The main difference is the fabric weight in general.

The thinner boiled wool is made from finer wool, making it softer and more supple. Therefore, it is particularly suitable for infants and toddlers.

The thicker, more robust boiled wool is more durable and especially well-suited for snow, particularly cold days, or children who tend to wear out their clothes more quickly, such as crawling children on the playground. Our boiled wool overall, due to its thicker fabric, has greater durability and does not wear out as quickly.

Furthermore, the boiled wool overalls, jackets, and dungarees made from the thick boiled wool can also be worn in really cold temperatures, providing excellent protection against the cold for the little ones, or even yourself.

We only use sustainable, animal-friendly, and fair virgin wool that is kbT (controlled organic animal husbandry) and GOTS certified. Our yarns are exclusively mulesing- and chlorine-free and come from Patagonia, the southern part of Argentina.

The sheep are shorn once a year after winter. The sheep breed has particularly thin hair, which makes the wool itself very fine and high-quality. Shearing a sheep yields about 2 kg of the finest wool, which can then be processed.

Mulesing is the painful removal of skin around the tail of sheep. This method is particularly common in Australia. It is intended to prevent an infestation with blowfly larvae, which lay their eggs there. The so-called blowfly strike is also a cruel disease, as the hatched larvae bore into the flesh of the sheep and eat them alive from the inside. Therefore, the climate should be perfect for sheep farming. Too much heat and rain would only exacerbate this. The only alternative to mulesing is pesticide baths, which would, however, be found in the wool.

In Patagonia, where we source our wool, this fly is not present. Therefore, we are naturally mulesing-free.

Virgin wool is merely the umbrella term for the individual types of wool.

Sheep's virgin wool comes exclusively from live animals and is freshly obtained once or twice a year. The European Textile Regulation precisely specifies how the individual types of wool may be named. There are different breeds of sheep (such as Cheviot, Merino, Crossbred), all of which provide virgin wool. Merino wool is the highest quality wool. This in turn has sub-classifications and is sorted after shearing, for example by color, length and fineness of the individual fibers.

In our 100% virgin wool overalls, little ones are snugly warm and protected even in sub-zero temperatures. And that's despite the suits not being lined. Felted wool has a lot of air between its fibers, providing excellent insulation. The all-rounder virgin wool can absorb up to 80% of its material weight in moisture (such as snow and rain) on the surface without feeling wet on the skin. However, felted wool is never completely waterproof or 100% wind-resistant. Powder snow poses no problems at all, but it's a different story with huge puddles.

Therefore, the rule of thumb is: the colder the temperatures, the more layers should be worn! Ideally, natural materials like wool or silk. These are particularly breathable and temperature-regulating.

Always pay attention to wind strength to choose the right layer to wear underneath. On a sunny, windless day, the overall can even be worn perfectly at -10 degrees. However, if there's a strong wind at 5 degrees, it could already be too cold for the little ones.

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