Originally Posted by
chrisx
Are your wool items 50% nylon?
100% merino wool shrinks in the dryer, every brand. I thought I could dry my Icebreaker shirt half way in the dryer. I wore it a couple if times to see if it would stretch. I gave it to a skinny short girl, about half my weight.
78% wool socks can go in the dryer. Unless you enjoy giving away $80 shirts, keep them out of the dryer.
Do wear wool shirts on your bike tour. Do not wash them on a rainy day. The heat of your body will dry them as you cycle.
Try silk, it works, 1,000,000 chinese can not be wrong.
I wear Icebreaker (100% merino). I wash them
cold-water-only and dry them using
medium-low-heat in dryer AND pull them before they are super-dry. Shrinkage has not been an issue.
Yes I've also done the dry-on-body thing and it works...but prefer using a dryer on a wash day, while on tour.
Silk doesn't have the same anti-stink & warmth-when-wet attributes as wool --> not a substitute IMO.