Cheap Thermals

General Description

The upcoming winter may be quite cold! I've fallen in love with thermal shirts (and at times pants). They're surprisingly warm for being so thin. I'm just frustrated by the outrageous prices stores charge for simple, white thermals. I was at "Le Atelier" in New York last summer, and they had a plain white thermal for $80! Granted it was from a famous Japanese label, it was still outrageous!

Key Features

Thermal coats are made with of mesh threads to keep you really warm. Warn with T-shirts, you get a punky, youth look, but since they're white they can even be warn with long sleeve collared shirts. Thermal pants can be warn under jeans, but it might get a little tight. Speaking of tights, they might work better. Polypropylene tights for pants are slightly more expensive than the regular stuff.

The other consideration is to get smaller sizes since they tend to stretch, and that's a good thing. The downside I've found is that since they're so tight to your body, they tend to get smelly after one use. (Another reason to get them cheap!) You might need to wash the items, though, because they smell like an army store sometimes. I wash them like regular underwear.

Major Brands

The best place to get cheap thermals is army surplus stores, and I don't mean Uncle Sam's on 8th street, which charges through the roof. Online stores often have good deals on new stuff; this isn't ebay. "Expensive" looking surplus places probably won't have a good deal, like any surplus place in Manhattan, for that matter.

Army Barracks has the best deals I've found for thermals. Check out other winter stuff, too.

• Thermal shirts at $5 in S - XL
• Thermal pants at $5 in S - XL

That's pretty good!

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