How about wicked cool winter pants of the Austrian technicolor troops? Ideal for infiltrating an 80s ski resort without attracting any unwanted attention. Warm and fuzzy like your first love. Act now and get quality pants for dirt cheap!

Features

Featurewise these are pretty traditional winter pants with suspenders and a button fly. Designed to be worn on top of your regular pants. These have both side pockets and openings through which you can access the pockets of the pants underneath or scratch yourself in a disturbing kinda way. Furthermore, they have buttoned cargo pockets. The legs have button adjustment, so they don’t flap in the wind when you chase the enemy agents on skis in the Alps.

Materials and care

There are thermal pants from different generations here, so the materials vary to some extent. On some of these, the shell fabric is 100% cotton, the lining 100% polyamide, and the padding 100% acrylic. On some, the shell fabric is 65/35 polycotton, lining polyamide, and padding polyester. There can be other options as well. Wash at 40 degrees Celsius. The pants have some sort of a water-repellent treatment that needs to be redone when the pants are washed. Since this is military surplus, we cannot guarantee how efficient the treatment is anymore anyway.

Use

These cold-weather pants are used when you don’t want your tender bits to turn blue. In appearance, they are a bit like adult-sized mud pants but they are at their best in winter use. The color is utterly delightful and guaranteed to cause envy wherever you go. Plus when you ski in the wilderness to go ice fishing with these on, the rescue party will find you before you even manage to get lost.

Size info

The pants are roomy, and the inseams are short on purpose: these are worn with winter boots, and excess length is undesirable. Don't pick a too large size!

These are made in various widths and lengths – just like jeans! The Austrian Bundesheer size in the brackets uses regular numbers for the width and Roman numerals for the length. Even in the case of pants, the width is based on chest size, as is common in Europe. The assumption is that a regular man will have a waist 12 cm (~5") smaller than his chest.

The size conversions and recommendations are based on our measuring work, customer feedback, and naturally wearing these ourselves. Don't get hung up on the numbers, though: surplus clothes often have variation.

Pay attention: the waist sizes below are recommended body measurements! The actual pants are larger for clearance.

Condition

Austrian military surplus. Some appear unissued and some have seen some use but they are all intact, clean and totally serviceable.