Elongated diamond tresse - myth versus reality

[Johnny R]

Tress

Chris, thanks for providing us with this very helpful material.

[Gary Wood]

Interesting thread

re post #4;
the top strap in that photo has the tress sewn on back to front, hence the bar (=) joining the diamonds together.

I have some samples somewhere in time i will dig them out and post them within this thread,

[Gary Wood]

Here is a shot of a piece of subdued tress front and back showing

[Gary Wood]

Here it is again on SS pattern tropical tress.

[Diane]

Some Tropical Tress images

Here are some more Tress variations:

[Lenny W]

thanks great thread

[baptistegg]

thank you too, very helpfull thread.

Get a period picture should be hard, but why not looking and close the debate.

thx

[don_kihotis7]

Helpful and informative thread. Cheers.

[Ludwig vK]

Hi, first post. Lots of interesting reading here. Can anyone explain the difference between the silver aluminium tresse seen posted here and this type (see image). Specifically, where was this type of tresse used. Apollogies if this is an obvious question.
Thanks.

[Johnny R]

This is a type of tresse most often used by RAD but I have also seen used by the SS and Heer for shoulder boards.

[OSS]

Hi, first post. Lots of interesting reading here. Can anyone explain the difference between the silver aluminium tresse seen posted here and this type (see image). Specifically, where was this type of tresse used. Apollogies if this is an obvious question.
Thanks.

This tress was originally made for the oatmeal colored HBT drill outfit (the black edging was intended to make the tress show up against the neutral background). It was susequently used on the green HBT tunics.

[Ludwig vK]

Thanks for the replies. I did find out the answer elsewhere on this forum soon after I posted the question. The reason I was asking is I am looking at adding tresse to a HBT tunic and wondered which type was correct.

EDIT: So, to clear this up, would this be the type to use on the collar of a M42 HBT tunic?