Anecdote: MY solo traveler's perspective: Resist the belief that others gauge your travel skills or character & status based on your luggage & wardrobe. I never dwelt on others. If they dwelt on mine, it was none of my business & I didn’t care. I doubt anyone, but pickpockets do care.  

         Summer: Light, quick-drying breathable fabrics; sun HAT , sunglasses, and always a light waterproof jacket, or compact umbrella for evening or air-conditioned buses.

        Winter: Layering is key. A warm coat, gloves, scarf, and always a hat to promote heat retention & reduce heat loss. Remove outer layers & wrap around waist as walking warms your body up.

    C. How much stuff? While an overly-fashion-conscious ocean ship cruiser may sense a social need to make multiple clothing changes each day, every day,  the LBT travel seeks the minimal necessary wardrobe focused on comfort & efficiency.
     
        a) One of the great values of a "capsule wardrobe" is that you minimize the variety and volume or number of items you need to take because you can mix and match in near infinite variety of looks.

Anecdote: MY solo traveler's perspective: Again,  resist the belief that others gauge your travel skills or character & status based on your luggage & wardrobe. I never dwelt on others. If they dwelt on mine, it was none of my business & I didn’t care. I doubt anyone, but pickpockets do care.

“Avoid superfluous wardrobe redundancy,
fashion is fatuous.” (me)

       b) Rick Steve's warns, (paraphrase): 'You might have to carry or roll your luggage over uneven pavement for several blocks, and then, sometimes, up & down multiple flights of stairs to your room at each hotel.  

 The more travel experienced you become,
the more you whittle down & refine
what you carry ..... to the bare essentials.

Quote “Take half the stuff and twice the money”, Susan Heller.

My 'solo travel' Wardrobe  
     (The following text is a succinct version of the following link: 
SIT Wadrobe & Equipment]

WADR, I have little regard for other people’s opinions of my dress style. Rather I have created a travel wardrobe that I believe is --
    1) culturally respectful, &
    2) enhances my safety, comfort & ease of solo independent travel.

In all my travels, NO ONE ever seemed to notice or care. My ‘old-guy, foreigner’s’ persona was, perhaps, of far greater curiosity.

Remember, you are one of the millions traveling the world ostensibly to discover other cultures, etc. WADR, neither you nor I, are Queen Elizabeth on her World Cruise of the colonies.😀

     My solo traveler's practical wardrobe considerations:   OK, at 80, its not a pretty image, but it worked for 20+ years.

    a. safety: modified to hide lots of money

    b. comfort: allkinds of weather & climate
    c. culturally respectful: NO ONE ever voiced
         concern.
    d. necessity: truly necessary & Might Become
         Necessary:
    e. washing ease & quick drying: overnight
    f. all around utility: Cargo shorts/pant’s multiple
         pockets, belt
       w/ cash, hand sanitizer, compass, & a mini-
         flashlight.
    g. all weather conditions: layered shirts, vest
          jacket (rain/snow) 

Anecdote: Hiking the Camino de Santiago: over the Pyrenees into Spain, I passed a powerful young man, perhaps 30 years younger than I dressed like a WWII soldier with a large rucksack …. 2 to 3 times as large as my day pack. Terribly overloaded.

I said, “Hello” as I passed, and he responded with a simple nod.      The next day I passed him again, saying, “Hello”, and his response was an UNfriendly look, a curt nod & grunt.       I never saw him again.

Anecdote: My 3 seasons wardrobe for 600+/- mile Camino de Santiago trek: My late summer early Fall CdeS trek from France across Spain had to anticipate August’s central Spain’s rainy/foggy rolling-hilled vineyards PIK: cloudy vineyards TO the Meseta Plateau’s chilly September early morning starts (6 am) & blistering hot treeless afternoons TO the west’s high plateau’s cold Fall mornings & lovely middays. 

I carried everything for 35 days in a medium-day pack, switching out items in Burgos & Leon. 

Youtube video: is a few hours hiking from Muxia on Pacific Coast to the REAL end of the Camino trek. After an early chilly morning start, I am peeling off a couple of layers to tie down on top of my daypack.

h. anticipated activities: hiking trekking poles.