>>2313328you've never soaked your wool or read anything about fibre structures and you failed basic physics.
1. Animal hair is not what we are talking about. Animals have a layer of guard hairs and dense under hair, and constantly produce repellant oils. Their fur is attached to their skin so they can shake off some water. They also stay out of the rain and regularly die of exposure and hypothermia because their fur is not waterproof or warm when wet.
2. Nothing is warm when wet - wet conducts and evaporates your heat away. Wool fibres absorb a ridiculous amount of water and dense wool knit holds lots of water between the fibres. Wool is cold. Don't believe me? Shower in your wool and stand outside in a breeze. Now imagine you are 1000m above sea level in an exposed area in a storm wearing said wool.
>wool is warm when wetThis meme needs to die.
