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I have a new job that requires I wear a suit and tie. Usually I just ride slowly to work in my ordinary clothes, which is fine for jeans etc., but now I think I need to carry them with me and change at work. Any ideas or tips for how to fold, carry etc nice clothes so I don't look like a Dixon's salesman when I put them on for work?
Roll them in a towel?
I used to drive in 1 day of week and take 4 days worth of clothes.
Leave the suit there, take in a clean shirt every day?
Even if there's no lockers there must be somewhere you can hang a suit up, maybe wrapped in a plastic cover from the drycleaners.
Alpkit do some great waterproof bags.
I leave my jacket at work but take trousers and shirt in every day, folded up inside a thin laptop bag which is then put in a rucksack
you can also get a foldable pouch (seen them in some walking shops but can't remember the name) in which to put your shirts
Why don't you wear a Burqa!
I don't have to wear a suit (thankfully!), in fact it doesn't matter in the slightest how scruffy I am but I take in a T-shirt and underwear each day wrapped up in a carrier bag inside my rucksack.
Shower at work then change - I have specific work trousers which are left there and washed once a week by the company so that's one less thing to worry about.
I also have a bag left at work with spare T-shirt and underwear cos it's not unknown for me to forget them in a morning!
At the very least leave your jacket.
I take in pants and a shirt everyday loosely folded in a record/courier bag. Never creased when I get in.
Eagle creek do some packing things that may be of interest.
I bung mine in a rucksack and spend the day looking like I sleep in bus shelters.
I leave 2 sets of trousers at work, they have a dry cleaning service so I can alternate without having to take them home
I take in 4 shirts at the beginning of the week (Friday is dress-down) loosely rolled in a towel and put in a Carradice saddle bag. Then take them into the showers and hang them to get damp in the steam - most of the creases drop out straight away.
Leave suit at work and iron the shirt when you get to work?
Thanks - some ideas to consider. I don't feel that comfortable leaving my stuff at work - always some cock ready to play a silly joke!!
Get yourself an Eagle Creek Pack It Folder.
http://www.safariquip.co.uk/acatalog/Eagle_Creek.html#aEAGFO
I use mine for conferences and it works well.
I just use a rucksac - the Mountain Warehouse "Walkabout 30" one is ok, shoes in the bottom section, the rest in the main section. Although fitting a suit jacket in might be difficult as well.
An old butler's tip i heard was to put a sheet of tissue paper on a garment before folding it with the paper in the middle, apparently helped reduce creases... Haven't tried it myself mind!
I iron the week's shirts and put them in my rucksack in a box file on a Monday. Crease free! In winter I take crumpled shirts and put a jumper on.
I take my shirts in wholesale in the car, the trousers get left at work and get washed once they've been worn a few times. I've got a locker I managed to aquire though so no messing with my stuff. Any 'joker' who did what get a kick up the chuff.
Iron, carefully fold, insert into plastic bag, insert into courier bag/pannier.
Seems to have worked fine for 5 years.
[i]I bung mine in a rucksack and spend the day looking like I sleep in bus shelters. [/i]
+1
If you worked at the same place as me I could get the wife to drop them off with mine on a Monday morning.
I accept, this is a remote possibility but you never know.
I too take stuff in by car regularly. I've an entire wardrobe at work, it gets taken home / washed / returned to work as necesssary. Never carry clothes when commuting by bike