WoolWeenies Club

**Crankin** · 01-20-2009, 06:25 AM

Emily, hope your job situation improves. So glad you got hooked on Ibex. I have been living in my black and brown full zip Shaks. Then on the other days I wear my Shak hoodies or my Icebreaker stuff! Well, next week I go back to classes at the university, so I will have to rotate my clothes a little more.
I don't know what I would have done without Lisa hooking me on this stuff!

**BleeckerSt_Girl** · 01-20-2009, 08:02 AM

Originally Posted by Crankin

I don't know what I would have done without Lisa hooking me on this stuff!

Well, you could have been vacationing in Tahiti or something, with all the money you would have saved.

I do think the Ibex full zip black Shak has to be the ONE item that most encompasses the WoolWeenie spirit....it should be our flagship.

**GLC1968** · 01-20-2009, 09:23 AM

Originally Posted by BleeckerSt_Girl

I do think the Ibex full zip black Shak has to be the ONE item that most encompasses the WoolWeenie spirit....it should be our flagship.

I agree. Here's a challenge for everyone who has a black full zip shak...

Take a photo of yourself wearing it (or post one if you already have one!) and post it here! Let's put together a wool-weenie collage!

**divingbiker** · 01-20-2009, 02:39 PM

Originally Posted by BleeckerSt_Girl

I do think the Ibex full zip black Shak has to be the ONE item that most encompasses the WoolWeenie spirit....it should be our flagship.

Yeah, my black Shak got me through some chilly airplane rides and evenings in Mexico over the past 5 days. I love it.

Not sure if anyone got a picture of me in it.

**Laru** · 01-20-2009, 02:41 PM

Hi Weenies,
I come to publicly prostrate myself before the Wool God and profess my undying love and devotion to all that is wool. I love wool. Wool is the Way. I care not for un-wool things. Let the Wool shine down on me.
Ah-men

quick question: can anyone help me with a fit issue? I got an Ibex woolie crew in size L. It fits great except its too short for me. I do kinda have a longer torso, I suppose. I wonder if I try an XL is the length going to increase much? I could use a good 2 or 3 inches more in length and I like the fit otherwise....

**Eden** · 01-20-2009, 03:13 PM

I'm not sure I put myself in the weenie category, though I'm rediscovering it now that there is washable wool (I love wool socks if that counts...), but I pulled a good coup yesterday. $1.99 for a Neve sweater - soft, warm, cozy and good looking.

**Biciclista** · 01-20-2009, 03:18 PM

Originally Posted by Eden

I'm not sure I put myself in the weenie category, though I'm rediscovering it now that there is washable wool (I love wool socks if that counts...), but I pulled a good coup yesterday. $1.99 for a Neve sweater - soft, warm, cozy and good looking.

so how did you buy a sweater for $1.99? where?

**Eden** · 01-20-2009, 03:21 PM

Thrift store find - my other best find is a pair of brand new Kenneth Cole shoes for $10

**Crankin** · 01-20-2009, 03:23 PM

Here's my picture:

**BleeckerSt_Girl** · 01-20-2009, 04:00 PM

Wow Robyn, that shak fits you perfectly! Nice fireplace.

Laru- I bet if you call Ibex they will be all too happy to measure the length difference for you right over the phone- they are very helpful women over there.

**Grog** · 01-20-2009, 05:17 PM

I only have a full-zip in the Boucle. My black Shak is a hoodie.

What do I do? Does that mean I'm not woolweenie?!

**BleeckerSt_Girl** · 01-20-2009, 05:29 PM

I would say any kind of Ibex SHAK would qualify- full zip, half zip, hooded....any color.

And if you have no shak, it does NOT mean you are not a wool weenie! A wool weenie just loves any kind of wool.
If anyone wants to issue a call for pix of any other item they think others might have too- feel free to do so!

We are one!

**Triskeliongirl** · 01-20-2009, 06:27 PM

OK, here goes. Here is one my son took of me in portugal last month in my black shak. Notice I also discovered SCARVES on this holiday. The one in the pic was a xmass gift from my kids. This one is not wool, but the kids also bought me a beautiful wool one I wore a lot as me moved to colder places. The pose was my son's idea too, not quite sure what it means but he liked it, something about being a 'cool mom'.

**OakLeaf** · 01-20-2009, 06:36 PM

I don't own a Shak... and I'm not a big fan of zippers on close-fitting apparel. But here's me last year in my Duofold wool crew - and I'm glad I pulled out this picture, because this is right after the finish of the same race I'm doing Saturday, and inspiration for a better time this year.

**Cataboo** · 01-20-2009, 07:01 PM

I just picked up my brown shak fullzip from REI tonight, I haven't gotten around to looking at it - just came back from a ski trip.

Some of the guys over on goingprepared.com are reporting finding icebreaker ski and hiking socks at TJmaxx lately. Apparently on Jan 22nd, it's going to be 15% off purchases at Tjmaxx or Marshalls nationwide (they're the same store). A friend I saw in Salt Lake had found a really nice smartwool v neck sweater with striped arms at a Tjmaxx in Salt Lake. I let her wear my ibex backcountry pants one night in Jackson Hole, and barely managed to pry them away from her.

I found a smartwool bike jersey for $25 at the REI superclearance in Salt Lake... I also dropped into the patagonia outlet in salt lake which was doing a 30% off everything sale and was quite upset to find an empty rack with a "merino wool cardigan $30" sign over it. But I got a lot of the nice patagonia organic cotton & hemp stuff to make up for it.

Time to wash all my wool, it & I did pretty well skiing.

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