The lovely people* at Red Ram have sent me a Merino Base Layer for testing, but frankly the weather is still a warm to be able to tell you anything about it's thermal efficacy. Red Ram is a fair bit cheaper than my current favourite brand, which is no bad thing. The saving seems to come from not having the spiral seams of 'technical' underwear, after one days wear I'm yet to detect a difference. I wore the top last weekend on a Pheasant shoot where I was over dressed for the weather and under dressed for the thorns and brambles I fought my way through, I was boiling the whole time. As soon as I get round to slinging on a wool wash on I'll let you know how well it survived the rigours of the washing machine, but a true test of the longjohns will have to wait until the mercury falls.
For those of you not afflicted by 'kit-tart-ness' sorry if that's the way the blog seems to be going at the moment - normal service with it's tales of feral failure will resume shortly with a cold weather adventure, a look at the english class system afield, some book reviews, and I may even get the time to finish some craft projects that aren't based in other people houses.
Keep well, your pal
SBW
*Lovely People status is available to pretty much anyone who wants to send me useable stuff
3 comments:
You’re making the same mistake that everyone makes. Namely, thinking that you can only wear wool when it drops below a certain temperature. Otherwise you'll be sweating like a hog.
Wrong.
I wear merino wool when it’s -35°C or when it’s +35°C, and I’m supremely comfortable either way.
Just put the damn thing on already.
Exploriment
Sadly its just of many mistakes I'm still making. I wore wool trousers which were warm but not thornproof enough.
The last time I was at +35C I reckon it would have killed me.
SBW
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