Okay guys... So we all sweat and some (like me) start sweating faster than others. We're all aware of this natural occurence and many of our follows are tolerant and understanding of it, but when your shirt looks like it just been dunked in a wash...
Quoted from "happyhop" :D I "glow" too much to complain, myself, but I do love a lead in a nice fresh t-shirt. It's like a present.
I have a footlocker of tshirts delivered to each dance just before I get there. Each one has a different follow's name on it. Before each dance I put on the shirt with that follow's name. :P 8) :wink:
I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
I love a fresh shirted lead ... then again, if I have to choose between dancing with a great (albeit sweaty) lead and not dancing because he's changing his shirt, I'll take the sweat. It might not be the ideal, but fresh sweat is a natural by-product of summer dancing.
"Change your thoughts, and you change your world" - Norman Vincent Peale.
You'll notice that I didn't preclude dancing with said sweaty (but never olfactorially offensive) leads....I merely stated that grabbing them when they've just changed shirts is an added bonus.
Quoted from "VLG" You'll notice that I didn't preclude dancing with said sweaty (but never olfactorially offensive) leads....I merely stated that grabbing them when they've just changed shirts is an added bonus.
I totally agree!
"Change your thoughts, and you change your world" - Norman Vincent Peale.
Yeah, the only thing I really dislike about changing so much is I have to laundry after every dance I go to. Ugh. Don't even get me started on exchanges!
For the last two or three months, I have been working on layering at summer swing events to test a hypothesis: that wearing a inner wicking layer underneath a breathable cotton layer is a more comfortable and convenient system than wearing a single cotton layer that gets changed frequently over the course of an evening.
Ok, been waiting to try this out. Here are my results/experiences with regards to subj.
I sought out the Nike Dry Fit undershirts, I chose the long sleeve because I've taken to wearing a long sleeve button down shirt and tie lately and my experience in the past has been that with a cotton short sleeve t-shirt underneath sweat first becomes apparent (on me) on the crook of my arm and forarms with no barrier underneath.
So, last night, wore the Nike Dry Fit underneath, they're tight but that's alright because it helps keep my wobbly bits in place, the venue was very hot with poor ventilation and inadequate AC and about 1/2 hour into the evening I can feel the sweat dripping down my back, so I'm thinking, "OK i'm gross" and I'm thinking of changing shirts, go into the mens room and check the mirror.....nothing, no sweat apparent on the top layer...amazing!
So about another 1/2 hour later, still nothing execpt a little sweat stain around my sleeve cuffs, I guess the shirt channels the sweaty stuff downward away from the shirt area to the shirt ends at the bottom of the shirt and sleeves where it's less noticable and icky.
By nights end, my forearms and crook of my arms started to get sweat stained but by then it was the end of the night, and time to leave.
So the new technology works well, if it's a marathon by all means change shirts, but for extra sweaty guys, this is a godsend.
so I know this thread is supposed to be about sweaty t-shirts on guys... but I figure this is related enough. I have recently cut my hair so that it is too short to put up (previously it was long and always in a bun when I danced). When it was in the bun before, my head got sweaty but the sweat stayed there because my hair was up tightly and didn't fling around at all. But now with the short hair, it all gets drenched, and sweat drips off the ends of my hair, and you can imagine what happens when I spin (no I'm not really gross and sweaty usually, its just if you are dancing in an unconditioned room....yeah).
headbands seem to work alright except when I get spun they have a tendency to fly off my head. Same reason I can't wear glasses when I dance. Things just fly off of me.
Shortish haired sweaty gals- any tips? I can't carry a towel in my pocket because I usually have no pocket when I dance.
Wifey had an idea, she saw a commercial for a product called Sham Wow, which is a chamois cloth used for household stuff or washing your car etc. It's supposed to absorb like 20 times it's weight in liquid.
So she says, why don't they just make a shirt out of Sham Wow material. Then when you get too sweaty, you go to the john, wring it out and you're good to go!
Quoted from "boyrick" Wifey had an idea, she saw a commercial for a product called Sham Wow, which is a chamois cloth used for household stuff or washing your car etc. It's supposed to absorb like 20 times it's weight in liquid.
So she says, why don't they just make a shirt out of Sham Wow material. Then when you get too sweaty, you go to the john, wring it out and you're good to go!
Quoted from "boyrick" I sought out the Nike Dry Fit undershirts, I chose the long sleeve because I've taken to wearing a long sleeve button down shirt and tie lately and my experience in the past has been that with a cotton short sleeve t-shirt underneath sweat first becomes apparent (on me) on the crook of my arm and forarms with no barrier underneath.
So, last night, wore the Nike Dry Fit underneath, they're tight but that's alright because it helps keep my wobbly bits in place, the venue was very hot with poor ventilation and inadequate AC and about 1/2 hour into the evening I can feel the sweat dripping down my back, so I'm thinking, "OK i'm gross" and I'm thinking of changing shirts, go into the mens room and check the mirror.....nothing, no sweat apparent on the top layer...amazing!
I'm amazed that the long-sleeved shirt worked as well as it did!
Your results may vary, naturally, but keep experimenting.
Quoted from "happyhop" follows tend to find our faces in large manchest/underarm territory a lot more. For example, a follow can regularly end up with a cheek or nose pressed tight against her partners chest. I don't think it's as common the other way round.
True, I don't think I would get away with it the other way around.
I usually try to have a few extra undershirts, one or more outer shirts, and a towel in my dance bag as well as a few hankies for moping my face real quick.
I also wish to apologize to some follows in Denver as I didn't have my dance bag with me last time I was there. Something that will not be repeated.
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mightythor
I have a footlocker of tshirts delivered to each dance just before I get there. Each one has a different follow's name on it. Before each dance I put on the shirt with that follow's name. :P 8) :wink:
I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
yes.
amen. and grabbing one jamie cameron with a fresh new shirt is like winning the lottery. :)
VLG
I have been known to catch certain notoriously sweaty guys ( cough Jamie cough ) on their way to change shirts and claim the dance after they return.
Fresh shirt dances are The Win.
OpeningMinds
I love a fresh shirted lead ... then again, if I have to choose between dancing with a great (albeit sweaty) lead and not dancing because he's changing his shirt, I'll take the sweat. It might not be the ideal, but fresh sweat is a natural by-product of summer dancing.
"Change your thoughts, and you change your world" - Norman Vincent Peale.
VLG
You'll notice that I didn't preclude dancing with said sweaty (but never olfactorially offensive) leads....I merely stated that grabbing them when they've just changed shirts is an added bonus.
OpeningMinds
I totally agree!
"Change your thoughts, and you change your world" - Norman Vincent Peale.
olingern
Yeah, the only thing I really dislike about changing so much is I have to laundry after every dance I go to. Ugh. Don't even get me started on exchanges!
boyrick
Ok, been waiting to try this out. Here are my results/experiences with regards to subj.
I sought out the Nike Dry Fit undershirts, I chose the long sleeve because I've taken to wearing a long sleeve button down shirt and tie lately and my experience in the past has been that with a cotton short sleeve t-shirt underneath sweat first becomes apparent (on me) on the crook of my arm and forarms with no barrier underneath.
So, last night, wore the Nike Dry Fit underneath, they're tight but that's alright because it helps keep my wobbly bits in place, the venue was very hot with poor ventilation and inadequate AC and about 1/2 hour into the evening I can feel the sweat dripping down my back, so I'm thinking, "OK i'm gross" and I'm thinking of changing shirts, go into the mens room and check the mirror.....nothing, no sweat apparent on the top layer...amazing!
So about another 1/2 hour later, still nothing execpt a little sweat stain around my sleeve cuffs, I guess the shirt channels the sweaty stuff downward away from the shirt area to the shirt ends at the bottom of the shirt and sleeves where it's less noticable and icky.
By nights end, my forearms and crook of my arms started to get sweat stained but by then it was the end of the night, and time to leave.
So the new technology works well, if it's a marathon by all means change shirts, but for extra sweaty guys, this is a godsend.
:)
fiddletree
so I know this thread is supposed to be about sweaty t-shirts on guys... but I figure this is related enough. I have recently cut my hair so that it is too short to put up (previously it was long and always in a bun when I danced). When it was in the bun before, my head got sweaty but the sweat stayed there because my hair was up tightly and didn't fling around at all. But now with the short hair, it all gets drenched, and sweat drips off the ends of my hair, and you can imagine what happens when I spin (no I'm not really gross and sweaty usually, its just if you are dancing in an unconditioned room....yeah).
headbands seem to work alright except when I get spun they have a tendency to fly off my head. Same reason I can't wear glasses when I dance. Things just fly off of me.
Shortish haired sweaty gals- any tips? I can't carry a towel in my pocket because I usually have no pocket when I dance.
boyrick
Wifey had an idea, she saw a commercial for a product called Sham Wow, which is a chamois cloth used for household stuff or washing your car etc. It's supposed to absorb like 20 times it's weight in liquid.
So she says, why don't they just make a shirt out of Sham Wow material. Then when you get too sweaty, you go to the john, wring it out and you're good to go!
Genius.
Bigg_Al
The scent may turn people off, though.
Bigg_Al
I'm amazed that the long-sleeved shirt worked as well as it did!
Your results may vary, naturally, but keep experimenting.
psychoswingkid
True, I don't think I would get away with it the other way around.
I usually try to have a few extra undershirts, one or more outer shirts, and a towel in my dance bag as well as a few hankies for moping my face real quick.
I also wish to apologize to some follows in Denver as I didn't have my dance bag with me last time I was there. Something that will not be repeated.
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