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Keeping cool in suit
Fawks Beaumont:
Well, if you have access to a Clothing and Sales or PX that sells moisture-wicking clothes, they work great. I am in the service as well, and fursuit quite frequently. Under Armour is great, and if you can get a balaclava (not the cold weather ones) or a gator skin, they work wonders. However, try to get clothes that are close to the fur color of your suit, just in case they peak through. If you suit is overly large, don't worry about it.
Mystifur:
Three possible, more or less useful methods:
1) Principle of cooling vest:
You wear something that has pockets to accomodate coolpacks
(gel, icepacks, dry ice,..)
Problem: you need to pre-cool the packs. At EF, you only have the tiny mini-bar fridge. Not very useful.
2) Heat exchanging device:
Having hoses with cooling liquid circulate inside
Problem: You need to place the actual device and radiator somewhere (outside the suit)
3) Evaporation:
As Fursuit will start to cool down, once you've sweated it all through and the moisture reaches the outside, starting to evaporate. You can accellerate this, if you wet the suit directly or put on wet stuff before climbing inside. Be it this evap stuff or any other synthetic.
Problem: well.. you're even more wet.
Vendace:
So the hot weather Under Armour works well? Cool ^_^ (No pun intended XD) I'll definatly have to try that, though I'll still probably try to get one of those rings. Thanks again!
Fawks Beaumont:
No problem. :P