Lady, I skip "bright" colors myself at all time. But any neutral is good for a travel wardrobe and no one will be staring at you because of your choice. Black, brown, grey, olive green, navy are all good base colors.

Truth is: Virtually no one looks good in brown. Choose it if you like, but why anyone but the 10% who look good in it would jump on that bandwagon is beyond me.

If you do where brown: take a lot of photos so you can have a good chuckle in about a year from now--sort of like I do when I see pix of me from the 70's regaled from head to toe in "Rust".

oops: WEAR brown, not WHERE brown. English---oy.

I am a staunch supporter of brown. I don't look that great in black and rarely wear it anymore.

If you do black, you pretty much have to do black bottoms and black jacket with a colored top and scarf.

If you do brown, you can mix up your bottoms and jackets between dk brown, lt brown, camel, khaki and olive and then add colored tops. An olive bottom, sage top with a lt brown jacket looks great and put together. Then you can put the lt brown jacket with your dk brown pants and a soft yellow top. Wear brown shoes with both and you're set to go. And when you look at your photos, you'll see you, rather than a crow in mourning.

P.S. Even if you don't look great in brown, you have more options to put around your face because you don't have to wear a brown jacket with your brown pants.

I have a nice dark olive cordoruy jacket that works great with my brown pants and skirts. Add a sage, soft yellow, or rust top underneath and I look put together without having a bran muffin look.

Having that ability to differ your jacket color from your pants/skirt color is the best thing about going away from black. You can even add a pair of jeans to the wardrobe and still look put together (and you won't have a banding issue).

I mix black and brown together. I think it is a very sophisticated combination. Try plack pants with a chocolate turtleneck sweater.

Black also looks good with camel/tan.

Very few people can pull off red. Don't go there unless you know what you are doing.

Thingorjus,
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Jeans and a t-shirt... and a few other layers as it is winter.

Honestly, you'll stick out in whatever you wear. Everyone can spot a tourist. And the American accent is not easy to hide.

Only you can decide what you want or like to wear. You'll get 20 different opinions on this board and still not know what's best.