Undershirts and fashion

[Valmy]

Some of us get a nice workout in during lunch and expect our undershirts to absorb all the sweat.

[garbon]

If you're more than a moderate sweater, undershirt would absorb the sweat that would otherwise make your shirt visibly wet.

What is it with you guys with your sweating and sweat stains.  The only time I sweat is when I am involved in some kind of intense physical effort.  How is it possible that you sweat sitting in an airconditioned office?  We are talking about dress shirts here.

Well to be honest, it generally is hard to get around New York in summer (particularly when outside or waiting for subway train) and not sweat a fair amount. When I had a job interview in summer once, I wore my normal clothes and then changed into my suit at a Starbucks nearby to make sure I looked fresh.

[derspiess]

Yeah, I walk to lunch most days so there are sweat issues during the summer.

[DGuller]

If you're more than a moderate sweater, undershirt would absorb the sweat that would otherwise make your shirt visibly wet.

What is it with you guys with your sweating and sweat stains.  The only time I sweat is when I am involved in some kind of intense physical effort.  How is it possible that you sweat sitting in an airconditioned office?  We are talking about dress shirts here.

People have vastly different propensities to sweat.  Some sweat constantly, others barely sweat even during physical activity.  Apart from that, even office drones occasionally step out of their office, and sometimes it's 100 degrees outside.

[garbon]

*waiting for CC and some fabulous report about Vancouver*

[Eddie Teach]

If people in the Pacific Northwest start feeling warm, they just take off their second sweater.

[KRonn]

The article states that an exposed undershirt when wearing a dress shirt is a fashion faux pas. I found this immediately concerning, because I dress like that a lot. Alarmed, I started looking around and it seems most guys are doing the same as me--though not the europeans.

My general rule is that I lean toward crew necks, but if it is a dark shirt I sometimes go with a v neck that can't be seen. I tend to think that if you wear a v neck the undershirt should stay invisible. With a light shirt you can often seen the outline. 

I wear v-neck white t-shirts as I really don't like having the white t-shirt show under my dress shirt or other type shirt. I think it looks lousy, kind of dumb, but not really a big deal. I just don't like it. I especially dislike white t-shirts showing under a uniform, military or whatever. A colored t-shirt looks ok and I have no problem with wearing a crew neck colored t-shirt under other shirts.

[CountDeMoney]

*waiting for CC and some fabulous report about Vancouver*

No shit.  But he's a big guy, maybe he can jam 93 degrees and 85% humidity up his ass.

[crazy canuck]

*waiting for CC and some fabulous report about Vancouver*

Here it is, I walk around our beatiful city most lunch hours without any issue with sweating.  Relative fitness levels?

[garbon]

*waiting for CC and some fabulous report about Vancouver*

Here it is, I walk around our beatiful city most lunch hours without any issue with sweating.  Relative fitness levels?

I just looked up Vacouver expected temps for the next few days. That's more like SF temps - ain't sweltering like it is here in New York.

[Ideologue]

So being fit makes it colder outside?

[garbon]

So being fit makes it colder outside?

Here's what I could find quickly:
http://www.livestrong.com/article/538416-do-physically-fit-women-sweat-more/

Sweat and Fitness Level

According to an article by Tanya Rouble, ACE-CPT, the amount that you sweat does not necessarily indicate your level of fitness. In some cases where it appears that less fit individuals sweat more while exercising, it is likely that those individuals are less able to cope with the demands of increased heat during activity and, thus, may sweat more. The American Council on Exercise adds that fit people tend to sweat more efficiently by sweating early in the workout when their body temperature is lower so that their bodies don't store extra heat.

Body Composition

Body composition and body type may be another contributing factor to the amount of sweat produced during exercise. A study published in the June 2011 issue of "American Journal of Applied Physiology" compared heat production in people of different fitness levels. The study showed that sweat rates depended on heat production from factors like body size and environment, not aerobic fitness. Those individuals with overall higher fat content and body mass were more likely to produce heat and, to compensate, sweated more.

[Ideologue]

That's fair.  I forgot about the insulating properties of fat.

[crazy canuck]

*waiting for CC and some fabulous report about Vancouver*

Here it is, I walk around our beatiful city most lunch hours without any issue with sweating.  Relative fitness levels?

I just looked up Vacouver expected temps for the next few days. That's more like SF temps - ain't sweltering like it is here in New York.

Yeah, we just hit a cold bump.  For the last week the temps have been around 30

[Capetan Mihali]

Oh yeah, and as to the original issue, I agree that letting a crew-neck undershirt show under the dress shirt is a sartorial blunder. 

I habitually wore a white crew-neck underneath my long-sleeve shirts (not dress shirts) until I was about 18 or 19, when I started to feel "something is just wrong with this" about how it looked, and so gradually transitioned to A-shirts.