>>2248593Surplus and thrifting are the only ways to get cheap wool. But I'd be worried about harmful chemicals with eastern bloc wool desu. Plus they don't look like a mackinaw, do they. You might still find swedish or finnish coats somewhere, but I think they're dried up.
Varusteleka has their blanket shirts, which are probably the cheapest garment made of decent wool fabric you can get. Of course that's what they look like too.
>>2248646High quality fabrics with fewer loose strands are less itchy and stil work with thicker wool. Once you combine that with nylon, it's pretty decent. Look for high quality merino blends with thick wool (they often specify that now). The final stage of that is wool gabardine, very tight and potentially from rather thick wool fibre without itching - but not insulating and frankly not much different from some kind of cotton blend at this point.
