--- title: Woman Wears All of Her Clothes to Avoid an Extra Baggage Fee description: A resourceful passenger avoided an extra baggage fee by wearing the entire contents of her suitcase on a flight. canonical: https://time.com/5573990/woman-baggage-fee/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-04-19T15:13:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:58:42.470Z og:title: Woman Wears All of Her Clothes to Avoid an Extra Baggage Fee og:description: As one does og:url: https://time.com/5573990/woman-baggage-fee/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt68de1c63d8f8c199/6989489a09208f6ddd413b27/girl-wears-all-clothes-to-avoid-checking-luggage.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Clothes in a suitcase og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Woman Wears All of Her Clothes to Avoid an Extra Baggage Fee twitter:description: As one does twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt68de1c63d8f8c199/6989489a09208f6ddd413b27/girl-wears-all-clothes-to-avoid-checking-luggage.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 'I Was Boiling.' Woman Wears All of Her Clothes to Avoid an Extra Baggage Fee  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Apr 19, 2019 3:13 PM UTC  Image Source—Getty Images/Image Source  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Apr 19, 2019 3:13 PM UTC It’s often said that necessity is the mother of invention and for a recent plane passenger, an $85 baggage fee motivated her to don nearly nine lbs. of clothing. Natalie Wynn, a 30-year-old woman headed to an all-inclusive vacation from Manchester, England, opted for a creative, if uncomfortable alternative to paying an extra fee after she found out that her luggage was 8.81 lbs over the permitted weight limit for her Thomas Cook Airlines flight. “I didn’t want to be using the little amount \[of money\] I had just so I could get my bag on the plane,” Wynn told [_The Sun_](https://www.thesun.ie/travel/3969283/thomas-cook-passenger-avoids-65-excess-luggage-fee-by-wearing-nearly-4kg-of-clothing-at-airport/). “I literally said, ‘I’m not paying it’, and started putting my clothes on…I was boiling, absolutely boiling.” Wynn’s nine lbs. of clothing amounted to seven dresses, two pairs of shoes, two pairs of shorts, a skirt and a cardigan, which she was allowed to repack into her baggage once she had boarded the flight. She later explained that she turned to wearing the excess weight in her suitcase because the extra baggage fee was more than the money she had brought for her vacation. “Because I had booked an all-inclusive holiday so was getting all my food and drink, I didn’t plan on bringing much money with me,” she said. “I think I only had about €69 in my account just to bring with me on holiday.” Wynn’s resourceful approach to travel even impressed the airline she flew with; a spokesperson for Thomas Cook told [_People_](https://people.com/travel/woman-wears-9-lbs-clothing-plane-avoid-overweight-bag-fee/): “Natalie’s ingenuity here is noted! The good news for Natalie and the rest of our customers, is that later this month we are increasing our hand baggage allowance to 8kg. This will hopefully help her travel a little less like [Joey from _Friends_](http://time.com/5381603/balenciaga-coat-friends/) next time.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5573990/woman-baggage-fee/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5573990/woman-baggage-fee/"},"headline":"'I Was Boiling.' 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