a little disappointing

By La Pedestrienne November 25, 2011

These are nice enough as lightweight around-town gloves, but nothing special. I've not yet found a pair of wool liner gloves durable enough to make them worthwhile. (Had an old pair of Terramar liners that disintegrated after a couple months of winter bike commuting--even though they were always underneath a pair of windproof outer gloves.) These Smartwools are thicker than most liners, and are not a jersey knit as I'd expected--more of a typical knit stitch. Too thick to layer under some of my work gloves, which is a bummer. Also, put a whole in one finger yanking a tent stake out of the ground--because they are not finely wove, these gloves are prone to snagging. I've gone back to an ancient but *very* sturdy pair of polypro liners that I picked up years ago for 4 or 5 bucks. They smell irreversibly like a wet dog, but they get the job done better than anything else I've found.

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