Very Early Moleskinhose

[allen]

On ebay.de right now, a pair of early moleskin pants in a style I've never seen. They have a belt, like the early HBT pants! Has anyone else seen these before? As usual with the really interesting stuff, no shipping to North America.
http://www.ebay.de/itm/Moleskinhose-...:SS:SS:US:1120

[Collectinsteve]

Yup, that's a really nice example of the very limited winter trousers. This item was designed to compliment the first winter parka ("snorkel"). It was replaced by a much simpler and cheaper overpants that continued on in various forms through to the introduction of Goretex.

Here is a thread I made for winter uniform discussion a bunch of years ago:

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...ghlight=winter

I see them come up for sale every so often. I have two, IIRC, and they were also from 1959.

Steve

[allen]

So this wasn't simply an earlier version of the first type moleskin trouser? Did it have a button in liner?

[Collectinsteve]

No, it's not moleskin at all. It's made of the same (or almost the same?) cloth as the parka. There is no liner for it as far as I know. If there was, it was like the older Teddyfutter type for the Splittertarn uniform. Meaning, it was a layer and not buttoned in.

Steve