One of our field team testing shirts, hats, and cheroots in Burma

Here at the WoWasis Travel eStore, we like to rigorously test the items we promote. We wear them, use them, and beat the living hell out of them. We’ve had shirts shredded by African bush thorns, cameras sullied by Javanese volcanic dust, phones wrecked by falls. We even had a shirt destroyed by sulfuric acid fumes after we spent some time in a caldera in Greece (the whole thing came apart the next time it was washed). You name it, we’ve destroyed it. After cumulative decades of rough travel, we know what works, and what breaks.   

We’re always testing things in our travels, but some are tried and true, and we use them all the time, because they don’t fail. We’re testy. We loved a particular Pro-Camfis shirt, for instance, but it the fibers broke down too fast. We ended up going to a tailor in Bangkok, picked our own fabric, created a style, added zippers where we wanted them, and that’s what we travel with now, shirt-wise. You can’t buy that in stores or online, but we’ll report on stuff you can find. We bought it all with our own money, and we’re just like you. We want it to wear well in the field and be durable enough that we don’t have to keep spending for things that don’t work. Our Clothing Accessories Gadgets category in the blog is where you’ll find items that we’ve found pass the muster, and you can read our field test reports. You can buy many of these items in our eStore. If you’re always staying in 5 star hotels, you may not need goods that can take a beating. But if you’re in rigorous desert, jungle, or urban conditions, check out our posts.