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  • From: Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] cool farm footwear, now summer socks
  • Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 12:18:25 -0400


On Jul 23, 2011, at 11:39 AM, alicia best wrote:

  i was raised outdoors and always taught that cotton kills, esp when wet.


If you were going to be travelling through winter wilderness, or otherwise outdoors in cold weather and unable to get your feet warm, that might well be true. It's not true in hot weather.

Summer heat rash is no fun. Being told by stores that I don't want cotton anyway because some poly mix is better is extremely annoying, because, while that might be true for some people, polyester tight against the skin makes me itch like crazy. (This is also annoying when all the wool hats on the market are lined with polyester "so they won't itch". If the weather's cold enough for me to wear a wool hat, then wool doesn't make me itch; but poly does.)


-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale






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