Early underwear

[michiel01]

I know the Wehrmacht used this white type of underwear early wars (later also came the shirts with collar) But is this specific shirt a good one?

The buttons are made of a thin sort of metal (lead?Zinc?) with a cardboard backing and are (well I should say: were) coverred with cloth. It's not as rough woven as Tricot, more like cotton.

If more photos could help, let me know.



last photo is from the tag in the neck, it says on the other side: Ideal

best wishes, Michiel

[corporalSteiner]

later underwear wouldnt have had collars either, surely?...i have seen this collarless buttoned neck pattern in green, so maybe the one i saw was late war? it had grosse and rbn stamps in its favour though. this one hasnt. and re buttoned wrist here, im not sure if thats a legit wh underwear feature. sorry.

[michiel01]

Saiz, has in his book a same type of shirt, but in tricot. Those allso have this type of sleeves with buttons.