If a backpack could be clothing, it would be the capacious Scottevest, a brilliant workaround to pesky TSA rules and airline carry-on restrictions

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Airport security is one of the worst parts of travel, especially recently. Even with TSA PreCheck, you need to empty every pocket before getting scanned. If you carry as much stuff as I do, it’s like being asked to empty your desk drawer on a conveyor belt.

Then I discovered an unlikely workaround: a vest with dozens of pockets for everything, including phones, glasses, earbuds, pens, pencils, wallets, tablets and yes, even laptops. I don’t bother unloading anything. I just remove the whole vest and send it through the scanner. When I pick it up on the other side with everything still neatly filed away, it feels like a cheat code.