Friesennerz
The Page for yellow oilskin rainwear lovers
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This page is under construction. I always wish to have more time to
improve the page (more pictures, one or two nice raingear-stories, a seperate
link page, thumbnails...).
This page is dedicated to all lovers of rainwear and rubber boots. In the
near future I will add some more pic's (maybe some of myself in my favorite
rainwear, if you ask and send some pic's of you, which i can put on this
page) and interesting links for all lovers of yellow oilskins, rainwear,
rubberboots, waders and everything which makes fun in the rain.
Friesennerz is the german name for a very special kind of rainwear: A yellow
rubber raincoat with a blue backing. You can turn the yellow side inside
out so that you show the blue side to the public, while the yellow rubberized
side is facing your skin. The name consists of "Friesen" and
"nerz" and is a joke. The Friesen are the people at the coast
to the northern sea in germany, "nerz" is the german word for
mink. A "Friesennerz" is the best clothing of these people....
On this picture you see in the middle the typical "Friesennerz",
on the left and right side variations in color.
Did you know?
The Friesennerz is celebrating it's 250th birthday this
year!
In 1747 a french guy called Francois Fresnau applied yellow latex to
his coat to make it weatherproof. Since this time is yellow the classical
color of oilskins.
In this 250 years the Friesennerz was sometimes more popular, sometimes
not. Nowadys it disssapeared from the streets. A speaker of Jeantex in
Germany said according to a newsletterarticle, that Friesennerze are less
and less sold from year to year. The people want lighter raincoats and
breathable stuff.
If you like walking in the rain wearing heavy raingear and rubber boots
of all kind or or just wearing this stuff because of the feeling, send
me some lines .
Pictures for a special guest-page are always welcome.
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