When did vests become "Base Layers"

[Kestevan]

When I was a lad, a vest was a vest.

And you got 3 for a pound down the market.

 

[Fab Foodie]

When they found out they could fleece-you for £25?

 

[Noodley]

When they found out they could fleece-you for £25?

Unless it's a merino base layer and they can fleece you even more

 

[Tim Bennet.]

Unless it's a merino base layer and they can fleece you even more

For anyone who can get to Kendal, all the Icebreaker brand trade samples of their merino base layers are being sold off cheap at the Kendal Mountain Film Festival this weekend. They're in the marquee outside the Brewery Arts Centre. (Only Men's large and Women's medium).

 

[upsidedown]

When Helly Hansen and North Face realised that by putting their name on them they became "technical".

Over-priced tat.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Unless it's a merino base layer and they can fleece you even more

Baallocks

 

[MajorMantra]

'Vest' can refer to all manner of undershirt type things. A base layer generally has some properties (wicking etc.) that make it more suitable for strenuous activity.

Matthew

 

[snorri]

When I was a lad, a vest was a vest..

Blinkin' heck, I just dicovered a vest was actually a semmit, and now you're telling me it's a base layer, what'll be next?

 

[Kestevan]

.......make it more suitable for strenuous activity

My old man used to work 12+ hour days, 6 days a week in a bloody foundry. Wearing a string vest under his shirt; how much more strenuous do you want to get?

Soft git... probably thinks cycling is "hard work".... that's what he did on his day off

 

[slowmotion]

.......make it more suitable for strenuous activity

My old man used to work 12+ hour days, 6 days a week in a bloody foundry. Wearing a string vest under his shirt; how much more strenuous do you want to get?

Soft git... probably thinks cycling is "hard work".... that's what he did on his day off

You were lucky....

 

[MajorMantra]

.......make it more suitable for strenuous activity

My old man used to work 12+ hour days, 6 days a week in a bloody foundry. Wearing a string vest under his shirt; how much more strenuous do you want to get?

Soft git... probably thinks cycling is "hard work".... that's what he did on his day off

So is that how you dress for cycling?

Matthew

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Did it happen at the same time as polytechnics became Universities and suddenly everyone was a friggin genius gradute...

 

[dellzeqq]

vests are good. M+S long sleeved thermal vests see me through the winter, and cost £12 each - none of your fancy dan base layers thankyou very much!

 

[Dayvo]

For anyone who can get to Kendal, all the Icebreaker brand trade samples of their merino base layers are being sold off cheap at the Kendal Mountain Film Festival this weekend. They're in the marquee outside the Brewery Arts Centre. (Only Men's large and Women's medium).

Is this anything to do with the wearing of your wife's underwear thread?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

When they found out they could fleece-you for £25?

The mid layer is when they fleece you, after that you have to shell out.