Turn living out of your luggage into an aspirational lifestyle choice with just a few smart purchases.

In a perfect world, we’d all travel with our own personal valet. While we’d glide from destination to destination, encumbered by nothing more than a chic leather folio in which we’d store only our most vital documents, he’d struggle along in our wake with a trunk containing all of our worldly possessions.

Sadly, it’s not the 18th century anymore, and we are not embarking on the Grand Tour.

Back in the real world – a world of luggage allowances, security checks and rabid competition for the overhead lockers – only the fabulously rich and famous are excused the responsibility of transporting their own luggage. Our travel wardrobes must therefore be limited to what we can comfortably carry.

A tightly curated approach to the contents of your suitcase is no bad thing, however, and can teach you a few lessons about disciplined wardrobe planning that are applicable to style and dressing in general. Bearing that in mind, we’ve devised what is – in our opinion – the perfect starter kit for the frequent traveller. It’s not so flimsy that it will leave you feeling underdressed, nor so hefty that it will overburden you.

There’s no such thing as a one-size-fits-all travel wardrobe, of course, and while this suitcase will take you to most places, you might need a few additional extras in certain circumstances. Plus, we haven’t included personal tech, either, on the assumption that you’ll have a separate bag for all of that stuff. Better instead to think of this, then, as the core of your travel wardrobe, to which you can add suits, pyjamas, belts, ties or whatever else you might want or need. And it all starts, as do many good wardrobes, with a navy blazer.