dralon (Germany) 70s, Jacquard, Thermal Double Knit, Celestial

dralon (Germany) 70s, Jacquard, Thermal Double Knit, Celestial SUNDAZED & OUTSIDE SOCIETY S.O.S. | sundazed.io/sos ...The women’s gingerbread-brown thermal jacquard cardigan—presumably German-made under the Dralon label, a historic producer of double-knit synthetics throughout the 1970s and 1980s—presents a rigorously constructed outerknitwear proposition that operates at the intersection of domestic pragmatism and speculative textile abstraction. Engineered from dense polyacrylic yarns using a double-knit structure characteristic of Dralon fibers, the garment capitalizes on the material’s thermal retention, structural integrity, and weather resistance—hallmarks of Northern European cold-weather knitwear design. The use of polyacrylic, with its softly felted, matte surface and thermal loft, enables the cardigan to function simultaneously as an insulative shell and sculptural form, holding its volume with a tactile firmness that resists collapse yet retains pliancy. This structural discipline—void of tailoring or internal reinforcement—positions the garment within a lineage of engineered warmth, where silhouette is stabilized through textile density rather than contoured fit, recalling the heritage knitwear approaches of Johnstons of Elgin and Jaeger. At the core of its visual identity lies an intricately arranged jacquard motif, composed of circular dot constellations and inverted gothic arches that cascade rhythmically down the garment’s surface.