Learning to be warm: synthetic undershirts

[tobias_buckell]

I’ve been blogging about my quest to remain warm in the winter. I talked about silk here, and wool here.

Wool has been scratchy, and silk the smoothest (and on a per weight basis, warmer). But yesterday the temperatures dropped down into single digits, negative with wind chill. There were drafts all throughout the house.

A week ago I acquired this

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Tailoring is expensive.

[comrade_cat]

Wintersilks has short-sleeved shirts and tank tops for men in many colours of silk. I have bought their stuff for women, it's really comfy. I wash them in the washer under cold/gentle and let them hang dry. Some of their stuff comes in varying thicknesses also.

Re: Tailoring is expensive.

[tobias_buckell]

The short sleeve wintersilk hasn't arrived. They initially sent me the wrong thing. I'll see if their short sleeve is more thick than the Land's End I have.

As for tailoring, my mum is actually a professional seamstress on the side, I'm sure I could get a family rate for a few shirts.

Re: Tailoring is expensive.

[comrade_cat]

Sorry, missed where you'd ordered it. (I've been reading lj spottily.)

Family rate is good. I get the version where I don't have to pay anything, I give it to my mom, and never get it back. :(