BEST SPORTS FABRIC: POLARTEC
Back in the hairy-chested olden days, outdoor types wore wool - warm, sure, but also heavy, itchy, soggy and prone to mildew after a few days balled up in a knapsack. Then, in the early 1980's, Maiden Mills in Massachusetts ·Introduced Polartec fleece, and alfresco adventure got comfy. A lightweight synthetic knit fiber, Polartec is best known for its ability to wick moisture away from the skin and its high warmth-to-weight ratio, so there's no more shivering in a damp cotton T-shirt after pumping your bike up Dead Man's Hill. Nowadays the Polartec line has grown to more than 150 fabrics that can alternately warm, cool, dry, insulate, bre, block wind and rain, keep you smelling like springtime and even radiate heat with battery power.
Polartec, from Maiden Mills, Lawrence, MA
www.polartec.com.
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