[at-l] underwear

[nealb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (William Neal)]

Unfortunately cotton undies are good sponges.  More than once, I've got
soaked to the skin (on the trail and working and just bumming around).  And
stayed soaked for hours.  Unfortunately in some situations I was in cotton
underwear: Got soaked on the way to work one day and did not have time to go
back and change; that was an uncomfortable day.  Also since they were wet,
they chafed me more, and they seemed to make rashes worse.  Maybe they
increase the "yeast" type rashes.

For day to day wear, I love cotton. And I would probably include a cotton T
or two for an LD hike. But for intimate underwear on an LD hike, I would
spend the extra if I had it and get synthetics.  Now if someone would come
up with a way to waterproof cotton without killing the "comfortability" of
it.

I know someone's going to mention that I could just carry enough cottons to
change.  But I've seen "a time or two" when I would have had to carry a
year's output from Hanes or FTL.  Once, during a sudden hard rain,
everything in the pack got soaked.  The quickest drying things were the
synthetics -- including the scrub shirt I was wearing.

William, The Turtle

-----Original Message-----
From: t. [mailto:tfort@jam.rr.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 5:52 PM
To: W F Thorneloe
Cc: at-l@mailman.backcountry.net
Subject: Re: [at-l] underwear


yep. that was what these were.  capilene boxer-briefs.  $25 EACH.!  you'd
want at least 2 or 3. that's a lot of money.

 I guess, I'm wondering is ...  if it's worth the money.  for that much, you
could get a whole lot of cotton ones and just burn them when you are done.

t.



----- Original Message -----
From: "W F Thorneloe" <thornel@attglobal.net>
To: "t." <tfort@jam.rr.com>
Cc: <at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: [at-l] underwear


> I like the boxer undies with longer legs to help prevent the chafing, as
> well as the classic long Capilene's for general warmth, especially around
camp.
>
> OrangeBug
> "crapulence" was my spell checker's attempt to deal with Capilene.
>
> At 04:33 PM 1/14/03 -0600, t. wrote:
> >that was the spell checker's word for undies.
>
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