I have always liked the cycling specific orange vests with the long flap in back. (If it doesn't have a reflecting strip hanging below my waist, that vest is only useful for helicopter search crews looking for me; I ride leaning forward that much.) But I have also been aware the past 4 or 5 decades that reflectors and nearly all bicycle lights are not seen at all by drivers coming out of side streets and driveways, nor oncoming left turning drivers. (Left turning drivers being a real source of cycling deaths/very serious crashes.) So a few years ago, I sewed loops to hold blinkies on the straps of my vest so those blinkies sit at the front corner of my hips. It was immediately obvious that drivers took note.

The other piece of gear I no longer ride with that worked very, very well was a blinking or steady light on my ankle (or below the knee). I stopped using those lights simply because I am skinny, bony and the straps and contact were leading up to chronic injuries, especially since most of those miles happened riding fix gear and down hills which meant either too tight straps or real banging that was damaging to both me and the light. 30 years of that took its toll. I may go back when I find a more comfortable solution. It is the simple, most effective light for a bike there is for cars behind, Nothing else out there moves in that pattern. Nothing, I used little more than that light plus a rear blinkie that often didn't work and a vest for 30 years after a very rude awakening to the fact that the headlights of my early days were invisible to drivers and lead me to the illusion I was seen. I don't see my leg light so I rode knowing I was "salmon". Didn't get a headlight until NightRIder came out with their halogen light in the early '90s.

Ben