Swedish Wool Pants, Navy Blue, Surplus

A small batch of Swedish dark Navy blue woolen trousers! These are proper old timey everyday pants for proper use. Because they're Swedish, the fabric is soft and surprisingly nice to the touch. After this small lot is gone, we will probably never see these again.

Now my good sir, look at that properly high waist! It hides brace buttons on the inside and very cool looking belt loop system; more like belt tunnels. These will take max. 35 mm wide belts. The leg is extremely wide, but the waist and hip area is more form fitting, as is typical for trousers of this era. For performing commando acrobatics darts are provided on the front. The buttons are either plastic or some very cool and weird cardboard-tin mixture. Along with the suspender buttons these have a button fly with an additional wind flap. Because these aren't modern mass-produced crap, there's some extra fabric on back the waist to modify the fit if needed. Likewise the reinforced leg ends can be shortened a bit, but making them longer is more difficult. Both of these can probably be done if necessary.

The overall quality is superb, and you can be sure these are actually made in Sweden. In the old days clothes like these were meant to last a long time and if you weren't issued with them in the army/navy, you had to pay a hefty price for them. If made today with the same specs, we think these might fetch some 300 EUR, or more.

Material and care

Indeed: these are made of wool or wool blend, depending on the production model. It sucks every hair in the room in it, doesn't easily soil or stink, can take a machine wash in 30 degrees Celsius with a gentle wool cycle, and overall provokes feelings of Properness and confidence in the wearer and sensations of jealousy and admiration in others.

Size system

The size system is the old Swedish Navy one (maybe you have heard from it? No?), but we had to measure the waist and inseam anyway, they are in centimeters after the size code. Remember: These pants have to be worn at your waist level, not on your hips like some crappy jeans, so measure your waist boldly at the navel!

Used Swedish surplus

Decades old Navy fashion, and these have certainly been used; they might have some old stain here or there, small repairs of various kinds and naturally some wear on the fabric in spots most prone to use. Sometimes it's difficult to bring all of these up in photographs, but we can say that after a little pre-wear cleanup they are in good shape for a shore leave out in the town.