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If you're wondering why cotton isn't the best type of clothing to wear in the winter, this is because cotton is not a good insulator. Materials such as fleece or wool will better trap your body's heat, and better help keep you warm. In addition you don't want to get wet while wearing cotton in cold weather. Water will conduct the heat away from your body very quickly. Wool, however, keeps a lot of it's insulative properties even if wet (I think approx 50%)

Regardless getting wet, when you are out in the cold weather is a bad idea and a fast way to become hypothermic. Also, wearing cotton doesn't help nearly as much as wool or fleece in cold situations.

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