Empowerment Clothing

Wearing shirts to promote The Empowerment will attract interested people to ask you questions and help spread the word.

Message Shirt

Wear your heart on your sleeve with a good message shirt that says something to the world.

Empowerment Shirt

If you're not sure what to wear, why not rock a cool Empowerment T and contribute to Spread Empowerment?

Pants

High quality pants have excellent durability, efficient pockets and protective knee padding.

5.11 TDU Pants, Ripstop, Black $36

• Best value pants available
• Knee Pads: 5.11 neoprene knee pads included
• 8 Pockets: cargo pockets (2) with magazine sub-pockets (2 each), main deep pockets (2), Rear utility pockets (2).

Belt

5.11 Tactical Trainer Belt 1.5"

A good tactical belt is stiff enough to support heavy attachments and has a clip capable of rappelling in a pinch. Duty Belt Information

Waterproof Side-Zip Boots

Quality waterproof footwear is all-important for anyone with feet.

Original SWAT Waterproof Side-Zip Boots

• Keep feet dry and safe.
• Zippers facilitate quick readying and removal
• Waterproofing is essential because you never know when it could rain or you could get wet even in a desert

Boot Socks

Underwear

Warm Weather

Cold Weather Underwear

Pocket Bags

Things rolling around in your pockets makes for mess and poses a problem when transferring items between pockets and other storage locations. Pocket bags are small bags like zip locking plastic ones reinforced with black duct tape. These also keep your pockets of stuff dry.

Typical Empowerment Clothing Kit

Empowerment clothing is a combination of message and function. The suggested kit is:

• message shirts (10)
• cargo pants (2)
• discreet cargo pants (2)
• belt
• boots, waterproof
• boot socks (10p)
• wool socks (2p)
• summer underwear (10)
• winter underwear (2)

Colors Matter

Colors make a strong visual impression.

Thematic Colors

If you are part of a group with a particular color scheme, wearing a signature color in a signature way can project strength and numbers.

Black is professional

When in doubt, black is default. Black goes with everything. Black is thinning. Black is classic, elegant and powerful. Black makes it that much easier to get dressed in the morning. One less decision. Whatever colors you wear will work with black. And some of the best equipment comes only in black.

However, wearing all black all the time is sometimes stereotyped as "goth" and will alienate some people. Wearing some brightly colored message shirts can attract more eyes and put people at ease.

Traveling Light

Minimal Clothing Kit

If you must travel with an absolute minimum, you only ultimately need 2 pairs of clothes: the clothes you wear and the clothes you wash. Simply hand-wash the dirty pair each night, air dry while you sleep, and you will have clean clothes every day without carrying more than this essential kit. Take high warmth to weight ratio long underwear such as Ex officio makes.