Why do woolen clothes keep us warm in winter ?

Answer Posted / jasim jamil

Woolen clothes have fine pores filled with air and wool are bad conductor of heat .thus the heat from our body does not flow out to the atmosphere and thus the woolen clothes keeps our body warm in the winter.

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