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Cabela's GuidewearŪ Travel Shirt

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By Kathleen Crislip, About.com

Travel Clothing Cabela's Guidewear Supplex Travel Shirt

Cabela's GuidewearŪ Unisex Travel Shirt

The Bottom Line

Cabela's Supplex® Guidewear® unisex "big" shirt is a beauty travel gem. Works as a beach cover-up, a coolish overshirt, and a very handy all-around travel garment. Features provide practical travel solutions, while the soft fabric in understated colors makes a comfy fashion statement. Get one.
Pros
  • Super roomy pockets
  • Supplex® fabric dries quickly
  • Extra neck protection flap
Cons
  • Epaulets, while practical for fisherman, add non-fashionable fuss

Description

  • Nonfitted men's style; "convertible" sleeves stay rolled up with button tab.
  • Vented back yoke with velcro closure.
  • Coolmax® mesh panel across shoulders.
  • Collar fold stands up to protect neck from sun; velcro keeper.
  • Five pockets: two bellows pockets with double velcro closures; three zippered pockets.
  • Sunglasses loop.
  • Extra-long tail (handy for tying at waist).
  • Available in sage, white, yellow (shown), sand, blue and turquoise.
  • 100% cotton; sizes men's S-5XL.

Guide Review - Cabela's Guidewear® Travel Shirt

Cabela's doesn't call the Supplex® Guidewear® men's shirt a unisex "big" shirt -- that's my moniker for their all-purpose travel shirt. I love it. Soft, sweet cotton treated in some mysterious way to dry quickly. 30+ ultraviolet sun protection built in, too. Air conditioned, with big back and shoulder vents. It's my kinda shirt. If only women's shirts had such functional features...

Pockets upon pockets

I inadvertently tested the advertised stain-resistant finish with some fresh papaya juice, which instantly beaded until I could wipe the moisture away. Very trick. I (also unintentionally) gave the pockets a real workout in the Mexico City airport, where I stuffed them with passport, boarding pass, phrasebook, fistfuls of pesos and reading glasses, despite all the available pockets in my cargo pants, backpack, wallet, passport holder... oh, and lipbalm in the very handy small zippered pocket atop one of the bellow pockets (atop one of the big zippered pockets). This shirt is like one of those boxes with boxes nested inside boxes.

Extra special secret feature

The stand-up fold on the collar is too cool. While the rest of the button-down collar lays there, looking deceptively normal, the back turns up seperately to protect your neck.

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