I'm not an a outdoor type, I don't cycle, walk, cross Antarctica for work or for fun. But I do work with horses, I love my wife and she loves her horses...enough said. Last winter I was working away wearing my Aclimatise over just a shirt and my hands got really cold, I started to wonder if there was something wrong, nope nothing wrong, just my Aclimatise doing a great job keeping my body warm, I really didn't feel cold but my hands were the only things not protected and they started to feel the cold. I wear my Aclimatise working outside, in the garage and really it's the go-to jacket for stepping outside what ever the weather.