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I Wore the Same Shirt for an Entire 12-Day Trip. And It Magically Stayed Clean.
08.01.2025 - 10:35 / matadornetwork.com
Overpacking may be one of my worst qualities. As a Marine, my pack during field exercises routinely weighed five to 10 pounds more than others. Now as a travel writer — another job where you’d think light packing would be an essential skill — I check a bag for any trip longer than a weekend.
It’s not that I pack 100 different outfits, necessarily. It’s just that I don’t like wasting travel time doing laundry, and I never want to be somewhere and think, “I wish I hadn’t left that at home!” When you need a new shirt, new socks, and a new set of gym clothes every day, you’ve filled up two-thirds of your suitcase before you even start thinking about dinner clothes.
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The solution, then, would be finding a piece of utility clothing — a t-shirt or gym attire — you could pack one of for a trip. This seems counter-intuitive and gross since that’s usually the stuff that gets dirtiest, which is why I was so intrigued when I got a pitch from a company called Unbound Merino for “the only shirt you’ll ever need.”
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Unbound Merino is one of many companies that designs clothing that theoretically never needs to be washed. Ably Apparel makes some. As does Mack Weldon. I’d heard about them from frequent-traveling friends, offering advice on how to lighten my load. But the $65 price tag scared me away.
But Unbound Merino offered me a shot to try it free, sending me a snazzy blue crew-neck t-shirt and a pair of black socks. Which I took — with only a couple of backup shirts, just in case — on a 12-day press-trip tour of the Carolinas and Northeast Indiana.
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My biggest question about these magical no-wash clothes was how, exactly, they keep from getting dirty. The fabrics vary by manufacturer, but Unbound Merino uses merino wool. It’s a thin-strand wool from Australian and New Zealand sheep that apparently wicks away moisture so that odor-causing bacteria have nowhere to grow. No bacteria, no funky clothes.
The wool keeps you cool because it’s full of tiny air pockets that relax when your body heat rises, releasing hot air away from your skin. This keeps you cool on hot days or while exercising and is popular among skiers, snowboarders, and other winter athletes.
Armed with this research, I left decked out for my first of many days in a blue crew neck for the Fall For Greenville festival in Greenville, South Carolina. I’d been selected as a judge, tasked to sample 49 dishes in 24 hours. As one who is physically incapable of eating a bowl of pasta without the necessity for dry cleaning, it seemed like this experiment might not last long.
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