Praise for Swedish issue gear.
Now I am a designer camo fan, I know lots of shaking heads of 'poor townie lookin' fur adventure' etc, or of course the 'sad old git wannabe'. Yep freely confess to all of it.
I have been looking at Swedish M90 for some time I like the colours and the details on the real stuff are remarkable as opposed to the American copies. Up until now I have tended to go for German Issue Flecktarn and OG but the Swedish stuff puts it in the shade.
Trousers.
First thing I noticed is that they have an gaiter sewn into the leg and an incorparated ankle zip which stops the trousers bagging over the boot. The trouser has a simple pop stud arrangemet that holds the trouser down on the boot. It's a simple thing but it makes for ease of putting on and when you are walking through mud you dont brush your trouser bottom with your muddy boot. A small thing, but simple and effective. The trousers are cut for a bent leg action so they are not baggy, but easily incorporate movement. The thigh pockets are not like sacks, so you are not tempted to over fill them and then get leg abrasion as you walk, joy of joy they are zipped as well. The zips are all very heavy plastic and designed for use and abuse.
The hip pockets are cut like real tousers so you can slide you hand in and are fitted with a flap with pop stud.
All I can say is they guy who designed this stuff expected to get wet and muddy, now aint that neat!
M90 Jacket.
Again the design detail shows through. The jacket body is linned with an og light weight cotton. Allowing the jacket to trap air between the two layers in the body area. The arms have the same cut pattern as the leg, so the jacket is designed to bend at the elbow without bulking are compressing the elbow joint. It has an internal drawstring to to pull it to the waist as well as a bottom drawstring to hold it down over the hips. Again it uses those lovely big zips that you can find with your gloves on. Mine has an issue BCUK badge, wonder how that got on it
M90 MPV/Goretex Jacket.
What can I say, the detail is amazing. I showed this to someone who was involved with product design and his quote was 'about £200-300 worth of climbing spec jacket'.
Says it all, hood with foldaway peak and a popers to add a cold weather fur trim.
Under arm zips to vent the armpits, massive external pockets and even larger internal ones.
The jacket has an internal linning and draw string plus an elasticated internal skirt to stop the wind, all of the jacket from internal zip down is pocket.
What can I say except one happy customer, with high spec gear at a knock down price.
Basically the Swedes have taken the best mountainering gear and survival gear they can find, made it more rugged and copied it for their troops. When are our guys going to do this for our forces (Mr Brown are you listening take a lesson from a country that cares!).
Sandsnakes
Now I am a designer camo fan, I know lots of shaking heads of 'poor townie lookin' fur adventure' etc, or of course the 'sad old git wannabe'. Yep freely confess to all of it.
I have been looking at Swedish M90 for some time I like the colours and the details on the real stuff are remarkable as opposed to the American copies. Up until now I have tended to go for German Issue Flecktarn and OG but the Swedish stuff puts it in the shade.
Trousers.
First thing I noticed is that they have an gaiter sewn into the leg and an incorparated ankle zip which stops the trousers bagging over the boot. The trouser has a simple pop stud arrangemet that holds the trouser down on the boot. It's a simple thing but it makes for ease of putting on and when you are walking through mud you dont brush your trouser bottom with your muddy boot. A small thing, but simple and effective. The trousers are cut for a bent leg action so they are not baggy, but easily incorporate movement. The thigh pockets are not like sacks, so you are not tempted to over fill them and then get leg abrasion as you walk, joy of joy they are zipped as well. The zips are all very heavy plastic and designed for use and abuse.
The hip pockets are cut like real tousers so you can slide you hand in and are fitted with a flap with pop stud.
All I can say is they guy who designed this stuff expected to get wet and muddy, now aint that neat!
M90 Jacket.
Again the design detail shows through. The jacket body is linned with an og light weight cotton. Allowing the jacket to trap air between the two layers in the body area. The arms have the same cut pattern as the leg, so the jacket is designed to bend at the elbow without bulking are compressing the elbow joint. It has an internal drawstring to to pull it to the waist as well as a bottom drawstring to hold it down over the hips. Again it uses those lovely big zips that you can find with your gloves on. Mine has an issue BCUK badge, wonder how that got on it
M90 MPV/Goretex Jacket.
What can I say, the detail is amazing. I showed this to someone who was involved with product design and his quote was 'about £200-300 worth of climbing spec jacket'.
Says it all, hood with foldaway peak and a popers to add a cold weather fur trim.
Under arm zips to vent the armpits, massive external pockets and even larger internal ones.
The jacket has an internal linning and draw string plus an elasticated internal skirt to stop the wind, all of the jacket from internal zip down is pocket.
What can I say except one happy customer, with high spec gear at a knock down price.
Basically the Swedes have taken the best mountainering gear and survival gear they can find, made it more rugged and copied it for their troops. When are our guys going to do this for our forces (Mr Brown are you listening take a lesson from a country that cares!).
Sandsnakes
