Vaude

FAQ

Why Vaude?

The high-quality and sustainable Vaude clothing meets the taste of all generations and many outdoor enthusiasts. Be it with bike backpack and bike jacket in the saddle of the mountain bike on the way on rough trails, with hiking boots on foot in rocky heights or quite casual with the Vaude bag on the streets worldwide - the products meet the demanding expectations and individual tastes. Vaude offers not only functional trekking clothing for the whole family, but also fashionable clothing for the urban environment, and also technical high-altitude touring clothing for demanding alpinists and tourers.

What does the Vaude clothing range include?

Within the outdoor clothing Vaude offers the largest product variety in the field of outdoor jackets. In addition to breathable, functional softshell jackets in casual jacket or sporty style. Intended for more demanding alpine use are among the products of Vaude clothing hardshell jackets. They are available as double jackets - also called 3-in-1 jackets - for all seasons with removable insulation and as special winter jackets with permanently integrated insulation. Both types are models designed for use in sports as well as for everyday use in fashionable cuts and colors to order in the Vaude Online Shop at eXXpozed. Furthermore, in addition to the aforementioned outdoor jackets, Vaude clothing includes wind and rain jackets, which are usually very light and can therefore be pulled over the sweater or a midlayer jacket. Who prefers even more breathability, can fall back on one of the softshell vests, which are available just like fleece vests in the Vaude store.

Outdoor pants form the second largest segment within the Vaude clothing. The most common pants are trekking pants, followed by touring pants and bike pants. Touring and trekking pants are usually developed multifunctionally and thus cover the use in almost all sports. Of course, they provide a high degree of freedom of movement, which makes them suitable for climbing, are windproof and water-repellent. In addition, the functional effect of a Vaude trekking pants is strengthened by the right choice of baselayer and can thus be adapted for greater temperature differences. For alpine use, for permanent snowfall and continuous rain, the German quality manufacturer Vaude offers rain pants or Vaude ski pants. The latter were specially designed for use in ski touring.

Vaude clothing - natural and sustainable also for hands and head: of course, an assortment of headgear and gloves must not be missing at the brand. Thus, even arctic temperatures can be braved in this area with the help of caps and high-quality, warm gloves. With Vaude clothing you are thus equipped from head to toe for your outdoor activities.

What types of shoes are available at Vaude?

The Vaude footwear range - one of the brand's younger product segments - now includes high and low, sturdy and less sturdy, but always comfortable hiking boots and approach shoes for adventurers big and small. The versatile bike shoes make the heart of mountain bike and cycling enthusiasts beat faster. It does not matter how bottomless and muddy the single trail may be, the bike shoes provide reliable grip on the surface and in the pedals.

Which Vaude clothing for which area of use?

From cycling fans, bike enthusiasts and hikers, to mountaineers, alpinists, climbers and boulderers, to inhabitants of the urban jungle - Vaude covers a wide range of outdoor lifestyle fashion and outdoor functional clothing. In the diverse product range of the sustainable outdoor outfitter, the technical rain jacket and pants, the functional softshell jacket as a midlayer and the matching underwear as a baselayer go hand in hand with fashionable and functional lifestyle garments. The target group of Vaude can be found in the mountains as well as on trips to distant countries by pedes with backpack or pedal with bike bag, on adventurous expeditions with tent and in the lively everyday jungle with raincoat. Let someone say that he will not find what he is looking for in the high-quality product range of Vaude...

How is Vaude's quality tested?

All products, from alpine backpacks to tents, are constantly tested for quality at all stages of production - for example, through material tests for jackets and internal production controls for backpacks. As an outfitter for mountain guides, the teaching team of the DAV, and renowned athletes, Vaude equips many outdoor specialists who rely on Vaude quality day after day: On their hiking boots and backpack during demanding mountain tours in the Alps, their tent and sleeping bag during trekking adventures in Scandinavia, or on their bike bag and rain jacket during around-the-world bike tours. - Their trust is the greatest motivation for Vaude to develop even better products.

What awards can Vaude record?

Victories in tests by renowned trade magazines and awards by independent experts receive the products from the Vaude collection at regular intervals. In the process, the company achieves the best ratings in terms of function, design and environmental friendliness. In 2020, the family-run company received the Sustainability Award, which recognizes its many years of commitment to protecting the environment and people. Vaude was further honored with the New York Award, which annually honors innovative corporate cultures. The company adapts these to the demands of the times and therefore builds internal structures on trust and self-realization. Of course, Vaude counts numerous other achievements.

What does the Green Button mean?

The Green Button is a government seal of the Federal Republic of Germany that identifies sustainably manufactured products. People and the environment must be protected to the highest degree throughout the production process. To this end, the state sets 46 demanding human rights and ecological criteria and conditions that a company must meet in order to receive the Green Button Sigel. Both the products and the company itself are examined in the process. Wastewater limits, the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and the prohibition of child and forced labor, among many other factors, must be guaranteed. The Green Button gives consumers orientation and creates trust through transparent communication of the supply chain.

Is the Vaude outdoor clothing and equipment also available for little adventurers?

Who knows Vaude, knows: also on small outdoor fans is thought. As for the adults, there is no compromise on quality and function in children's clothing. In addition to robust children's jackets and children's pants for everyday, universal use, there is not only a single children's backpack, but a whole Vaude children's backpack collection, even travel bags for children were not forgotten. Vaude children's clothing and Vaude children's backpacks can be found in almost all forest kindergartens for a reason. Vaude is the outdoor brand with a particularly big heart for children!

What backpacks produces Vaude?

The diverse Vaude backpack range includes trekking backpacks in various sizes, hiking backpacks for every imaginable mountain adventure, lightweight touring and special ski touring backpacks, classic bike backpacks and technical bike backpacks, as well as casual daypacks and pretty kids backpacks for every taste and age. Even the smallest outdoor fans are not forgotten and get a big piece of the outdoor cake in the comfortable Vaude kids carriers.

What camping equipment does Vaude offer?

On a trekking tour lasting several days, the weight of the camping equipment naturally plays a greater role than when you start your vacation by car. Vaude also offers a wide selection in the field of outdoor camping equipment: Sleeping bags, sleeping pads and tents are of course part of it - and some other useful outdoor accessories such as matching tent groundsheets. Light, compressible, warm down sleeping bags or the robust, lightweight synthetic fiber sleeping bags ensure restful outdoor nights, especially in combination with the comfortable, lightweight sleeping pads. Spacious tunnel tents offer enough living space for the whole family in any weather, durable and stable geodesic tents are suitable for trekking and alpine use, and ultra-light dome tents with the smallest packing volume are ideal for bike tours lasting several days. They are just a small glimpse of the product range of the Vaude camping collection.

Where I you buy high-quality Vaude products cheap or order online?

In the Vaude Outlet at eXXpozed you will find a huge selection of reduced jackets, pants with high discounts, you will find the one or other backpack or a great bag from the previous year's collection at a bargain price. Every rain jacket, softshell jacket, bike jacket - every kind of Vaude clothing ends up in our outlet at some point, as soon as the new Vaude collection is available on the market. So at eXXpozed, in addition to the current collections, you will always find a great selection of bargains from our top brands, in this case in the Vaude Outlet.