Question about Gebirgsjäger tunic

[BenVK]

So, just for my own interest, is it acceptable for a privately tailored jacket to have been sewn together with such bad sewing skill? I'm not talking about the insignia.

Like I said earlier, I'm no expert on tunics, caps are my area, but I would not except this standard of sewing on a contract cap let alone a tailored piece. Plus I have a few factory made trop tunics and the machine sewing is miles better on all of them than this one.

[sonderverband]

My 2 cents:

• Real tunic
• The edelweiss may have been done by the soldier, the EK2 most certainly was.

I wouldn't have any problem with this in my collection. Officer grade tunics for NCO's are very rare... they didn't have that kind of money in most cases.

[Soldat de Fer]

Hello
You know , not every German soldiers were "expert" at sewing
I don't really care about how the sewing fashion should be , since every single tunic ( talking about outside the factory here !!! not factory applied insignias !!!) would have completely different degree of sewing , from the expert taylor to Hans's " in the bunker done sewing job" . All I really care about is " is the insigne original to the tunic " and there is quite few ways to tell and if your opinion is based solely on the sewing job , well ....
Regards
P-Y

[BenVK]

No guys, I'm talking about the sewing of the jacket itself, not the insignia. It's terrible. Different weights of stitch, off line etc etc. It's very shoddy.

[Johnny R]

To be honest, I never even looked at the insignia. The first thing I saw was the liner application. I have no trouble believing a soldier with limited skills sewed on his insignia but I have a big problem accepting that he also sewed in the liner. That is the only issue I have with it and seeing more pictures may prove me wrong.