>>2292521Sounds like bollocks
>>2292525Okay woolfren, I respect your love for the material and you list many great qualities of it, but I have to correct some common misconceptions
>Wool retains 80% of its insulation value while wet. Synthetic has ZERO insulation value while wet.This isn't true. Wool AND synthetic fleece stay lofted while wet, therefore both insulate the same amount on a purely loft based level. However, fleece is polyester and therefore hydrophobic - you can take off your saturated fleece, wring it out and swirl it around your head to throw off the water droplets, and it will be 90% dry and won't cling on to that water. Whereas wool, once the lanolin oil stops working, has hollow fibres that suck up water like spongebob trying to bathe Gary, and do NOT want to let it go.
Source: I have worn a Swanndri bush shirt in heavy rain - for hours, its oils and felted weave resisted the water, and it was very comfy - until it wasn't. It became saturated, and I do not exaggerate when I say it took a week to fully dry at home. Yes you could build a fire and sit by it for hours in your damp wool - or you could wring your fleece version of the same garment out, and be warm and much drier without the fire. Also, you can dry synthetic by a fire, just not on top of it.
>Get your synthetics wet, and you're fucked.Nigga what? What are wetsuits lined with? Have you never heard of a buffalo jacket, which is a synthetic version of Inuit animal fur suits - in a good pertex/pile combo, you can jump in the Antarctic Ocean, climb out and be warm while soaked on the shore.
>And they also don't breathe, so condensation builds up inside and you sweat.While yes, even dense felted wool is nice and breathable, synthetic windproof material can be very breathable too, allowing vapour to leave but blocking wind. I wear an Austrian army fleece with a windproof lining, and it never gets sweaty unless I'm actually perspiring into it, and like wool it's actively wicking
