What To Wear In Chicago
To sum it up - Great Shopping, City Life
- Smart business orientated clothes will carry you through in Chicago for business, sight seeing and for eating out.
- The summers are hot and lightweight clothes in natural fibres will work best - lightweight dresses fit the bill perfectly but be warned the air conditioning can be fierce, so take a lightweight jacket or pashmina to throw on.
- Guys should be smartly dressed for business - but again, make sure your suit's lightweight.
- It's very easy to get clothes laundered so you can keep your packing light.
- The “ Windy City” has a great deal to offer the sight seeing visitor - there really is loads to see and do, and most of it is best done on foot, so make sure you take comfy footwear for daytime.
- Everything's a really great buy in Chicago - shopping's brilliant, so don't take up valuable packing space with cosmetics, medicines, sun creams, books or the like. Buy them there.
- Don't forget that conditions are arctic if you're visiting in winter, so you need to be prepared for them. If you don't, you'll find that your skin really does shrivel up and fall off. You are well advised to have a very thick, warm coat. Gloves, a hat and ear muffs are also a very good idea.
- Have some versatile shoes with a soft rubber tread to provide you with enough traction not to slip on the ice.
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