If you subscribe to this blog, you may have seen my HyperhidrosisAndMe Weekly Spotlight.  I like to use this to highlight different pages from this site, giving special attention to treatment options, certain topics, as well as some favorite products of mine.  This week, I must confess that my intention was to update hyperhidrosis clothing options for Fall, for both men and women.

Honestly? I struck out.  I spent all day Monday searching high and low for great no-sweat-marks clothes for this season, only to come up with only a couple of  possibilities that need further research (golly, a brick-and-mortar Shopping Trip, perhaps?).

It is baffling to me why more clothes are not available for this problem!  It is frustrating because I have found in my research that the technology exists.  There is an eco-friendly fabric treatment– which can be used on any fabric– that claims to absorb moisture next to the skin and minimize sweat marks from appearing on the outer side of the garment.  It was developed by a German company called Schoeller and the treatment is called 3XDry.  I have mentioned it before on this site, having found a few clothing manufacturers that use it.

These companies make clothes for outdoor active wear, and are mostly made for fly fishermen!  So, if you are a fly fisherman with hyperhidrosis, you are in luck, my friend.  There are a few decent looking shirts for men that could be considered to be dressy-casual– Woolrich has a couple, and Simms had a few earlier this year, but their website displays very little 3XDry right now.   Sierra Trading Post frequently sells 3XDry products for both men and women, but they too have very little to offer at the moment.

Of course, we have the Good Ol’ Standbys:

• Sweaters (ironically named, no?),
• Blazers to hide sweat marks, although they may make you hotter (no, not sexy hotter– well, maybe; hell, I don’t know you)
• Sweat absorbing foundation wear (see my pages on Undergarments!!)
• Colorful patterns to mask the marks
• Nylon mesh fabric (like Sweet Pea by Stacy Frati), if you can find it this time of year; I could not.
• And, our Old Friend…. Black!! (so, so sick of black)

There was also a new company I found online that touted dress shirts for men that would not show sweat.  Fresh Max claims that theirs are the only dress shirts in existence to disguise sweating.  I plan on contacting them for more information– if their claims hold up, that would be great news!

So I guess this week you got a flashlight when I wanted to give you a Spotlight.  I will keep looking for solutions!