so, i have a super thin gap merino wool hoodie
http://www.gap.com/browse/product.do...032&tid=gofr1r
that i got for 20 bucks
and i layered over a cotton organic tee with my conduit dt mountain hardwear shell on top.

kept me nice and warm, cept for the zipper in crosswinds and my neck in a tuck(the wool is really thin so it has zero wind resistance, even for wool)... but for twenty bucks it makes the pain of not having a bosun/orion a little more manageable.

the conduit dt is old, and breathes pretty terribly, but this evening was cold enough to keep me from sweating into the merino.

also...
looks better than it did at interbike with unamused model

so yeah... merino wool is awesome. and the gap style looks great and is pretty darn high quality for what it is. it fits me well. some gap stuff is sized 'small' and i swim in it, and some is cut very flatteringly. i worked at a gap and the quality variance in that store is ****ing shameful. plus, you overpay 50% for every single thing in the store at msrp, sometimes 90%.

luckily at 30% of the msrp, this merino gap hoodie is one of the flattering cuts and i think i got a deal.