Stumbled across this link on a search. New goods from Polartec.
Among them, a new version of Alpha Direct. Now married to wool somehow. Appropriately, it’s called Alpha Direct with Wool (style #4048).
Seems really intriguing. Traditional Alpha Direct is not a wicking fabric so isn’t well-suited for next-to-skin use. But this new stuff with wool would appear to facilitate use as a base layer. At 153 gsm, it’d be a reasonably not-heavy base layer.
My reading of its construction (63% polyester, 33% wool, 4% nylon) is that that the wool is reasonably thin & is reinforced by the nylon?
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