For sweaters, Brigade Quartermaster's Woolly Pully are a good value and they have the reinforcing patches (could prevent abrasion from the suspenders that hold your heavy wool pants). But I also like medium and lightweight lambswool sweaters that I find at Simons, a clothing store here for only $30 (made in... China). Shetland wool is lightweight and quick drying. Merino is the poor man's cachemere.

Frankie