BS: Wet T-Shirts

Subject: BS: Wet T-Shirts
From: Mr Red
Date: 18 Jul 16 - 06:08 PM

On a night of Set Dancing in a hot hall on a hot Sunday last. As I hurried back to position with a dry T-Shirt. (I used all 5 that night - final one was to go home in).
A dancing acquaintance remarked recently that she had once packed her suitcase for flight and worked the weight to the limit.
On return she had to pay excess baggage because the clothes were packed "as worn" - damp.

Solution is, I suppose, to attempt to use the hot weather to dry them as much as possible. But when you are having fun, you don't think of these things.

Subject: RE: BS: Wet T-Shirts
From: Senoufou
Date: 18 Jul 16 - 06:28 PM

I always pack about forty - ahem- 'items of underwear' when I travel to W Africa. Your clothes get soaked in sweat. I felt a bit sorry for the Customs Official at Gatwick on my return who decided to ferret about in my small suitcase. Forty damp XL pants , and several damp other things too. Yeeew.
He probably thought I was a notorious Knicker Smuggler. Hope he washed his hands afterwards!

Subject: RE: BS: Wet T-Shirts
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Jul 16 - 10:07 PM

I shan't go into it, but a wet tee shirt can be mighty chilling in a brisk wind.

Subject: RE: BS: Wet T-Shirts
From: Senoufou
Date: 19 Jul 16 - 03:16 AM

Hee hee Rap!

Subject: RE: BS: Wet T-Shirts
From: Mr Red
Date: 19 Jul 16 - 04:51 AM

FWIW I prefer natural cotton because it absorbs more than artificial fibres. Despite protestations of a friend who insists artificial fibres wick faster.
Yes faster, but in a hot hall where is the evaporation/cooling? And how much can they hold? Give me 64 red cotton T-Shirts than a handfull of artificial frippery. And that is not enough for 8 days at Sidmouth.
When I remove them they end up inside out, and that is how they get washed & dried. It tells me, at a glance, which have been worn and reduces fading on the correct side when drying in the sun.

Subject: RE: BS: Wet T-Shirts
From: Ed T
Date: 19 Jul 16 - 06:45 AM

Another use for hemp, clothing:)
Hemp clothing absorbs and releases perspiration quickly.

Hemp 

Subject: RE: BS: Wet T-Shirts
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jul 16 - 07:56 AM

My clothing gets softer and softer as I wear it and then gets so stiff you can't bend it by hitting it with a hammer. Also, the color (or colour) gets grayer and grayer as I wear it. Last night I stood it up in the corner and I swear it moved!

Any ideas as to what's going on?

Subject: RE: BS: Wet T-Shirts
From: Manitas_at_home
Date: 19 Jul 16 - 08:21 AM

You have to wash them from time to time.

Subject: RE: BS: Wet T-Shirts
From: Senoufou
Date: 19 Jul 16 - 08:23 AM

Sweaty clothing dries stiff.

My husband many years ago hung his newly-washed underpants outside on the line in the snow. He was amazed later and came running to me saying "My pants! They have turned to concrete!" They were frozen stiff.

In Africa you can't wear anything synthetic or even cotton/polyester. You just can't. It's 40 degrees and very humid, you'd collapse. I've had on a long cotton skirt and left a circle of sweat on the ground where I stood. It was literally dripping off the hem.

Subject: RE: BS: Wet T-Shirts
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jul 16 - 02:30 PM

40 degrees is just above freezing. I thought Africa was hot (except perhaps on top of Kilimanjaro).

Subject: RE: BS: Wet T-Shirts
From: Senoufou
Date: 19 Jul 16 - 03:42 PM

Rap, Centigrade, Centigrade!! We gave up Fahrenheit years ago!

I went to a Ladies' Group last week and we were given a talk by a lady who organises knitting for overseas charities. She told us they were knitting for an orphanage in Gambia, 'lovely jumpers for young children'. I very politely asked if it wasn't maybe a bit too hot there for jumpers? She replied that 'it was probably a bit chilly there at night' I've been in Gambia loads of times, and it's bloody boiling hot day and night. If you put a nice woolly jumper on a child, they'd overheat and collapse! Still, the thought was there...

Subject: RE: BS: Wet T-Shirts
From: Mr Red
Date: 20 Jul 16 - 03:52 AM

Senoufou - First song on the list - Knittershanty (listen or read out loud - songs are for the hearing thereof, after all)
enjoy.

Subject: RE: BS: Wet T-Shirts
From: Senoufou
Date: 20 Jul 16 - 06:21 AM

Rap, I'm as daft as a brush, I was mistaken - we use Celsius, not Centigrade.
(I've no idea what the difference is)

Subject: RE: BS: Wet T-Shirts
From: Senoufou
Date: 20 Jul 16 - 06:25 AM

Mr Red, hahahaha! Loved it! So many double-entendres! "Yaaaaarn"

Subject: RE: BS: Wet T-Shirts
From: Mr Red
Date: 20 Jul 16 - 10:24 AM

Double? re-read and overlap the concepts and you will get 4 meanings on one line. (hint - neck tidemark refers)
It is a fine example of collaboration. I can't take all the credit.

Subject: RE: BS: Wet T-Shirts
From: robomatic
Date: 20 Jul 16 - 03:49 PM

One Summer I flew to Philadelphia for a class in Russian dancing. I was the heaviest and least experienced of the participants hence:
1) Learned the most
2) Sweated the most
I also had the prettiest partner. a Canadian of Ukrainian descent. I brought several dry T shirts to every practise and drank lots of water (to keep my sweat fresh).

We can't always not smell, but we can try to smell nice.

Subject: RE: BS: Wet T-Shirts
From: Senoufou
Date: 20 Jul 16 - 05:04 PM

I always try not to drink too much water when in the Tropics. I know they say you should, but it only makes you need a wee every few minutes, and the sanitation where I've been was usually a stinky hole behind a screen. I noticed that the locals didn't go in for all this drinking fluids until the evening. I often get oedema in UK, but I improve tremendously in very hot countries as all the fluid sweats out and I look much slimmer. Also, eating papaya and mangoes (plus the strong sunshine) is so good for the skin.
Here in UK we've been having a mini heatwave, about 30 degrees. Everyone is exhausted and flopping about, but I do so love the heat.

Subject: RE: BS: Wet T-Shirts
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Jul 16 - 06:16 PM

Watch the old English sci-fi film "The Day The Earth Caught Fire" to get really into the spirit of a heatwave, Senoufou. It's one of the best of the vintage black and white sci-fi films. Fine script, good acting (except for the 10 year old kid), no real need for fancy special effects...just a darned good suspense tale with an uncertain ending.

Subject: RE: BS: Wet T-Shirts
From: Joe Offer
Date: 20 Jul 16 - 06:47 PM

When I opened this thread, I expected to see something that was at least a little bit salacious. Alas, I think the most of us are "of an age" when wet T-shirts are no longer tit-illating....

Subject: RE: BS: Wet T-Shirts
From: Mr Red
Date: 21 Jul 16 - 02:35 AM

Joe, I titled the thread to lighten the subject. Congrats, someone bit.

Somewhere in the UK it got to 33.5C yesterday, the forecast is for a cooler weekend - Warwick Folk Festival so the dancing will be easier.

Subject: RE: BS: Wet T-Shirts
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 Jul 16 - 02:54 AM

It gave me a good chuckle, Mr. Red. Good job!
-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Wet T-Shirts
From: Senoufou
Date: 21 Jul 16 - 04:00 AM

Very good film Little Hawk. I read that they added the church bells at the end to imply that the two polar explosions had succeeded in getting the Earth back on its axis, but it is open to doubt. The films I hate to watch are snowy ones and ones of people lost at sea. I feel cold just looking at them! (and seasick!)

My husband is off to Ivory Coast next week (three flights, so very complicated) to see his extended family. Sadly this time I'm not really well enough to travel that far. He says he's feeling the heat here in UK, so he'll melt in Abidjan! Then off to his ancestral village, Nafamadougou, which is even hotter, being far from the coast up north near the Mali border, and baking savannah . I'm so envious! Maybe next year...

Subject: RE: BS: Wet T-Shirts
From: frogprince
Date: 21 Jul 16 - 09:26 PM

"I think the most of us are "of an age" when wet T-shirts are no longer tit-illating.... "

When you've seen a couple hundred of them...







...there are millions left to go...