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Nevisport/Alpendale Salopettes

Accession Number

306.2008.1

Object Name

Nevisport/Alpendale Salopettes

Created

11/11/2008

Creator

Hermione Cooper

Accession Date

11/11/2008

Brief Description

Nevisport/Alpendale gents salopettes. Nylon braces with plastic toggles. One zipped pocket on chest. Two side zipped pockets and side entry zip with button at top. Two button tie pockets on back.

Materials

nylon, acrylic, elastane, wool

Dimensions

Inside leg 70cms.

Number Of Objects

1

Inscription Description

"NEVISPORT" on black label on chest pocket. Inside a label with mountains and fir tree background reads "ALPENDALE" Another label reads "MADE IN ENGLAND" and laundry label reads
"SUPERFLEX M MECTEX, MADE IN ITALY"

Colour

blue

Maker

Alpendale

Object Production Place

Italy

Provenance

Salopette is a french word meaning overalls or dungarees, though the skiing mountaineering versions tend to be minus the sleeves. Very popular with downhill skiers, the salopettes became popular too with mountaineers in the 1970’s and the pair we have here in the collection date from that era.
A bit like the modern supermarkets ‘own brand’ Nevisport got the clothing companyAlpendale to make them so it is only on the inside of the garment that we find the Alpendale logo along with info on the material used … see opposite.
Also opposite is a member of the infamous Creag Dubh Mountaineering Club, Mick Noon. He is wearing a set of overalls ‘borrowed’ from the Glasgow shipyards and coated in ’dope’ which in this context is a form of liquid tar which becomes waterproof when dry….definitely one for the textile/fashion historians.

Acquisition Date

11/11/2008

Condition Check Date

28/04/2009

Rules

Spectrum : UK Museum documentation standard, V.3.1 2007

Modified

28/04/2009

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