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28 Jul 2021
A Kiwi fashion designer has come up with a genius solution to excess baggage fees: the “travel coat”.
When Bruno Harding and his wife decided to move from Berlin back to New Zealand last year because of the pandemic, they faced the prospect every traveller dreads: excess baggage charges.
Being a fashion designer by trade, Harding came up with a creative solution to the problem and headed to his local flea market where he found a few metres of nylon “in two perfect tones of green” to create what looks like a puffer jacket.
But, according to a post on the Facebook page of Harding’s label, Bruno’s Originals, the interior of the jacket was filled with 6.8 kilograms of clothing in the place of feathers.
Photo: Bruno s Originals I always thought it would be quite an interesting idea, he said. I did a bit of research into people who had failed doing similar things, like wearing five coats and five pairs of jeans and looking kind of ridiculous.
He went to a local flea market and picked up a couple of metres of nylon. Then he set about creating something that sort of replicated a puffer jacket , using his own clothes in place of feathers to fill it. You will now receive updates from Traveller Newsletter
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