Known in Europe as Taiga, the Swedish brand uses the name Torraka in North America. As you’d imagine, they’ve got some interesting cold weather clothing, although it’s a little different than what we are used to.
Designed for conditions between 5 deg and -45 deg Celsius, the Torraka system starts with fishnet top and boxer base layer as well a level two long underwear.
When you need more insulation, they offer a fleece jacket and knicker length pant which can be donned and doffed even while wearing boots.
This is their cold weather combat uniform which constructed with a Gore-Tex membrane rather than offering an additional Gore-Tex outer layer.
For even colder condistions, they offer a reversible (Torraka Multi Terrain Pattern to Torraka Snow UV Pattern) insulation level which can be quickly dried. You may also notice that the trousers are boot height rather than full length. With the addition of this level, you can go down to -45 Degrees Celsius.
Torraka also offers a variety of head, hand and footwear to help you deal with these extreme conditions. The loft insulation throughout was referred to as Thermalight.
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Best cold weather combat gear there is. This system is used bybil the true subject matter experts in artic warfare..
Norwegian SF, Swedish SF, Danish SF, Bristish SF etc etc
I have heard great things from this company.
Why place items on the floor however?
My guess, these items came out of a kit bag. Rather than placing them on mannequins, showing the system this way makes it much easier to try the items on, emphasize features and tell the layering story.
How else would you do it?
One has to wear these ‘fishnets’ underwear under the given circumstances to really apreciate them. I was amazed how well they work; in november in the Bardufoss (Norway) area a lot of troops were just wearing them with a gore-tex layer over them.
besides they work great for nights out at the gay-bar, so they serve double duty.
Could you elaborate? I’m curious as to how and why they work so well.
Dude it’s a mesh shirt… It’s pretty much gay club outfit #1.
If it’s anything like the Norwegian style mesh (which I can only assume), they work well because it’s not a flat jersey knit mesh. It’s kinda like a croche structure so it has more volume. The volume combined with hydrophilic fabric properties makes the transportation of moisture higher than your average shirt- combine it with an additional layer (level 2), and your skin will stay pretty much dry no matter how much you sweat.
Civie options are available from Aclima and Brynje.
That first picture seems to say, “wear the boot, or get a black foot.”
Well, when frostbite goes gangrenous…
Digging the pattern; I’d feel like I was wearing the dazzle paint scheme from a WW1 ship.
Love this pattern, never understood all the super tiny, super faint snow patterns on the market.
digging the boot length fleece as well.
The pantern comes from The Swedish Army, we have it in Forest, Desert and Winther, it was developed in the early 90’s and drill works
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drill-still….. Of course:-))