How to: The Best Way to Fold a Suit or Sport Coat for Travel

Whenever you’re flying and need to take a jacket, often it’s best to wear it on the plane since all kinds of craziness could happen to it if packed away. But sometimes, it just doesn’t make sense to wear while traveling, and you need to figure out a way to pack a suit or sportcoat in your luggage.   The Compass, the blog of men’s style site Black Lapel, has figured out a try to keep your jackets in shape and as crease and wrinkle free as possible.  

Similar to folding a fitted sheet, you turn the jacket inside out, so that one shoulder can nestle inside the other, making it as close to a rectangle as possible. 

Get the full how-to on The Compass blog: ASK A BLACK LAPEL STYLIST: HOW TO FOLD A SUIT JACKET WHEN TRAVELING 

[via Lifehacker; sportcoat image from Banana Republic]