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We found stacks of very large used white (sort of...) winter tarpaulins at one of our military surplus suppliers. The ripstop cotton duck canvas was loaded with character so we overlooked the fairly wide array of densities which range from so-stiff-it-stands-up-by-itself to heavy-but-foldable and we overlooked the surface discoloration that appeared throughout the inventory and decided to continue to embrace the willy-nilly nature of making garments from recut textiles.
Despite the stains and stiff areas, there was something about this material that screamed Graf Meets Nautilus. We don't make so many recut items and our recut customer understands that these things are part garment, part research project and part museum-item so we went ahead with our own vision of a snow mountain parka built from this burly repurposed fabric. The Nautilus D.G.L.
Like we've done with many of the jackets from Winter 2010 and 2011, we equipped the limited-edition Nautilus D.G.L. with an internal button-set allowing it to integrate with the Rogue Liner. This combination of the Rogue Liner buttoned into the Nautilus D.G.L. is pictured above.
Once the Nautilus designed was realized in white military spec material, the obvious influence of classic Belgian and German mountain parkas became even more apparent. But we promise ourselves to work to push the tradition of utility-tailoring forward, not just recreate historic design, so we set ourselves the challenge of making the parka's cowl removable. We're not the first to do a removable hood either, but we've tried to execute the idea with our own twist.
The epaulets on an under-jacket penetrate the cowl, folding over the shoulder and buttoning back through the cowl at a second contact-point, securing the hood and mantle in-place. A rhythm of snaps placed along the mantle edge matches to a complimentary set along the lower edge of the cowl, completing the attachment. Worship Tradition. Destroy Convention.
