What colour & thickness was the shirt? I've never managed to burn through silk, but I wear only dark colours (navy blue, black, or burgundy). The silk shirts I've used to keep the sun off of me have been of a thick enough fabric/tight enough weave that even the huge swarms of mosquitoes in the Brooks Range*, Alaska don't bite through the fabric.
Your experience has me wondering if the difference between our experience is attributable more to A) differences in the shirts such that mine gave better protection than yours B) differences in body chemistry such that I am sufficiently harder to burn that I require less protection C) differences in local sun intensity/length of time out in it when the shirts were worn?
*Ever stand in a popcorn popper? There so many mosquitoes in the Brooks Range in the summer that they are constantly colliding with geologists as they go about their mapping. Face netting is strongly recommended!
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Date: 2008-05-17 10:34 pm (UTC)Your experience has me wondering if the difference between our experience is attributable more to A) differences in the shirts such that mine gave better protection than yours B) differences in body chemistry such that I am sufficiently harder to burn that I require less protection C) differences in local sun intensity/length of time out in it when the shirts were worn?
*Ever stand in a popcorn popper? There so many mosquitoes in the Brooks Range in the summer that they are constantly colliding with geologists as they go about their mapping. Face netting is strongly recommended!