Performance, comfort and fit, as well as fiber content and environmental impact are high on Rooted to Nature's list of selection criteria for comfortable and breathable natural fiber clothing. Wool has the widest comfort range of any natural fiber in the world. We usually think of wool as only a cold weather garment, but traditional peoples have worn it for thousands of years in both summer and winter. Wool is extremely breathable for evaporating sweat. You can work out for hours and stay dry.

You can exercise for days without washing wool yet have no more stinky jersey. “You’ll Wonder Where the BO Went”, in the July 3, 2006 U. S. News and World Report, described what athletes have come to recognize as a disadvantage to synthetic fabrics in athletic clothing: they wick away sweat but hang on to odor. The reporter exercised in a wool t-shirt and noted that it “didn’t smell afterward and was cute enough to pass as street wear.” Wool is a permanently and naturally non-odor fiber that doesn’t look like it just came from the gym.

A wool cycling shirt was Outside magazine’s number one pick, of all shirts of any fabric, in their Summer 2006 review. Magazine reviews from Vogue to Backpacker to U.S. News and World Report gave the highest marks to the new wool technical and sports clothing. Gone is itchy, prickly and heavy. According to Icebreaker CEO, Germy Moon, the new gear is “light, soft, machine washable and gorgeous.” When you wear wool, you know the difference.