Sundazed (West Germany) 80s, Prym, Lambskin, Cold War-era

Sundazed (West Germany) 80s, Prym, Lambskin, Cold War-era SUNDAZED & OUTSIDE SOCIETY S.O.S. | sundazed.io/sos A West German leather blouson, c.1987–1993, designed for urban durability and modular efficiency within the Cold War civilian garment economy. The leather blouson jacket, devoid of overt branding, originates from a mid-to-late 20th-century European manufacturing tradition rooted in standardized utility and material efficiency rather than designer authorship. Its likely provenance is West Germany, where during the late 1970s through the early 1990s, a highly industrialized garment sector supported both domestic and export markets through private-label and department store production. The integration of a Prym zipper—produced by the renowned German hardware manufacturer based in Stolberg—grounds this piece firmly within the West German manufacturing ecosystem, linking it to a network of contract producers servicing Nordic, Benelux, and Austrian markets with garments emphasizing durability, technical discipline, and visual moderation. The jacket’s absence of signature branding, combined with its industrial precision and minimalist silhouette, places it within the broader context of Cold War-era Central European utilitarian fashion—distinct from artisanal or avant-garde trajectories, yet foundational to the postwar civilian-military hybrid vocabulary later abstracted by designers such as Helmut Lang and Kostas Murkudis.