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The Eicolorte sarong is a rectangle of lightweight polyester with a tasselled edge that ties as a wrap skirt, a halter dress or a shawl. It’s the cover-up in this store that weighs almost nothing and comes in the most colours.

We haven’t travelled with this one ourselves, so what follows is the spec and what owners keep saying about it.

Polyester, tassels, one size, seventeen colours

The fabric is 100 percent polyester, soft with some drape rather than stiff, and it doesn’t wrinkle in a bag. The listing gives the size as 56 by 43 inches, one size. The edge is trimmed with tassels, which is what makes it read as a sarong rather than a plain length of cloth. Amazon.ca carries it in seventeen colours, from black and white through khaki, pink, green, brown, orange and blue. The care tag says hand wash, no iron, no bleach.

Out of the water, over the shoulders

Tie it low on the hips for a wrap skirt, cross it behind the neck for a dress, or throw it over the shoulders when you’ve had enough sun. It folds into a corner of a beach bag and comes out uncreased, and one piece does the job of three. So it’s the thing to pack when the bag is already full.

What keeps coming up

The versatility is what owners write about: waist, neck, shoulders, and it goes on over whatever suit is already in the bag. It fits across a wide range of sizes, including owners who wear an XXL. Two things to know. The light colours are sheer, and black and the darker shades are the ones owners call not see-through, so pick dark if coverage is the point. And it runs smaller in hand than the listing measurements suggest, so treat it as a hip wrap rather than a long one. It’s polyester, so it holds heat more than cotton would.