Clothes to wear on overnight flights

Aim is to be comfortable on overnight flights. For me that usually means a softer T-shirt, grabbing a sweatshirt or two to use as an eye cover/pillow (I don't do well with sleeping with lights on), shorts (no belt), and easy to slip off shoes. Planes usually start off hot then get cool so air vent open all the way as soon as I get on. Preflight a quick trip to the restroom for deodorant, Advil, and a toothpaste brushup (all taken in carryon bag with easy access)

(I flew in coach 99% of the time internationally.)

If you're in coach internationally, there's not much you're going to be able to do, except drink more, and embrace the suck.

Not sure how old you are, but we should start with compression socks.

Use SeatGuru and do not do dumb things like book seats that have limited footwell access because of In Flight Entertainment (IFE) boxes stored in the seat in front of you, etc.

Get an inflatable butt pillow. Do not inflate it completely, maybe 75%. Almost every Star Alliance flight I've been on internationally has had "wings" on the head rest, so the neck pillow that everyone uses backwards seems to be irrelevant.

For clothing, it's breathable over all. Certain airlines/captains of non USA carriers will keep the cabin at 75 ish degrees, which is way too warm for me.

I think loose is the overall key. Fly in a fishing shirt and breathable cargo shorts. Have a less causal shirt if you need to in your backpack carryon, if you need it upon landing. Linen pants are great, but you're going to be wrinkly AF upon landing. Loose weaves, even in synthetics, are key. If you get your linen pants scarred with sweat stains on the way to the gate, you're not drying out for quite a while. Besides, Linen is expensive as a AF to clean/launder. You also need pockets for passports, etc., and linen generally isn't good at being a pocket. I travel in TruSpec Pants, but normally wear their shorts on the daily.

Yes, very tactical looking, but I put my ticket in the same pocket, passport in the same pocket, etc. They're not hotter than their shorts. If you have compression socks on anyway, it's a total temperature wash.

If you wear contacts, it's a major upgrade to your experience if you pull your contacts out and switch to glasses when you board, and only put contacts in right before you land.

Don't underestimate how good a quick shave and a brushing of teeth will make you feel, especially before landing in the morning at the destination.

Lulu pants and shirt. Not only comfortable, but, don’t look all wrinkled when landing. Also bring a dry fit Nike hat for bed head.

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Fly in a fishing shirt and breathable cargo shorts.

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T Shirt and running shorts are my go to for pretty much everything, including sleeping on planes

Dri-fit polo, preferably Adidas Columbia, or UnderArmour
Loose running shorts
Compression socks
Shoes you can easily kick off

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he idea that people are walking around in sweatpants or even put on pajamas during a flight is more repulsive to me than you could ever know.

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What about when the airline provides those pajamas and offers them to you as they turn down your pod from sitting to laying?

Friend,

A waiter at Commander's Palace offered me a glass of champagne when I was three or four years old, eating an Easter lunch with my family. A serpent offered our ancestors a piece of fruit in the Garden. Hard drug dealers offer marijuana to God's children everyday.

There is a spiritual gift in discerning what is and what is not temptation. As Jiminy Cricket puts it, Temptations: they're the wrong things that seem right at the time, but, uh, even though the right things may seem wrong sometimes, or sometimes the wrong things may be right at the wrong time, or visa versa.

You will never see me in anything other than a suit on a plane. I do this as a matter of personal preference and as a service to society as a whole.

Yours,
TulaneLSU

So thats a yes?