We have had a lot of question of what we wear when the weather grows cold, so this is me trying to write it out for you, hope you understand what I mean!
In short, we wear a lot of wool!
Tova
1. I often wear a woolen bra or sports bra. Cotton socks and thicker woolen socks.
2. A camisole/tank top that is a blend of merino wool and silk.
3. A thin merino wool base layer, pants and sweater
4. A knitted wool jumper/sweater
5. Pants with some wind stopping material, thick cotton, wadmal/tweed fabric, hiking pants.
6. If it’s real cold also a thicker wool pants between the base layer and the “outer pant”.
7. Jacket in wool or cotton.
8. Hat made of wool, a cotton scarf (actually I use one of Ivar’s old cloth diapers as scarf, perfect size) and either working gloves or knitted wool gloves.
Ivar
1. A woolen tank top or t-shirt.
2. A thin merino base layer, pants and sweater. Thin wool socks, a thin pair of cotton socks and then thicker woollen socks.
3. Another layer of woolen pants and sweater, a bit thicker than the base layer
4. Woolen sweatpants and a knitted wool sweater.
When we go outside, depending on how cold it is, I either keep all of above clothing on him or I remove the sweatpants and/or thick sweater so it doesn’t get too warm under the outer clothes.
5. The outer clothes consist either of a woolen overall or my old set of thicker padded cotton jacket and pant.
6. A balaclava under his wool hat (or his leather/wool hat) and his felted wool boots. A thin wool glove underneath knitted woolen gloves.
When Ivar sleeps during the day he sleeps in his carrier outside, there he most often wear number 1-3 plus a knitted sweater, thin gloves and the balaclava. He sleeps in a kind of sleeping bag made with wool in the bottom and feather in the top, also a sheep skin in the carrier at the bottom. In the sleeping bag he has a thin alpaca blanket. If it’s real cold he also has a wool blanket on top of the sleeping bag.
As you can see we really enjoy the benefits from wool!
Its warm when its cold outside and its cool when its warm outside, it breathes, it transports the moisture away from you skin, it can “wash itself”, just hang the garments outside over night, and it always looks good on you! Love it!
EDIT
Many of you have asked what brands we use/have in wool clothing, its a hard question because we have clothes from many different places and we are not 100% happy with any of them, the base-layers, haven’t found the “perfect” wool clothing brand yet. The brands of base-layers we have tried are among others:
Aclima, Dilling, Janus, icebreaker, Ruskovilla, Kari Traa and probably some more that I don’t remember right now. Recently I have bought things both to me and Ivar from Dilling and they seem good, but time will tell how the quality turns out to be.
