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blairemc
Aug 31, 2007, 04:12 AM
If I were to put on each of the followinf items individually (ie. Not on top of one another), how much would by body temperature increase?


Tracksuit bottoms
Jeans
Woolen jumper
Cotton jumper
Slippers
Socks
Towelling dressing gown

Capuchin
Aug 31, 2007, 04:19 AM
You seem to misunderstand body temperature.

See Thermoregulation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_temperature)

The point of clothes is not to warm you up, but to keep you warm, meaning you have to use less energy yourself to do so. Wearing clothes does not change your internal body temperature.

Clothes work by trapping air close to your body, this air then warms up to your external body temperature. Therefore any cold outside your clothes has to cool down the clothes and cool down the warm air before it can cool you down, clothes add a buffer to coldness.