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It IS!!! I'm a born and raised Texan..........but I lived in upstate Vermont for 3 years. Before moving up there I think I'd only ever owned one thing that was wool. In Texas, cotton is your friend!! But in Vermont wool is your friend!!!
In Vermont cotton socks absorb moisture and your feet stay wet and get cold!! Wool wicks moisture so your feet stay dry and warm.
The first July I was up there, there were mornings we had ICE on the mud puddles.
This Texas girl had a hard time believing that there could be Freezing weather in JULY!!! I'll never forget calling my Mom to tell her we had ice in JULY...........she just laughed........she was raised in northern Minnesota : )
In the winter everybody looked like pillsbury doughboys, lots of layers of clothing........took forever to get dressed in the morning....you had to have 3 different size cloths, so you can fit the layers, one over the other.
Didn't mind the cold, learned to wear wool and GOOD boots, but in the end it was the DARK that I couldn't deal with.....in December it gets dark about 3pm.......plus the sky is really small.........unless you go to a mountain top........then it gets a bit bigger. AND we couldn't see sunsets from our little valley.
I loved Vermont, but found I loved Texas more!!! Yeap, tee shirts, cut offs, sweats in winter and a sweater/jacket........we Texans don't have to have a lot of closet space for our seasonal wardrobe. LOL