Explore the ultimate interstellar accessory with Three6nine's Don't Panic Emergency Towel, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy edition. Printed on 200gsm, the words "don't panic" from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy are emblazoned in friendly, red letters, accompanied by a small emergency towel. A towel is just about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can carry, ensuring you're always prepared for any cosmic adventure. Available with the emergency glass broken or intact, this is not just a towel, but a testament to your love for design and interstellar sagas. At Three6nine, we meld functionality and fandom, offering essentials that speak volumes about our dedication to quality and unique design.
 
A towel is just about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can carry. Partly because it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand combat; wrap it around your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you — daft as a brush, but very very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course you can dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
One of the fancier utility towels that some hitchhikers choose to have.
A proud salute to the all-mighty Douglas Adams on Towel Day.
More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, washcloth, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet-weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker might accidentally have "lost." What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the Galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.
Hence a phrase which has passed into hitch hiking slang, as in "Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is."