Buy your shirts while in BKK! Everything is cheap there why buy elsewhere?

GPanda, Thanks. Looks like a solution. Have you tried the "Buzz Off" shirts with mosquito repellent? The shirts are mostly polyester & some are nylon. Won't that be hot? Will I be bitten to death if I go sleeveless?

We just got bsck from Thailand and were wearing ExOfficio clothes which is long sleeve and for 90 deggree weather. 2 shirts (mine and husbands) were also buzz off. The clothes is very comfortable, breathable, really engineering clothses. Buzz-off - can tell you exactly - we were not bitten by mosquitoes but I do not think we wore that shirt in the evening. But clothes is very good.

Re: shoes/sandals as I posted in other thread. It is a pain to choose only one pair of footwear to wea beacuse:

1. you take shoes off in temples. therefore choose shoes which are easy to slip on/off.
2. I was worried of leaving shoes at the temple, but fortunately they were not stolen (or might be taken by mistake), some posters here said they put shoes in the bag and carry with them. Might work, but again more load to carry in your back.
3. Not sure I remember ban on backless shoes in Bangkok temples however we had closed shoes so cannot comment. Our guides told us everything in advance what we should wear so we were prepared.
4. If in the same day you go to temple and go to elephant ridging, for example, you have slippers or flop flops to take off for temples but on the elephant you are not comfortable in flip-flops since they might fall off.
5. re: general clothes. We came with almost empty 3 suitcases and bought clothes along the way. It was the most fun trip we had since we were buying clothes as we went! I bought a wonderful pair of snickers puma japanese design which I've never seen before. Very light and breathable, real summer sneakers. do not see them here. Bought them in LCX dept store in HKG.
Enjoy your travel.
sophia