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seamusTX wrote:

dicion wrote:Only downside is that I buy a pack of shirts from wal-mart about once every 2 months as I replace them ...

Ya know, ya can wash them.

Mine last several years before the fabric gives out.

- Jim

I'm generally a pretty sweaty guy. Between deodorant, what I do, and other things.. they generally last me 6-8 months until there's rips, burns (heat, welding, and electrical ), drill holes, sawzall cuts, oil or paint stains, etc in certain areas. I just prefer to get new ones. (The sawzall cut only happened once.. and The drill hole part only twice, and they were both just little nicks more then holes... but I had to mention them.)

Luckily our safety guy likes me and all my accidents so far have been really minor. One of my coworkers managed to put my knife 1.5" into his arm one day when I lent it to him. That was messy. (I measured the depth on the blade after they took him to the hospital)

I go through my actual outer shirts just as much. Luckily the company supplies those, they've even stopped asking why I need new ones so often. The first few times, I had to bring my old ones in to show them

seamusTX wrote:Here on the sandbar, when the temperature is over 90, your clothes are going to be soaked from the skin out with any kind of outdoor physical exertion. The undershirt just slows down the process.

Howsomever, the undershirt keeps the outer shirt from clinging to your body and thus causing printing.

- Jim

A cotton undershirt also wicks away sweat quicker, stays moist longer, and breathes better, keeping you cooler.

Before I moved down here, I never wore an undershirt. Didn't for the first summer I was down here either... That was a bad idea
Tried it on the advice of a co-worker. It makes a WORLD of difference if you're out working in it all day long, even here in Humidity City.
I will forever wear fitted cotton undershirts from now on They really do work extremely well.

Only downside is that I buy a pack of shirts from wal-mart about once every 2 months as I replace them
but they're cheap and easily replaced