Making Down Pants

[Gqgeek81]

Because most of your vital organs are up top. Well, except for the danglies that have the ability to conserve heat by shriveling upwards, and your skin that covers the entire body. Your legs and feet are otherwise essentially just transportation. Your body can let them get pretty cold and still survive with no long term damage (frostnip is the first sign of such damage - your cells are literally starting to freeze), but your core contains vital organs that need to be kept close to 96.8F for proper functioning.

Sure, but even our arms tend to get a lot more protection than our legs.
Also it seems ironic that we can largely ignore adding extra layers to our legs and yet there's the thread on using a hot water bottle between them to keep everything else warm.

[vampiresmiley]

yes you sure can as much as you want. its not the standard ul down its from an old mattress pillow top. very heavy stuff it doesn't compress very well but is warm. that's why I think it would be good for pants, shirts, or any other item that you sit/ lay on

You are more than welcome to send any "extra" my way, I'll be happy to cover any shipping/handling costs. I'm always in search of more reclaimed down.

Michael

[genixia]

Sure, but even our arms tend to get a lot more protection than our legs.
Also it seems ironic that we can largely ignore adding extra layers to our legs and yet there's the thread on using a hot water bottle between them to keep everything else warm.

You generate heat in your arms when walking, but nowhere near as much as you would if you were chopping wood, rowing/paddling, doing pullups or pushups, etc. In addition, your hands are important instruments - you start to struggle with dexterity before tissue damage occurs and usally take steps to protect them. It stands to reason that we end up with more protection on our arms in our World of hiking, backpacking or camping. But look at what happened in the NFL playoffs last week in Green Bay. Temperatures around zero F, windchills well below that and players were bare-armed yet still slick with sweat. Running, throwing, catching, pushing and grappling generates more heat than walking; and the skin of the arms and legs are used to regulate body heat.

The reason that the hot water bottle works between the legs isn't ironic - the femoral artery that carries oxygenated blood to the largest muscles in the body and the fermoral vein that returns that blood to the heart, both run through the inside upper thigh fairly close to the skin. If you want to artifically introduce heat into the body then this is a great choice, because heat transfer can happen rapidly. Heat pads under the armpits work too for a similar reason.