It goes without saying, the weather in London is about as unpredictable as a cornered Squirell. Given this lottery of weather conditions throughout the day, the only option is to wear layers and always carry an umbrella – yes, even in mid August. However, this somewhat hedged approach to keeping warm/cool/dry has a massive downfall for me in that every day, no matter what combination I am wearing, I will inevitably find myself sweating as soon as I begin my underground commute on the sauna line. Unless I “luck out” by finding space near the Beaufort Scale 7 breeze blasting through the front of the carriage I will have disco pits in under 10 minutes – not a great look when you’re presenting your disappointing quarterly reports to the directors. To prevent further embarrassment, I decided something has to be done about this and a few weeks ago began furiously Googling.
Type in “prevent sweating” into the search giant and as you might suspect, you are presented with the usual mix of miracle ebooks, several forums which end in name calling, the dodgy online doctor website and as always the very brief and often useless ehow.com article. After closing the 95% of useless tabs you hastily opened, you will eventually get to the facts and hopefully come to a decent conclusion. Here’s what I came up with.
