How to tell funny stories about Holiday Disasters

What are your everyday clothing disasters? At home, or on holiday?

Mine include:
In Little India.
Which Little India? The world has lots.
Singapore.

Singapore flag. What could go wrong?
An empty street in Little India.

 1 My wrap around skirt, unwrapped in Little India. Singapore.
The straps tangled and tied around my ankles. So I fell over.
Twenty strange men rushed to help me.
I wasn't sure which hands were pickpockets and which men had wandering hands. But half of them were helpfully pushing away the others. And shouting at the others to let go of me.
A street in Little India after my skirt unwrapped.

 I was providing both a free striptease show and a free wrestling match. Two thousand other little boys and big men stopped to watch. They shouted instructions in assorted foreign languages.

2 My large brim hat which blew off in the taxi from the airport in Cambodia.
The taxi was a motorcycle trishaw, open-sided, no protection against flying objects. The motorcycle's speed over potholes created a switchback effect requring both hands to hang on, plus a nine force gale causing the hat to levitate.

My hat disappeared under a passing lorry. The lorry was fine. But my hat was flattened. As I looked back, I saw the flat hat boomerang around both sides of the road, causing near accidents.

By the time we had explained to our driver, who spoke no English, and returned, the disobedient AWOL hat had disappeared into the trees.

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