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Why Thorlos?
The Fat Your Customers Want To Keep
- The loss of fat pads is due to primarily to damage from
shearing forces from walking and running on smooth, unyielding
man-made surfaces (concrete, asphalt,
hard floors).
- The damage is compounded by poorly designed and poorly
fitted socks and shoes.
- Thorlos protect the fat pads from shear forces by transferring
these forces from the fat pads to the cushion fabric of
the Thorlos; and where fat pad degradation has already occurred.
Thorlos engineered cushion fabric helps replace the function
of the natural fat pads.
- Protection is the “root cause” of comfort.
Cross Section Showing the Long
Term Effects of Fat Pd Deterioration
Why fabrics that work well on
our Bodies work poorly in our shoes
- Cotton, wool and silk (all natural fabrics) absorb moisture
(“absorption” is defined as retention). The
wool industry claims it “wicks”; this is not
true
- Inside the shoes, natural fiber sock fabrics become ineffective
and in some cases even harmful to the feet. They absorb
moisture, become saturated and collapse.
RESULT: No protection.
- Acrylic “wicks” moisture (“wicking”
is defined as transmission or movement of moisture by capillary
action), moving it away from the foot to the outer layer
of a properly fitted shoe where it is released into the
outside environment.
- Acrylic cushion sock fabric for natural fibers properly
blended with acrylic) maintains resiliency and provides
a more natural yielding, forgiving, dynamic environment
for the foot(like walking barefoot in
grass or sand).
- RESULT: More protection, more comfort.
Net effect: acrylic cushion fabric
Cerates a more “NATURAL” Environment Inside a
shoe or boot
- The irony is that it requires a man-made (or natural Blended
with acrylic) cushion fabric to create a more natural surface
inside a shoe, but remember that shoes and boots themselves
are man-made surfaces.
- Therefore, the only effective protective measure Is to
help counteract the negative aspects of one “man-made”
surface with another “man-made” surface.
- Thorlos exclusive acrylic cushion fabric is more “natural”
inside a shoe.
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