How to choose the right base layer

When nature is your arena, with its ever-shifting conditions, choosing the right baselayer is key to achieving your best performance.

Your baselayer is a crucial component of your layering system, its regulation of body temperature, moisture management, and wicking abilities allow you to focus solely on exerting your full potential.

The intensity and duration of your intended workout are the most important factors to consider when choosing base layers. Explore the different collections and the benefits of each of them.

Performance Wool – wool blend for high-intensity training

A lightweight base layer for all temperatures. Strategically placed mesh panels provide optimal breathability and a proper fit. Choose between long sleeve, half zip, t-shirt, and pants – perfect for high-intensity training during all seasons.

Compete Tech – wool blend for the most demanding workouts

Designed for competing and a higher level of intensity sessions when you wish to go all in. Compete Tech is a sustainable innovation, consisting of a cutting-edge blend of Tencel™, recycled polyester, and merino wool.

This combination ensures optimal insulation, efficient moisture management, and swift drying of the garment. The incredibly lightweight fabric feels soft and comfortable, allowing you to focus solely on achieving your best.

Training Wool Mix – wool blend for moderate intensity

A versatile base layer series for moderate to high-intensity sessions in all weather conditions. A perfect combination of wool and synthetics provides great moisture-wicking and quick-drying abilities. Training Wool Mix is a great choice for the active ones.

Training Tech – synthetics for all seasons

The best choice when it comes to an all-around base layer. Training Tech is made with lightweight and elastic fabrics that are highly moisture-wicking, breathable, and temperature-regulating.

Rib-structured and quick-drying synthetic materials and flat seams that prevent friction make this a comfortable base layer perfect for moderate to high-intensity workouts.

Through Dæhlie’s pursuit of perfection, we have found that the right blend of wool, other natural fibers, and technically advanced synthetic fibers extends the durability of the garment, without compromising the quality of its essential qualities.

Read more about the technical advantages of the fabrics below.

Benefits of wool

Wool absorbs an impressive amount of moisture, leaving your skin dry and comfortable. No matter how hard you push your limits, it still maintains breathability. Wool’s natural fibers adapt to their surroundings and are superior to any other material when it comes to temperature control, both in hot and cold conditions.

We recommend wool all year round for many of your training sessions, as its numerous qualities can significantly enhance your performance, regardless of season. Wool also has the remarkable ability to break down the bacteria that cause odor, eliminating the need for damaging antibacterial substances to maintain that fresh feeling.

Benefits of synthetic fibers

Many base layers are made with synthetic fibers, and we use mainly polyester in our collection. Polyester is hydrophobic and gives optimal moisture-wicking abilities, moving the sweat away from your body where it can evaporate more efficiently.

This also means that the fibers don’t absorb water, or sweat, allowing the base layer to dry faster. We see synthetics as the preferred fabric for high-intensity or interval training – when you have the option to change as soon as you’re done.

Sustainability in every garment

Dæhlie believes in sustainability and strives for products that will endure even the most intense activities. Through ethically sourced materials, the use of recycled polyester and biodegradable wool, we stand for respecting nature throughout our process, so that you can continue using it as your training ground and source of inspiration.

We also use Tencel™ Lyocell in our Performance products, a fibre gathered from cellulose mass from the sustainable eucalyptus tree. This tree grows quickly and is gathered from an FSC*-certified supplier, with no use of genetic modifications or artificial watering. It is as durable as polyester, and soft like silk. Its breathability, moisture management and anti-bacterial properties makes it ideal for both high and low intensity training.

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