[Governor Dinwiddie]

Synthetics are the worst. They melt and stick to you. Welders are urged to only wear cotton or wool—no synthetics like polyester, nylon, etc.

Wool in particular is naturally fire resistant.
 

[gnarledmaw]

My dad was a welder. He hated buying new work clothes and just having it destroyed so he would go to rummage sales and come home with paper grocery bags full of clothes that he had paid 10 cents per piece for. For awhile a lot of that stuff was some kind of leftovers from the disco era. He didnt ever catch totally on fire but often came home looking like he had been hosed down with birdshot and holes burned into his flesh. He would just chuck the clothes and pick out another mismatched circus colored collision of rags the next day. He always just blew off the burns as part of the job.

He said he was just glad not to be "back on the farm." Makes one wonder what things must have been like on that farm. Different sort of characters in those days.

[metmom]

I’ve heard stuff like UnderArmour is the worst.