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Help-German speakers ID This Wool sweater Alpinweste
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 4:09 pm
by 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!
Re: Help-German speakers ID This Wool sweater Alpinweste
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 4:27 pm
by 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.
Re: Help-German speakers ID This Wool sweater Alpinweste
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 6:34 pm
by 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
Re: Help-German speakers ID This Wool sweater Alpinweste
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 6:45 am
by housil
Ah - OK I see..
"Dachstein" is the name of an area in the
Alp Mountains, that confused me.
Re: Help-German speakers ID This Wool sweater Alpinweste
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 1:42 pm
by 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.
Re: Help-German speakers ID This Wool sweater Alpinweste
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 8:00 pm
by Bypah
One good thing about wool. Even when wet keeps you warm...
Re: Help-German speakers ID This Wool sweater Alpinweste
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 9:01 pm
by dirtbag
And itches...
Re: Help-German speakers ID This Wool sweater Alpinweste
Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 6:35 am
by housil
And keeps you wet...
Re: Help-German speakers ID This Wool sweater Alpinweste
Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 2:14 pm
by Bypah
Re: Help-German speakers ID This Wool sweater Alpinweste
Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 3:20 pm
by housil
Bypah wrote:
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!
