WoolWeenies Club

[elk]

So...I havn't read backwards yet...but I am assuming you gals got some nicey wooly presents this year???

I got this: http://www.rei.com/product/757199?vcat=REI_SEARCH
in black...and I have been wearing it practically 24/7....
It fits beautifully and is muy soft...

p.s. to Sandra....I DO have to send that "form fitting" icebreaker top back...now I know!
this smartwool sweater in XL is sexy!

pps to all Woolweenies ( why WEENIES??? it takes a tough woman to chose wool!!) Are you ready for the onslaught of SALE!!! emails you are about to recieve??? I'm afraid to look...

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I got this: http://www.rei.com/product/757199?vcat=REI_SEARCH
in black...and I have been wearing it practically 24/7....
It fits beautifully and is muy soft...

p.s. to Sandra....I DO have to send that "form fitting" icebreaker top back...now I know!
this smartwool sweater in XL is sexy!

pps to all Woolweenies ( why WEENIES??? it takes a tough woman to chose wool!!) Are you ready for the onslaught of SALE!!! emails you are about to recieve??? I'm afraid to look...

Elk,
That is one good lookin Smartwool sweater!! I don't suppose we could get to see a picture of you in it? It is very elegant.
I have a Smartwool midweight zip turtleneck in black from last year that I wear a lot- it's very soft and thick. It's a bit form fitting what with those tapered side seams, so when I'm having a "feeling fat day" I wear it underneath as a warm base layer. (....she says while making a serious dent in her 1 lb. box of Xmas hand dipped chocolate covered cherries as we speak)

I avoid ordering Icebreaker stuff partly due to their main blonde model who is seemingly shaped like a graceful giraffe: http://www.icebreaker.com/site/icebr..._rock_zip.html
- those clothes look so long and thin they don't seem like any of them could ever possibly fit me! I have ample hips. I have sturdy thighs. But I have a small waist and I'm not overweight, mind you. But that Icebreaker model looks like she is from another planet than the one I came from. ;-D

I don't remember who it was who suggested starting the "Wool Weenie" thread and naming it that...it was Knot who actually started the thread going, after a bunch of us wool nuts talked about wanting to start a special thread where we could go on and on about wool clothes and compare notes on specific items and alert each other to sales, etc. But I can't remember who specifically suggested the name "wool weenies"- was it Knot? Dianyla? Trek?
I think the word weenie was meant as in a nerd, like a computer nerd or something. A wool nut/wool weenie, something like that, beats me.

This is the place to post questions about wool clothes, since all of us wool crazies surely check this thread regularly and together we have pooled a large amount of collective experience and "cardal knowledge" (get it? ha ha).

I did NOT get any wool for Xmas- but that's OK! It's because my DH is a Wool Weiner too, and so the two of us just get wool for ourselves as we see fit and whenever there is a clear need. We don't buy each other wool because we each know exactly what we want and need in our own wardrobe. For xmas we get each other good books, chocolates, biking goodies, and little things. We have an understanding that works well.

[elk]

i know what you mean about the Icebreaker model...a giraffe from a very very cold climate...Sweden...maybe Germany...cold....cold cold...and thin and rather dry....

i love the Ibex F models....they all look like my cousins..

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

i love the Ibex F models....they all look like my cousins..

Yes, exactly! (laughing my butt off here while wiping chocolate off my chin)

Who would you rather get lost in frozen Siberia with, I ask you?

http://www.ibex.com/Photos/F07/208_2722.jpg
or
http://www.icebreaker.com/icebreaker...134102_cwh.jpg

...The first one would sing you comforting songs while you both huddled together against the cold.
...The second one would strangle you in your sleep and eat your liver while it was still warm.

[KnottedYet]

EEEEEEEWWWWWWWWW!!!!!

I love my Icebreaker, but that model would turn me off Icebreaker in a second!

eeeeewwwwwwwwwww....

(BTW, I'm built like Annie Lennox, though I look nothing like her, and my Icebreaker zip turtleneck fits over my waist and hips beautifully.)

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

(BTW, I'm built like Annie Lennox, though I look nothing like her, and my Icebreaker zip turtleneck fits over my waist and hips beautifully.)

Hey, I'm built like Annie Lennox too....maybe we should start a "Built Like Annie Lennox" thread??

[KnottedYet]

"eat your liver while it was still warm"

Oh, my Lawrd, Lisa, you are SOOOOO funny!