Opinions On Luftwaffe Mess Jacket

[Wijtman01]

HI MATES CHECK THIS ONE OUT ON THE ESTAND IM PLANNING ON BUYING THE TUNIC
ANY OPINIONS EAGLE LOOKS GOOD TO ME
AND LOOPS TO

DOES ANYONE HAVE A PERIOD PHOTO OF A MESS JACKET IN WEAR

DID THEY WEAR THIS TO SPECIAL OCCASIONS OR GALA?

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=201068

[Mike H]

Photos

These beautiful pieces are covered in Brian Davis' books on the Luftwaffe. A complete set comes with best (both blue and white) and pants with a beautiful wide stripe.

Here is a photo of one in wear by a Knight's Cross winner (Stuka pilot).

Mike

[J. Hahn]

The one on the e-stand looks very nice IMO, eagle included.

[GdC26]

Michael,
Jacket looks good, but if you want to display it on a bust, you will need a shirt, bowtie and vest. If you want to display it on a mannequin, you will additionally need the matching pants to go with it (LW blue woll with a silver stripe).

The shirts can occasionally be found in the vintage clothing section of german e-bay. Same for the white or black bowtie.

The silver striped pants are much harder to find, and so is the vest (lw blue wool or white cotton, dependig on the occasion).

Philipp militaria has a set with the white vest.
Hope of use,
Regards,
Sandro

[RUHL13]

That one looks good, heres mine on a bust mannequinn. Used a regular white shirt, long black tie to hide the vest thats not there. Seems that the vests are hard to find. Only saw a few that had original vest. This guy was highly decorated. Good luck, that one on estand is nice, IMO.
Regards,
Gary

[Wijtman01]

very nice
does anyone have period pictures of these things in actual wear
i want to print one next to the tunic

[PaulR]

Look in Post #2...

[Wijtman01]

i get that
does anyone else have photo's of these in wear i want to dysplay it with a foto in actual wear\please post the photo if you have one\
michael

[RUHL13]

Look in the photo section, under RK photos, I noticed one there.
Around the first 10 replies.
Regards,
Gary

[RUHL13]

page 6 #90 to be exact.

[Wijtman01]

thanx mate
there are not many pcitures of these things around ey?
did pilots wear this to gala or dinner or other occasions?

still looking for photo's

[Wijtman01]