Forest Life by George Washington Sears

Author:George Washington Sears
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Running Press
Published: 2018-10-22T16:00:00+00:00

Clothing

As to clothing for the woods, a good deal of nonsense has been written about “strong, coarse woolen clothes.” You do not want coarse woolen clothes. Fine woolen cassimere113 of medium thickness for coat, vest, and pantaloons, with no cotton lining. Color, slate gray or dead-leaf (either is good). Two soft, thick woolen shirts; two pairs of fine, but substantial, woolen drawers;114 two pairs of strong woolen socks or stockings; these are what you need, and all you need in the way of clothing for the woods, excepting hat and boots, or gaiters. Boots are best—providing you do not let yourself be inveigled into wearing a pair of long-legged heavy boots with thick soles, as has been often advised by writers who knew no better. Heavy, long-legged boots are a weary, tiresome encumbrance on a hard tramp through rough woods. Even moccasins are better. Gaiters, all sorts of high shoes, in fact, are too bothersome about fastening and unfastening. Light boots are best. Not thin, unserviceable affairs, but light as to actual weight. The following hints will give an idea for the best footgear for the woods; let them be single soled, single backs, and single fronts, except light, short foot-linings. Back of solid “country kip”;115 fronts of substantial French calf; heel one inch high, with steel nails; countered outside; straps narrow, of fine French calf put on “astraddle”116 and set down to the top of the back. The outsole stout, Spanish oak, and pegged rather than sewed, although either is good. They will weigh considerably less than half as much as the clumsy, costly boots usually recommended for the woods, and the added comfort must be tested to be understood.

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