antimocrobial again

ANOTHER HEART WARMING TESTIMONIAL

It has been cold in Virginia, sometimes in single digits. I ride a fat tire electric mountain bike to check my trail cameras around the farm. The insulated head cover keeps my head warm. I can wear it with a cap or without. If it gets too warm I wear it with the top pulled back. Another nice feature I can wear my bike helmet over it. I also like the way the front and back tuck into my shirt or jacket. The renegade mittens keep my hands and fingers warm. My fingers would start freezing up [almost numb] when I changed sd cards and batteries in the cameras. My fingers and hands warmed up quickly. I also wear the Lamilite socks, fishnet top, and liners. The insulated poncho liner just arrived and it fits perfectly. Wiggy's is the best!

– Tom Marchant

What I am learning from the many customers that Wiggy’s has are the variety of activities they are involved in and the different products they have bought from Wiggy’s that have made their activity more enjoyable. I am also observing that these people are using several items while engaged in the activity as expressed by Tom in his testimonial. Tom is not the first person to comment as such.

Tom, Thank you very much!!!

ANTIMICROBIALS

This past week I read a solicitation by the military for hundreds of thousands of pair of socks that are made from 85 percent cotton and the balance nylon and spandex. These socks also must be treated with an antimicrobial chemical. Big deal!!!

In recent years we have learned of the multitude of foot problems that military personnel have been dealing with which includes infections. The military way of combating the problem is having the troops wear socks that are treated with an antimicrobial chemical applied to the fabric.

They either do not recognize the reason for the problem or refuse to accept the reason. As such they further refuse to take the steps to correct the causes of the problem. The reason for the problem is wet feet. Wearing cotton fabric socks will only perpetuate the problem regardless of the antimicrobial chemical added to the cotton fabric. The cause of the problem is the boots worn by the troops being made with a film that traps the moisture in the boots; to the best of my knowledge the film happens to be Gore-Tex.

As we now know when feet are permitted to stay wet as happens when you wear cotton or even wool socks a very fertile area is provided to perpetuate the growth of bacteria that attacks the feet. Wearing footwear that traps the moisture is actually known to the people who write the specifications for footwear, but to date these people have not made any effort to change the footwear.

Antimicrobial chemicals being applied to clothing has developed for use in clothing worn by people who are actively involved in aerobic activities or other activities that cause the human to sweat. Someone determined that sweating was not a good thing because it created microbes, and that is bad.

The military in the past 40 years has adopted somethings that were developed for the consumer market and even if the product did not work it was incorporated into some products primarily because they wanted what was being used for civilians. The civilian market was in my opinion hood winked by the companies that promoted their products as waterproof and breathable or they had an insulation that was a replacement for down (which it was since its inception in 1960 called polyester fiberfill) Primaloft was a day late and a dollar short. But this is the direction the military chose to go even though I believe they knew the products were bogus.

So now that the antimicrobials are in vogue in the consumer market the military says we want that as well.

The foot problems will not come to an end until the films used in boots are terminated and the socks are changed to socks that do not retain the moisture from the foot. A hint; Lamilite socks!!!

And all of these failures are paid for with tax dollars!!!