Originally Posted by
rpenmanparker
That is bizarre advice. You can't keep fluid in the body by soaking it into a shirt. Wut? Actually I liked reading that, because it shows that no idea is too dumb for somebody to believe it. It makes you wonder about what folks are saying about base layers today.
No, but you can keep fluid in the body (perspiration) by not calling for more cooling. That's the theory behind an evaporative base layer, that it keeps the body cooler with less total perspiration. Up to you whether you want to believe it or not..