K.P. RuusKanen (Finland) 80s, State-Regulated, Civil Service

K.P. RuusKanen (Finland) 80s, State-Regulated, Civil Service SUNDAZED & OUTSIDE SOCIETY S.O.S. | sundazed.io/sos Produced by K.P. RuusKanen, the Finnish coat embodies postwar municipal tailoring traditions shaped by climate logic and state textile policy. Produced under the manufacturing label K.P. RuusKanen Oy in Tampere, Finland, the coat exemplifies the industrial tailoring traditions that shaped Finland’s domestic garment economy from the mid-20th century through the early 1990s. Ruuskanen functioned not as a fashion house but as a regional industrial manufacturer operating within a state-regulated textile economy—serving department stores, municipal outfitting contracts, and the broader Scandinavian market with garments tailored to the demands of climate durability, formal propriety, and infrastructural necessity. The brand’s output reflects Finland’s broader postwar design ethos, where garments were conceived less as expressions of individuality and more as calibrated garments of professional and civic coherence. This coat occupies that precise cultural space: urban, functional, and deliberately anonymous. Engineered as transitional outerwear for the Northern European commuter, the coat deploys a polycotton shell in a tight, warp-dominant plain weave—estimated between 210–230 GSM—composed of a 50/50 blend of polyester and cotton.