer to be manufactured out of something that's reasonably absorbant. Some folk would advise that you avoid man-made fibres such as polyester altogether, but its really only the polyester satins I find to be a problem, basically because it's almost as if they were specially designed to show off how much you're perspiring (and you will be perspiring, believe me; forget anything you were ever told about how ladies only ever gently glow!).
Do you have any tips you're wiling to share on how to make the same items of clothing work regardless of weather? I'm particularly interested when it comes to what layers to add/take off during the actual journey. I mean, who want's to turn up looking completely out of place as they globe trot?