mysterious fabric

[Alina Israeli]

К-м х/б пропитка ОП (малестин) куртка/брюки 
(www.sibkomplekt.ru/files/0/price/price.xls)

ОП = огнестойкая or огнезащитная пропитка

Also: Я потуже ремень на своей черной малестиновой механика куртке и - 
бросился к самолету. (svirskij-grigorij.viv.ru/cont/proshani/7.html )


Deborah Hoffman wrote:
> Dear Seelangovtsy!
>  
> I was wondering whether any of you may have encountered a fabric known as malestin (малестин). 
>  
> The context is: a family is in exile after having been dekulakized, and the mother turns an old coat out of this material into a jacket for her daughter. "Mne mama sshila iz staroi malestinovoi kurtki-spetsovki pal'to."
>  
> No living person I've encountered seem to know what it is, and some claim the word does not exist in Russian or I otherwise must have been mistaken, so I'm thinking it must be obscure and/or obsolete.
>  
> I've found only 2 references online (and none on paper)
>  
> here: http://kazaki-sc2.narod.ru/exc1.html
> «В летние школьные каникулы нас гусей у священника за трёхразовое питание, малестиновые штаны и ситцевую рубашку, которые получал к началу занятий в школе осенью.»
>  
> and here: http://libsi.liim.ru/creations/f-003/f-003-05.html
> <<Переводил деньги домой родителям, рублей 500 перевел, одежду хорошую завел: костюм, сапоги лакированные, рубашки и штаны малестиновые широкие>>
>  
> Any tips welcome - moleskin has been suggested but I always thought of that as a more delicate fabric than these usages would suggest.
>  
> Thanks in advance,
> Deborah
>  
>  
> Deborah Hoffman, Esq.
> Modern and Classical Language Studies
> Vice-Chair, Graduate Student Senate
> Kent State University
>
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