Polish Armed Forces Wz. 93 “Pantera”

Hi guys, today we're going to be taking a look at another piece from Poland. This is a WZ-93 pattern insulated winter jacket. The quilted liner is stitched in and not removable. And this particular piece was produced in the year 2000. Now this pattern was introduced in 1993 although I have seen photos of the WZ-68 moral pattern and WZ-89 puma pattern also being used concurrently with this pattern. And I've also made a video on both of those uniforms and I've made a video comparing and contrasting all three. So definitely check those out if you're interested in the differences. Now this pattern adds a lot more functionality. We have four pockets on the front and two on the left arm and one on the right arm. Right off the bat we have way more pockets and a lot more functionality. So if we look at the top two pockets, they're both pleated with two buttons each and they have quite a bit of material on the right side and none extra on the left. So probably for magazines or whatever. But yeah, you can kind of like store your garbage in here if you really want to. Same thing on the left. These ones are buttoned. And down here we have much larger pockets which are also pleated. Yeah, pretty much every pocket on this uniform, you know, is pleated. It looks pretty good. It's a nice common military style. But yeah, here we are. Got the buttons here. Pretty small, but you know, nothing too bad. Also pleated on the right side. Like the top one that just straight stitched on on the left. And you'll see it's symmetrical on this side as well. But we have this time on the right stitched and then the extra material on the left. So pretty cool. And you know, just to note about the pattern, unlike the previous two, this one is definitely more practical in terms of the camouflage effectiveness. We've switched to a four color uniform this time with a, you know, forest green color, a brownish red color, a black color, and then like a tannish color. And these are, the way this pattern is arranged is in these blobs, these blobby shapes. Not too dissimilar to woodland, except they're very rounded. There's no sharp edges and they're not in a particular vertical, vertical or horizontal facing manner. They just kind of all, you know, expand and like, it's not in a horizontal shape. They're not going in like a horizontal direction or a vertical direction. They're just kind of all central. So yeah, pretty common. We used a pattern today. That's the currently issued one. And it looks pretty neat, actually. Yeah, it's a pretty cool pattern. But anyway, let's go to the left arm. Here we can see you have these two pleated pockets, which are about the same size as the top chest pockets, if you do a little comparison here. Pretty much the same size. And yeah, they also got buttons. Pretty much almost everything on this uniform uses buttons. However, there are some secret zippers and I'll show you where those are. But anyway, this one, pretty much the same thing as above, except instead of having two buttons, it has one in the middle. And on the arms, we have a really small button for your wrist, if you want to, you know, enclose them. And on the inside, we have the insulated material. Anyway, as you can see here, we've got the Polish flag, one on each side. And we do have these epaulettes. And like the previous edition of this uniform, the button is kind of hidden by the fabric. And we go here, we can see the tag with the size 98 centimeters by 175. Got the laundering instructions and comma is likely the manufacturing. That's my guess. The method of opening and closing the uniform, we've got these big black buttons. Then unbutton them all. Take a look at the inside. And one like hidden one up here. Here we are. It's a nice quilted layer. And I was wrong. Seems like you can partially undo it right here. A button there, a button there. But mostly like actually stitched in, as you can see. So I'm not sure what these buttons are for. But then again, here, got another information tag, 130 slash mon. You know, the month, year 2000. More information. But if you want to see this layer underneath the quilt, you can see it right here. Very interesting how they have those two buttons there. But for the rest of the uniform, you can't really like undo this. And then we have here the drawstring for the waistband. Or if you're like, yeah, tighten it up. But yeah, let's look at the weird zippers on the back. So flip it over. You'll notice a few things. And I didn't notice this quite at first. But there are actually two zippers, one here and one here. And if you undo them, it doesn't access a pocket or anything. It just brings you to the inside of the uniform. And you can stick your hand through, you know, to the other side. So I'm not really sure what that's about. Maybe for warming your hands. But it's kind of in the back of the uniform, which is kind of weird. But yeah, like you just kind of stick it in, and it just brings you to the other side of the uniform. It's not like an internal pocket. Like all the other previous iterations, we have this blank white piece of fabric sewed into the back. You know, and then for this, it's a little bit different because we have this extra layer of fabric. So you can see how that looks like that. And I'm sure this has been slightly changed over the years. And on the back, you kind of see the stitching here for like the elbows. I mean, this is the year 2000. So I'm sure there's other iterations of this winter uniform in this pattern. But here's the one from the year 2000. Pretty cool. We're just going to flip it over and then close out the video. So in terms of rarity, this is actually a pretty common pattern on the market right now. It's very available. You know, it's being sold in large quantities, surplused out. You can get pieces in this for really cheap online. Unlike the other two, which are quite a bit more rare. Like I said, these are being surplused out right now. So they're pretty cheap. I think I saw one of these online for like 25 bucks or so, plus shipping. Which isn't bad for a winter uniform, especially one of this quality. And it is pretty nice. I mean, the quilted layer seems very comfortable. I haven't actually tried it out in the snow or anything like that. So I'm not sure how warm it is exactly. But it seems to be well made and well constructed. So if you're looking for something pretty cool and affordable, I definitely say pick one of these up if you need it. Anyway, guys, if you enjoyed this video, please leave a like. Subscribe for more content. Thank you for watching and have a great day.