Scottevest Women’s Trench Coat Review
Scottevest Women’s Trench Coat Review
The EasyJet coat helps you fight airline weight and carry-on limitations
By Lucy Komisar
Scottevest Women’s Trench Coat Review
We were taking EasyJet from Berlin to Dubrovnik. That discount airline lets you take only one carry-on. And that includes your purse, which (mine) is always chock-full of stuff. After we passed the gate and waited on the line to the plane, we saw a lot of women carrying purses as well as carry-ons. I said to my companion, “I think I have to pack all my stuff in the carry-on.” He said, “Oh, no, look at all these people.” Well, in a few minutes all “these people” were on the floor figuring out how to cram their purses into their carry-ons. Somehow, I managed. But lesson learned!
Scottevest Women’s Trench Coat Review (my stuff stashed in coat pockets)
I bought an EasyJet coat. Well, it’s not really called an EasyJet coat. It’s made by ScotteVest, which calls it a ScotteVest trench coat. What this amazing coat does is allow you to stash a huge amount of stuff into the 18 pockets built into the coat. Smart phones and tablets, wallet, maps, notebooks, passports and air tickets, and a lot more. There is even a special pocket for glasses. And none of what you pack in the coat counts as carry-on.
For example, on a trip from Cannes to Berlin, look at this photo of what I packed into the trench coat. I included a pouch into which I could transfer the items for comfort once I got on the plane. When I got to my Berlin hotel, I discovered that the pouch weighed 7.4 pounds! It couldn’t all have fit in the carry-on, and at the rate of 14 Euros per kilo overweight for the stored luggage, that would have been pricey!
X-Ray View of Scottevest Penny Coat
On another trip in the U.S., from New York to Florida in January, it was too chilly for the trench coat, so I took my EasyJet winter coat. OK, my ScotteVest “Penny” coat. It has a lining and a hood and 14 pockets. This wasn’t about EasyJet, because this flight was American Airlines, but they also limit carry-ons. Though American allows two bags (my carry-on and purse), I also had a tennis bag with two racquets, balls, sneakers, etc. So I packed my purse stuff in the coat, rolled the soft purse into the tennis bag, and walked on with no problem.
The issue is not about weight, or the airlines would require us to weigh our stashed and carry-on baggage and ourselves. It’s about their trying to extract every last penny from travelers. Thanks to ScotteVest, we can fight back!
- You may also be interested in Scottevest Women’s Travel Vest.
