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droid
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14 years ago

#21

Are we talking 'furry' or 'fleece' here?

derrickman
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14 years ago

#22

how do you define the difference?

I would take 'furry' ( in this context ) as meaning a synthetic fleece material with a raised pile on one side, like those trapper caps everyone is wearing right now, and 'fleece' as the same synthetic material with smooth nap on both sides - like a Berghaus jacket, for example.

there are other meanings of 'furry', some of them things you'd probably prefer to avoid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_convention .. but I don't take that to be the case in this context :blink:

One thing I certainly wouldn't recommend is the 'fish-fur' ( ie bearing no relation to any real fur ) wool-pile fabric much used by the Soviet Army for coat collars, ushanka etc. It's very warm but disgusting and very heavy when wet :thumbdown:

''the stopes soared beyond the range of our caplamps' - David Bick...... How times change .... oh, I don't know, I've still got a lamp like that.

RichardLevett
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14 years ago

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"Tamarmole" wrote:
The answer. odd as it sounds, might not be to worry about staying dry - staying warm is probably more important. That being the case it might be worth investing in a good quality fleece furry suit and bung a bog standard boiler suit over it. A decent fury will keep you warm even when wet.

Agreed, that's what I do. A £15 boiler suit from Boyes lasted me a year before the arse ripped out of it.

droid
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"derrickman" wrote:
how do you define the difference?

I would take 'furry' ( in this context ) as meaning a synthetic fleece material with a raised pile on one side, like those trapper caps everyone is wearing right now, and 'fleece' as the same synthetic material with smooth nap on both sides - like a Berghaus jacket, for example.

I'd say that a 'furry' is furry, like the original thermal jackets of the mid '70s, and 'fleece' isn't.

In other words, I agree with your definition.

I was just interested to know if we were all talking about the same material.