Help-German speakers ID This Wool sweater Alpinweste

[crunchie]

Hi all!

Can any of our German or Austrian friends id this wool sweater(it is made of wool?) called an Alpinweste.

Here is linky:
http://www.milizverband.at/store5_0/pi1/pd3.html

Is this a heavy wool Dachstein type garment with zip?

Thanks!

[housil]

It says :"Modellgleich wie Alpinpullover aber statt mit Knöpfen eben mit Zipp"

means: same model like "Alpinpullover", but instead of buttons with a zip.

But I don´t know what that "heavy wool Dachstein type " is.

[Garron]

heavy wool Dachstein type

Is wool what had been boiled to make it shrink or so google says,

Dachstein mitts. These woolen mittens, made exclusively in the mountainous Dachstein region of Austria, were de rigueur in the 1970s and 1980s, before Gore-Tex and other high-tech materials supplanted them. Their secret was the boiled wool (aka fulled wool) process, in which natural woolen fibers are soaked in hot water and rubbed by hand or mechanically, causing tiny scales on the fibers to interweave into a thick, dense material

http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&xhr=t&q= ... 0fbeebcf39

Gaz

[housil]

Ah - OK I see..

"Dachstein" is the name of an area in the Alp Mountains, that confused me.

[Cracker]

The Austrian Bundesheer used those pullovers untill the 90s (but then with buttons). They are of heavy quality wool.
It's a very good pullover, but in my eyes obsolete. For that price you can buy a different, better.. synthetic pullover. Or more of them..

Also the wool gives problems with cleaning and such. €135 is a lot of money for a pullover that you can't try on first.

[Bypah]

One good thing about wool. Even when wet keeps you warm...

[dirtbag]

And itches...

[housil]

And keeps you wet...

[Bypah]

..but also warm!
http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/outd ... en-wet.htm
http://www.websiterepairguy.com/article ... _warm.html
http://www.studentorg.umd.edu/pvrg/clothing.html
http://boyslife.org/outdoors/askgearguy ... s-to-wool/

That's why in a survival situation an old military wool blanket is the best option to keep you warm...

[housil]

That's why in a survival situation an old military wool blanket is the best option to keep you warm...

Btw. "old", see the blankets I have.

US Army:






Bundeswehr:



45 years old and still in great shape!