When it's hot outside and your body gets overheated you sweat. The water evaporating from your skin is what cools you down. when water vaporized it requires heat to do so. This is what cools your body off in the hot summer time.
I would rather see someone using a umbrella to give them shade that wearing those OVER PRICED Armor Heat Gear clothing. Sorry but somethings are just "MARKETING" and nothing else. I am guess guessing here but I don't really think these things will keep you cooler than staying in the shade. Yes the will wick the sweat away from your skin but that may not cool you down. Simply removing the water away from your skin won't let the water evaporate directly off your skin. And the fabric will hold heat in maybe. I would rather wear a white loose fitting cotton fabric than something tight and restrictive on my body during the hot and humid summer months. Remember when the humidity is so high that your sweat can't evaporate off you and into the air you are going to be smothered and get very hot. Relative Humidity is the amount of moisture the air can hold at various temperatures. The hotter is it the more moisture the air can hold. Cold air is not very humid air but hot summer time air can hold a lot of moisture. If the air is already full of moisture there is no where for the sweat to go. Then you just stew in your own sweat. You need moisture free air blowing over your skin to cool you down and to evaporate the sweat away.
Although the Cold Gear seems like it will work as advertised. When it's cold outside you don't want sweat evaporating off your skin cooling your body down. You want the sweat to be wicked away from your skin not though evaporation but by osmosis. That's what the fibers in the Cold Gear do. They wick the water away from the skin. But so does polypropylene/wool combination long underwear. And the long johns at Walmart will do the same thing for much less money.
I used to play Ice Hockey and wore the polypropylene long johns under my Ice Hockey Gear and it worked great. But then again when you play ice hockey you don't have to worry about getting cold as you are moving around too much and exerting lots of energy and you don't' get cold on the ice. Not unless you are just out there sitting and or standing still. And if you do that you will get checked really fast and thrown on your butt. LOL Eh? Keep your head up and your stick on the ice. Skate Skate Skate! and headman that puck!
Originally Posted by Grumpy
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