Tropical pants - Heer, LW, KM?

[Stepdale]

size markings and last photo

[anmarlodz]

seem to be riding breches made from italian olona cloth. typical for late war. nice catch.

[NZMark]

...But not standard Heer pattern.
Mark

[Stepdale]

Thanks guys. I've searched all through the forum and found only one similar pair, listed as LW. Without markings, I'm not sure what service they were for. They're definitely nice and original though.

[John Huff]

Can't give references but my gut opinion is KM probably made in France.

[Stepdale]

Thanks everyone! I'm still not positive if this can be identified to a certain service. Guess I'll call them late war multiservice breeches.

[Stepdale]

Hello,
Did a little bit of research on the WaF, but see that there is still some speculation on these breeches as to whether they are KM or Heer or could be used by any service. I believe the olona cloth means that they were most likely for use with the late war olona cloth Heer tunics, but I believe I've seen posts stating that there were KM tunics made out of the cloth as well. Maybe I'm confused on all of it since cloth is not my main interest, so wanted to bring this post back up to see if anyone can give me a better idea of exactly what they are.
Thank you,
Dale

[OSS]

These breeches are almost certainly original period made but I am thinking probably not military but some para military organization; possibly NSKK or Org. Todt (both of which had summer uniforms).

[NickG]

Nice and indeed made in Olona, Italian tropical smooth cotton!

[billbert]

Nskk for Motorcycle??Billbert

[Stepdale]

Everybody's guess is as good as mine, I guess! I have no idea, except that the material matching the olona cloth tunics leads me to believe that these were made to go with those. But I haven't see all of the olona cloth tunics that exist other than what are apparently Heer tunics so I can't say for sure. Guess I need to look at some of those, but without any unit/organization markings on these pants it will still be hard to prove exactly what they were for.
Dale

[gigi196]

Hello everybody,
I've seen the trousers that started this thread and thought to mine. They look very similar, identycal in all aspect apart from the sand painted metal hooks (political style)...I would like your opinions on them.
Thanks in advance

Gigi

[gigi196]

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[OSS]

Hello everybody,
I've seen the trousers that started this thread and thought to mine. They look very similar, identycal in all aspect apart from the sand painted metal hooks (political style)...I would like your opinions on them.
Thanks in advance

Gigi

These may be Waffen SS (tropical issue).

[Stepdale]

Yes, this pattern is similar but has quite a number of differences from those I posted.