Fall Travel: Time for a New Sweater

I love fall weather. I love sweaters and boots and chilly, clear morning air. I treat myself this time of year to one new sweater – some have become my new favorite piece of clothing. Sweaters are great for travel. If you layer well, you can sometimes get away with a nice warm over-sweater and then not have to deal with a heavy coat in tight airplane spaces.

Here are a few suggestions from National Geographic – people who know a thing or two about travel and about the best clothing for whatever travel destination you might have in mind.

This classic Scottish Lamb’s-wool Argyle Sweater will make you look as if you’ve just left the pages of Town & Country magazine!

The blue, gray, and brown argyle sweater is a timeless classic, inspired by clan tartans dating back to the 17th century. Knit by a 135-year-old mill in Hawick, a town along the Teviot River in the southeastern Scottish Borders known for its knitwear.

A Scottish Wool Walking Sweater will keep you warm no matter what country you walk.

A tradition in the British Isles that dates back more than a century, this classic outdoor style uses 100% Shetland wool fiber for its warmth and natural moisture-wicking properties. Built to withstand Scotland’s vigorous, often fast-changing weather, it has suede patches at shoulders and elbows for durability and reduced wear and tear from backpacks or camera straps. Crafted in a 19th-century mill on the banks of the Annick Water in rural Ayrshire, Scotland.

Available in Burgundy or Oatmeal.

This Tiwanaku Textiles Alpaca Sweater

In the Bolivian high plains, amid the snowcapped Andes, the pre-Inca Tiwanaku culture thrived for more than 500 years. So far only a fraction of the civilization’s ruins have been excavated, yet it has yielded some of the earliest and more remarkably well-preserved textiles found in the Americas.

Their art features highly abstracted figures, that originally expressed real places, animals, or cultural events but over time became icons with symbolic meaning. The intricate, interlocked geometric patterns on this alpaca fiber sweater are adapted from woven Tiwanaku tunics made around 500 A.D.

This Norwegian Quarter-zip Wool Sweater ticks all the sweater boxes! Stylish and dense – it may replace your coat on many fall occasions!

Farmers and fishermen, hikers and skiers have all prized Devold’s thick and hardwearing design. They’ve even outfitted pioneering Norwegian explorers including Fridtjof Nansen, who led the first inland crossing of Greenland in 1888, and Roald Amundsen, who let the first Antarctic expedition to the South Pole and was the first person to have visited both the North and South Poles.

This oatmeal-colored wool sweater is knit of three-gauge Norwegian wool and features a thick and insulating collar plus a front quarter-zip.

Yeah buddy – that’s the sweater for me!

Look for these and other sweater styles at National Geographic’s online store. Great for you – great for gift ideas!

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