Discover Serigena™ Premier Business Travel Silk Base Layer
If you are searching for the ultimate in Business Travel Comfort and Style, you have arrived at the right destination. Read on to discover how packing Serigena™ Silk Baselayer for Seasoned Travellers™ will transform and optimize your comfort and luggage space during your business travel.
Upgrade your Flight Comfort
Serigena™ Premier Business Travel Silk Base Layer provides superb comfort, extra warmth, and support skin health, when you have to endure cool cabin temperatures with extremely low humidity, on long flights to your destination.
See the performance metrics table below for a direct comparison of human comfort climate with cabin climate.
Measure | Human Comfort | Typical Cabin Climate (for flights over an hour long) |
Temperature | Ideally 20°C to 24°C (68°F to 75°F) for sitting at rest | 20°C to 24°C (68°F to 75°F) sometimes considerably lower |
Relative Humidity | 40% to 60% | Often below 40%, sometimes well below 20% |
Whilst the typical cabin temperature seems ok, its the low humidity – the dry air with it that is going to make you feel uncomfortable. It’s a case of double jeopardy – the dry air makes us give up our body heat; and our rapidly cooling skin makes us feel colder again.
Silk’s adaptive insulation functions particularly well to retain body heat in the low humidity, dry air, of commercial flights, and during the cooler months and cold days. Its low bulk, high stretch, and luxurious comfort make it the perfect baselayer for long flights.
Travel Light
Serigena™ Silk Baselayer Garments have a very high warmth to bulk ratio. So you get more warmth and comfort for less space in your luggage.
Our silk base layer is very packable. For example, a Serigena™ Silk Baselayer Men’s Medium Long sleeve Top and Long pant set can together compress into a volume of around 0.6 of a liter (1.27 US pints), or to describe it another way, both can fit into a space the size of a typical trouser pocket with room to spare. Together they weigh around 255 grams (9oz).
Versatility
The weather can be unpredictable sometimes. For very little space and weight in your luggage, you will be prepared for all contingencies with your Serigena™ Base Layers. Mix and match between short & long sleeve undershirts, and long pants to suit the days temperature.
Low Bulk Warmth
Serigena™ Silk Baselayer Garments have a very high warmth to bulk ratio. You get more warmth and comfort for less space and less restrictive bulk. See the performance metrics table below for a direct comparison of our silk base layer fabric thickness, warmth for weight, and thermal conductivity, against other base layer fabrics.
Fabric Type & Weight | Fabric Thickness | Warmth for Thckness (Bulk) | Thermal Conductivity (λ in W/m·K) of Raw Fiber / Filament |
Serigena™ Interlock Silk 75 - 80 GSM | Around 0.175 mm | High | 0.045 to 0.055 |
Ultralight Merino Wool 105 – 125 GSM | 0.30 – 0.45 mm | Medium | 0.035 to 0.054 |
- GSM = Grams per Square Metre i.e. the weight of a square metre of the garments fabric.
- Serigena™ Interlock Silk’s high warmth for thickness (bulk) ratio is due to the ability of its straight filament to densely pack flat, with a uniquely high ratio of micro and meso air voids within its low bulk thickness. The micro air voids – tiny, microscopic air gaps within individual silk yarn bundles contribute between 15% to 30% of the yarn volume. Meso-voids – the visible gaps between the knitted loops of the interlock structure contribute additional air gap insulation, and pathways for moisture transport. Together they provide a highly efficient low bulk thermal barrier, with excellent breathability. Conductive heat loss prevention by fabric is considered significantly influenced by the amount of trapped air within the fabric – in addition to the thermal conductivity of the fiber / filament. Trapped air has a very low rate of thermal conductivity (approximately 0.026).
- 100% merino wool is rarely knit below 120–130 GSM due to durability limits. It begins to become fragile below that weight – the thinner it is knit the more susceptible it is to tearing and holing. Merino wool’s insulation relies on its high loft (increased thickness), driven by its spring like crimped (wavy) 15 to 24 micron fibers (which cannot lay flat) and the air gaps between them.
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The lower the thermal conductivity number, the better the fibre acts as a thermal insulator preventing heat moving through garments
Perfect for wearing under tailored or fitting outfits
If you want warmth with comfort under your tailored or fitting outfits you have come to the right solution. Weight for weight, Silk is considered a more effective thermal insulator than any other natural or synthetic fiber, making it the ideal bulk free next to skin layer.
Our baselayer low bulk and snug fit keeps its form discreet under close fitting clothing. These features make our undershirt, and long pant base layer the smart choice under fitting and tailored clothing in cool weather.
Warm when it Cools – Comfortable when it Warms™
Our Silk Fabric’s high insulation value (or more technically it’s low thermal conductivity), ensures the warmth released by your skin is held close to your body, keeping you warm. Micro pockets of air trapped within the Silk fibers insulate and slow the loss of body heat when it is cold.
Our Silk Fabric doesn’t just keep heat in – it’s low thermal conductivity can work the other way and keep external heat out. When temperatures warm, its continuous cycle of moisture absorption from your body and its evaporation to the outside air creates a microclimate of cool, dry air against the skin, keeping you comfortable.
The isothermal properties of silk additionally make the fabric itself feel cool in summer and warm in winter.
Silk’s high surface area (compared to the surface area of round to elliptical shaped merino wool fibers) attributable to the smooth, triangular cross-section shape of its filaments, enables increased skin to air vapor exchange, facilitating the acceleration of moisture evaporation rates when necessary. This enables heat to be pulled away from the skin by endothermic evaporative cooling. Silk is considered the exemplar natural textile for this effect
Silk’s high infrared emissivity also enables our heating body to shed its heat into outer layers and the surrounding air, facilitating passive radiative cooling.
Serigena™ Silk Baselayer ability to help you remain comfortable when it warms & provide warmth when it cools makes it ‘The Base Layer’ to travel with.
Look and Feel Fresh during your Travels
Silk has the capacity to absorb up to 30% of its own weight in moisture without feeling wet, and wick it away, meaning you feel more comfortable, and have a lower likelihood that perspiration will wet the surface of outer garments.
Silk is relatively inhospitable to the biome that develops on skin and perspiration, so it won’t quickly accumulate and hold body odor like many other fabrics.
See the performance metrics table below for a direct comparison of our silk base layer fabric odor resistance and drying speed, against merino wool.
Fabric Type | Odor Resistance | Drying Speed (after washing) |
Serigena™ Interlock Silk | Excellent - silk's natural protein structure repels bacteria | Moderate to fast, up to 2 to 4 hours to air dry |
Interlock Merino Wool | Excellent - merino wool repels bacteria | Slow, up to 12 hours plus to air-dry |
Easy Care
Silk is fairly resistant to wrinkling, but slight wrinkling in base layer usually isn’t of much consequence. There is a simple travel hack after unpacking though if its been compressed tightly, that involves hanging it up in in a steamy bathroom and leaving it hanging overnight. Most of the wrinkles should be gone by the morning.
If you need to wash it in the evening, it should easily be dry by morning.
Four-Way Stretch Fabric for Optimal Comfort
The Silk Fabric Knit we use in our Undershirts and Long Pants is considered the gold standard for Baselayer. It is renowned for its four-way stretch, and significant stretch in the width direction, making it very flexible and optimal for movement and comfort.
Shape Retention
Our Interlock knit fabric has excellent stretch recovery. This helps our garments retain their shape over time. Quality by design, style by nature™.
Smooth to the Skin™
The Interlock Knit Mulberry Silk fabric in our Base Layer is Smooth to the Skin™ – it has a smooth, identical surface inside and out. This makes our fabric exceptionally comfortable against the skin and gives it dual side low friction co-efficient (slipperiness). This reduces friction against your skin, and against your next clothing layer, significantly improving economy of movement and comfort.
It makes Great Lightweight, Low Bulk Travel Sleepwear
Serigena™ Silk Baselayers make superb lightweight travel sleep wear. They are breathable and thermoregulating, easy and quick to wash and dry if you are travelling for an extended period, and they take up very little room in your bag.
Crafted by Nature™ Natural & Sustainable
Our Silk is crafted by nature. Its protein profile is remarkably similar to that of the human skin, making it very friendly to your skin. It is a natural, renewable, organic, and biodegradable fiber.
100% Natural Silk garments are environmentally harmless, breaking down in normal composting soil conditions within 1 to 5 years, leaving no synthetic footprint.
The Silk spinning process is almost 90% more energy-efficient than processing the polyethylene used in the manufacture of synthetic garments.
Timeless
If the test of time is the sterling measure of value, then the 4700 year history of silk textile is testimony to real refinement.
Two Travel Light Strategies for Business
1. The 5-4-3-2-1 packing formula:
The 5-4-3-2-1 packing formula balances your clothing requirements with the need to manage luggage weight and volume. It revolves around five tops, and four bottoms, including suit and/or blazer, plus base layer, sleep-wear, three pairs of shoes, and accessories etc.
Colours are neutral, and utilise a foundation of black, white, navy, cream, or grey, with one or two accent colors. Fabric choice is based around lightweight, breathable, and quick-drying fabrics that resist wrinkles, & layer easily and comfortably. The base layers and/or sleep-wear are light-weight low bulk silk. You wear your heaviest shoes and wear or carry your bulkiest layer during transit to save critical weight and space in your bag.
2. The luxury travel capsule wardrobe:
The modern luxury travel capsule wardrobe concept utilises a travel light, low bulk time-saving curated collection of 12-15 versatile clothing pieces. Fabrics are a cohesive color palette of black, white, beige, and navy that mix and match for your planned activities.
Every top goes with every bottom. All layers work together aesthetically and can be mixed and matched to suit daily temperature ranges and activity levels. All garments are made of wrinkle-resistant, no-iron fabrics. You roll some of them to negate hard fold lines, and you compress bulky items.
The base layers and/or sleep-wear are light-weight low bulk silk. Mid and top layers are no or minimal iron fabrics, cashmere, and wool. Suit and/or blazer, and pants that are no or minimal iron fabrics are folded. You wear your heaviest shoes and wear or carry your bulkiest layer during transit to save critical weight and space in your bag.