{"id":27818,"date":"2025-09-23T08:02:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T13:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/23\/where-i-shop-for-clothes-gear-and-why-its-varusteleka\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T08:02:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T13:02:03","slug":"where-i-shop-for-clothes-gear-and-why-its-varusteleka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/23\/where-i-shop-for-clothes-gear-and-why-its-varusteleka\/","title":{"rendered":"Where I Shop for Clothes &#038; Gear (and why it&#8217;s Varusteleka)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wbRYTEfSltQ?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/varusteleka.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/varusteleka.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been wearing Varusteleka clothing in my daily life and using their military kit for many years now, because t&#8217;swell made, high quality, and comfortable. They very much fit the Nordic stereotype of &#8220;buy once, cry once&#8221; and making things that will last a lifetime. They have just recently relaunched a new web store, which you should check out:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/varusteleka.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/varusteleka.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And hey, if you are interested in some good Forgotten Weapons merch, they do that for me as well:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/varusteleka.com\/en\/collections\/forgotten-weapons-merchandise\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/varusteleka.com\/en\/collections\/forgotten-weapons-merchandise<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer: The company gave me the items I bought in this video. They did not fly me to Finland to pick them up though; I was already there for filming and research &#8211; so stay tuned for an awesome book on Finnish small arms and videos on Finnish sniper rifles (among many other things)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/varusteleka.com\/ I&#8217;ve been wearing Varusteleka clothing in my daily life and using their military kit for many years now, because t&#8217;swell made, high quality, and comfortable. They very much fit the Nordic stereotype of &#8220;buy once, cry once&#8221; and making things that will last a lifetime. They have just recently relaunched a new web store,&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/23\/where-i-shop-for-clothes-gear-and-why-its-varusteleka\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Where I Shop for Clothes &#038; Gear (and why it&#8217;s Varusteleka)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":27819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}