Originally Posted by
DeerFilm
A big question I have is the Fleet Farm Under Armor type shirt cost about 36 dollars.This is the one that will touch your skin. I can't afford to buy one for each day. So do you wear yours over and over each day? Would it be ok to wear a t-shirt under this, that way I can change my t-shirt each day to prevent stink.Or does that defeat the purpose.
Listen carefully, lean in close: NO COTTON!! You might as well not buy it at all if you're going to wear a shirt underneath it! In fact, don't bother to buy hunting clothes at all if you're going to mess up the whole effort by wearing cotton!
Cotton traps moisture. Moisture makes you cold. (It's the principle by which sweat cools our body.)
Now, the good news about synthetic base-layers: if you wear moisture-wicking, breathable clothes, the area near your body stays dry which means much less bacteria growth which means less stink.
(Think how much less stinky your arm pits would be if you started off really clean and then went shirtless and kept your arms up in the air so that your pits never got hot and sweaty.)
You can wear a hunting base-layer repeatedly without washing. After a number of wearings, as your sniff-test indicates, wash it. No big deal.