String vests ?

[seeandess]

If vests were made to keep us warm, what is the purpose of string ones ?

[candybar]

string vests? dont they trap warm air inbetween their holes and layers and therefore provide a sheet of insulation? something like that...

[jojo100]

one of the worse things, saw some in a market other day thought they had stopped making them.

[stevie-p]

i thought they were specifically marketed for the cooks in transport cafes.

[lafrancaise]

They keep the air around the body warm as Candybar says and also allow the body to release sweat, so you don't end up in a wet, sweaty vest.

[rosyrussell]

During WW2 my father was in a prison of war camp in Canada where the temperature was constantly freezing, and he and his friends used to knit vests out of string to keep themselves warm - it was a way of trapping warm air close to the body and seemed to work quie