Wool Still Works

[CharlesHarris]

[Lightspeed]

Many of us still wear tweed over here Charlie, so we still know the benefits of wool....you should know all about it as..the most popular type is Harris Tweed :-)

[MikeA]

I still use the old "Wooly-Pulley" (think green woollen jumper) which is no longer issued. Of all the modern Snugpack jackets I've used its this which has often kept me warm the most. Available on ebay and most if not all surplus stores for pennies.

[Timelord]

Wool rules in my book!
I don't understand all this "it's too itchy, scratchy for me" repertoire that most people trot out. Obviously there will be some who are allergic, but otherwise I think people are just too soft like a babies arse... When I was a cadet many years ago and I had soft skin too, I was given military wool shirts to wear and yes they itched like mad at first, but I grinned and beared it because it was part of my military uniform and that was just ace back then as a kid. After a few months of wearing it 2 evenings a week, it soon wore off or I got used to it either way. One of the shirts was especially scratchy /itchy but I learnt to ignore it and I think it softened up anyway.
I have told many people over the years about the benefits of wool and 90% of the time I get this whining drivel about "its too itchy and scratchy and I can't wear it. I am allergic to it etc etc" I don't think the majority of them are, I think they are too pampered & soft arse skinned. To put it this way with some factual basis - Our ancestors in the Western World, up until very recently, used wool extensively as their garment of choice to suit the temperate environment and colder climes. Just how would we have survived as a race if 90% of our ancestors declared that wool was too itchy/scratchy for their delicate skin?? bahh, wingey, whineys, bahh, hrrumph.... ;-)

[Skean Dhude]

It is all about adapting. At the moment they can buy elsewhere. When it is impossible to do so then they can either barter for a stock I'm building up, adapt or go without.

[BeardyMan]

[Midnitemo]

i have some swandri shirts treated to make them waterproof...bloody brilliant they are especially the green one with a windproof layer sewn in between skin and shirt , helps with the coarse feeling but i usually wear a long sleeve t shirt under them anyway.

[BeardyMan]

i have some swandri shirts treated to make them waterproof...bloody brilliant they are especially the green one with a windproof layer sewn in between skin and shirt , helps with the coarse feeling but i usually wear a long sleeve t shirt under them anyway.

I thought the tight weave on the swannis made them pretty much water repellant / resistant anyway?

[Midnitemo]

it says on the blurb that comes with the shirts that they are treated with a "special" ingredient and it goes on to tell you the washing precautions, i find there more showerproof than waterproof and my heathen other half has put them through the washing machine so whatever they did is probs long gone now

[BeardyMan]

it says on the blurb that comes with the shirts that they are treated with a "special" ingredient and it goes on to tell you the washing precautions, i find there more showerproof than waterproof and my heathen other half has put them through the washing machine so whatever they did is probs long gone now

You can't wash 'em! You'll remove the smell of wood smoke.