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2. Polar fleece - Wikipedia

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   A lightweight, warm and soft fabric, fleece has some of wool's good qualities. Polar fleece garments are traditionally available in the micro, 100, 200, and 300 variants, where the numbers represent the fleece's weight in grams per square meter (gsm). The heavier fleece are warmer. Fleece can range from being high loft to tightly knit.

3. Extreme cold weather clothing - Wikipedia

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   Best practice indicates that for extreme conditions, clothing should be layered and loose. Near the core of the body, a soft, wicking layer is best. Wool or silk underwear is preferred. Then, by preference, a knitted layer of wool or synthetic fleece. A massive insulating layer and a windproof layer complete the ensemble. [citation needed]

4. Clothing insulation - Wikipedia

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   stopping the wind from penetrating and replacing the layer of warm air close to the body Another important factor is humidity . Water is a better conductor of heat than air, thus if clothes are damp — because of sweat , rain, or immersion — water replaces some or all of the air between the fibres of the clothing, causing thermal loss ...

5. Malden Mills - Wikipedia

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   Malden Mills Industries is the original developer and manufacturer of Polartec polar fleece and manufactures other modern textiles. The company is located in Andover, Massachusetts and has operations in Hudson, New Hampshire .

6. Extended Cold Weather Clothing System - Wikipedia

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   Generation III Extended Cold Weather Clothing System ECWCS levels 7 (left) and 5 (right). The Extended Cold Weather Clothing System (ECWCS / ˈ ɛ k w æ k s /) is a protective clothing system developed in the 1980s by the United States Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center, Natick, Massachusetts.

7. Talk:Polar fleece - Wikipedia

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   So I searched for ("backpacking trip" list fleece) (13,700 results) and ("backpacking trip" list "polar fleece") and got 166 results. That means 98.8% of the use is just "fleece" without the "polar". So unless there is some major evidence to the contrary it seems that we should describe the stuff as fleece in the article, with a mention that it ...