This Ebay seller has just put up for sale some images from the archives of a DDR photographer. Here you can see the link to the auctions:
http://www.ebay.de/sch/lehesten/m.ht....c0.m270.l1313
There are some interesting ones...
These two, obviously of wedding couples represent the first instances known to me of the D ring inside the open collar jacket being used for the intended purpose of hanging the dagger.
Otherwise the dagger is mostly to be seen hanging from the Gesellschaft tunic, or the old double breasted going out one. Perhaps these photographs are to be dated in between the introduction of the open collar tunic and that of the Gesellschaft one. Odd though that they carried on sewing that D ring in all of the ordinary open collar tunics until the very end, when actually hanging a dagger seems to have been more the exception than the rule.
And this Unterfeldwebel on the right seems to contravene regulations by wearing a dark collar tunic with shirt and tie underneath. I have a funny feeling that both shirt and tie are civilian ones too. Perhaps they wanted to match the double breasted smarter attire of the chap on the left and they couldn't... or could it be VOPO?
I would certainly NOT take this photograph as admissible evidence of dark collar tunics being LEGITIMATELY worn with shirt and tie.
http://www.ebay.de/sch/lehesten/m.ht....c0.m270.l1313
There are some interesting ones...
These two, obviously of wedding couples represent the first instances known to me of the D ring inside the open collar jacket being used for the intended purpose of hanging the dagger.
Otherwise the dagger is mostly to be seen hanging from the Gesellschaft tunic, or the old double breasted going out one. Perhaps these photographs are to be dated in between the introduction of the open collar tunic and that of the Gesellschaft one. Odd though that they carried on sewing that D ring in all of the ordinary open collar tunics until the very end, when actually hanging a dagger seems to have been more the exception than the rule.
And this Unterfeldwebel on the right seems to contravene regulations by wearing a dark collar tunic with shirt and tie underneath. I have a funny feeling that both shirt and tie are civilian ones too. Perhaps they wanted to match the double breasted smarter attire of the chap on the left and they couldn't... or could it be VOPO?
I would certainly NOT take this photograph as admissible evidence of dark collar tunics being LEGITIMATELY worn with shirt and tie.
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