ttj - Tom Jones

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 previously asked whether socks with just 44% merino wool were "merino" socks [1].  I was going to ask a similar question about a "Merino" sock containing just 20% merino wool.  Unfortunately, I puked while writing the second sentence of the article.  I remember I was in Austria when I started the article, but I probably can't find the socks now. [1] < https://wibblement.blogspot.com/2024/07/do-merino-socks-have-44-merino-wool.html > [2] < https://wibblement.blogspot.com/2025/01/if-sock-is-20-merino-wool-is-it-merino.html > More happily, my new Löffler (Upper Austria) leggings, tagged "Merino", say on their label that they're 63% wool and 37% polypropylene.  Given the level of deception in this field, I wonder if any of that 63% wool is some type of wool other than Merino wool. For future reference: Europe / Italy size 50 / M.

I was unsure at 44%. At 20%, the