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2. The best merino wool base layers

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   While there doesn't seem to be a universally accepted guide to GSM (what is lightweight to some might be deemed mid-weight to others), a merino wool base layer around the 170 GSM range generally ...

3. Icebreaker (clothing) - Wikipedia

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   The company began by specialising in the creation of merino base layers and now offers underwear, mid layers, outer wear, socks and accessories based on natural fibres. Icebreaker was founded in 1995 by Jeremy Moon , and now supplies its clothing to more than 4,700 stores in 50 countries.

4. Layered clothing - Wikipedia

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   Layered clothing usually consists of three layers. They are identified as follows: [citation needed] The inner layer provides comfort by keeping the skin dry. Also called base layer or first layer. The mid layer provides warmth. Also called an insulating layer. The shell layer protects the other two layers from wind and/or water.

5. Wool measurement - Wikipedia

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   Every fleece comprises a very wide range of fibre diameters—for example a typical Merino fleece will contain fibres of as low as 10 microns in diameter, and there could be fibres with diameters exceeding 25 microns, depending on the age and health (or nutrition) of the sheep. What is usually referred to as wool's "micron" is the mean of the ...

6. Merino - Wikipedia

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   Full wool Merino sheep Merino sheep and red goats. Madrid, Spain. The Merino is a breed or group of breeds of domestic sheep, characterised by very fine soft wool.It was established in Spain near the end of the Middle Ages, and was for several centuries kept as a strict Spanish monopoly; exports of the breed were not allowed, and those who tried risked capital punishment.

7. Clothing insulation - Wikipedia

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   an outer close-knit or closely woven layer as a wind breaker, usually thin — if there is a risk of precipitation this should be impermeable, the ideal being a textile that stops water droplets but allows water vapor to pass so as to remove evaporated sweat (a textile of this sort is said to "breathe");