Thanks for the update, Matteo! I assume you had verified that there were no partial remnants of a mummified elastic band inside the back hem? In what quarter was this jacket produced?
By all means feel free to "mess up" this table as much and as often as you are willing and able to. It was only offered as a suggested starting point for the identification and cataloguing of the many sub-sub-sub types of this widely available yet neglected uniform, not the final word!
The story would certainly be a nice and tidy one for us if all garment designers and manufacturers involved in making the FDA had gone about their business following a uniform and linear chronological order. Some of us may intuitively expect the East Germans to have actually behaved this way. However, such expectations are probably unrealistic in practice, especially when it comes to periods in which there is evidence of ongoing trials and experimentations that contributed to rapid design turnovers.
For example, 1967 is looking more and more like an especially "dynamic" year in that regard. Not only did the 1st Pattern Strichtarn come in different color schemes over the course of that year, along with major and minor changes to the design and construction details of the uniform itself, I have now come across some indication (not yet confirmed) that the 2nd Pattern Strichtarn actually made its debut that year as well (rather than in 1968, as I had previously believed)!
Given that all of the observations recorded in my table were made casually, based on rather tiny samples (often with n=1), there are probably many details that are in error, in addition to all the missing ones, which will need to be corrected and updated as they become known.
I've added your discovery to my spreadsheet.
cheers,
Gene T
By all means feel free to "mess up" this table as much and as often as you are willing and able to. It was only offered as a suggested starting point for the identification and cataloguing of the many sub-sub-sub types of this widely available yet neglected uniform, not the final word!
The story would certainly be a nice and tidy one for us if all garment designers and manufacturers involved in making the FDA had gone about their business following a uniform and linear chronological order. Some of us may intuitively expect the East Germans to have actually behaved this way. However, such expectations are probably unrealistic in practice, especially when it comes to periods in which there is evidence of ongoing trials and experimentations that contributed to rapid design turnovers.
For example, 1967 is looking more and more like an especially "dynamic" year in that regard. Not only did the 1st Pattern Strichtarn come in different color schemes over the course of that year, along with major and minor changes to the design and construction details of the uniform itself, I have now come across some indication (not yet confirmed) that the 2nd Pattern Strichtarn actually made its debut that year as well (rather than in 1968, as I had previously believed)!
Given that all of the observations recorded in my table were made casually, based on rather tiny samples (often with n=1), there are probably many details that are in error, in addition to all the missing ones, which will need to be corrected and updated as they become known.
I've added your discovery to my spreadsheet.
cheers,
Gene T
The jacket is 100% perfect with no sign of rust on the rings holding the buttons. The hem was certainly never meant to take an elastic. The back panel is made up of two pieces of cloth. Markings are for the third quarter of 1970. 
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