my new Icebreaker top base layer is 100% Merino wool

I was once on a bus in New Zealand.  The driver stopped, got out the bus, went into a field, and helped a Ewe give birth. She then got back in the bus and continued driving.  New Zealanders know sheeps.

There's a street in Chamonix with outdoors shops like Norrona, Arcteryx, Salomon, and so on, all in a row.  Upstairs in one of these shops is an Icebreaker section with base layer tops, leggings, and pants.  I hadn't heard of Icebreaker before, but since forming my preoccupation with Merino Wool content [0] [1] [2], I was bound to discover them. 

[0] <https://wibblement.blogspot.com/2024/07/do-merino-socks-have-44-merino-wool.html>

[1] <https://wibblement.blogspot.com/2025/01/if-sock-is-20-merino-wool-is-it-merino.html>

[2] <https://wibblement.blogspot.com/2025/03/my-loffler-leggings-are-probably-63.html>

The 200 series of base layers, tops and bottoms, are 100% wool.  The pants are slightly problematic, being eighty-something percent.  I bought as much as I could carry.

Icebreaker is headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand.  According to the label, my top is manufactured in Vietnam.  I couldn't find on the label where the sheeps were grown.  Apparently the Chinese grow a lot.

If these just said "100% merino performance", I would be suspicious.  I would ask: are they claiming 100% merino performance from a product that is less than 100% materially merino wool?  However, underneath, we have "100% Merino Base Layer", which is unambiguous:




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