Post Your Smallest Wehrmacht Tunics

[DonC]

Heer, WSS, Luftwaffe or KM, let's see the tiniest tunics in your collection. I had long thought that the tunics of Ritter von Molo were some of the smallest out there (http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...light=von+Molo) until I picked up this summer tunic for an early Signals or Kradschützen Oberleutnant. It measures 13 1/4 inches from shoulder seam to shoulder seam and is mounted on a male dress form for a ten to twelve year old boy and is somewhat snug on that! Please post yours.

Don

[PZKG]

Ï remember when I was a beginner I sent one back because I could not beleive how small it was.
Luckily now I know better...Here are my 2 smallest ones.
I had to cut down the male forms considerably to fit them on and you can see how small they are by the size of the awards and mapcase compared with them.

Mads

[JasonA]

Hi Don,

A good idea for a thread. Do collectors still prefer larger sizes in general, and is that strictly because of the ease in fitting to a torso? I always focused on the piece itself and whether that fit into my concentration or not - the size was irrelevant. But we all collect differently based on what's important to us. I still recognize that prices tend to be higher for larger sized helmets and caps, particularly.

J-

[merdock]

Hi,
Agreed job thread I find that most tunics are small.

[DonC]

I do think the larger ones are more sought-after unless they are named or to a well-known individual - certainly for me, that is something I prefer just for the ease of displaying on a mannequin or dress form. I probably had over a hundred tunics pass though my hands over the years, and I can think of only one that would fit me, and I wear about a 40 or 42 long.

Don

[Nick Komiya]

Here's one that I found to be very vertically challenged, although chest is a fairly average 90 for those times.

[NickG]

Here's my contribution, very small size.

[NickG]

There is a ghost of a gefreiter winkel...
Age toned tresse almost look Tropical!

[DonC]

Bringing this up to the top as I found one that beat my summer tunic - this Nebel Waffenrock by Reitz fits my 12 year old son almost perfectly. The cuff tabs are not sewn on in the regulation manner because there was no way for the tailor to fit the tress over the buttons due to the small size. It is incredible to me to think that an Oberfeldwebel could be the size of a 12 year old boy.

Don

[DonC]

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[N.C. Wyeth]

Small and thin!

Here's one of my little, skinny fella's . . .

[germanmedals]

Here's one that I found to be very vertically challenged, although chest is a fairly average 90 for those times.

This tunics are i think almost the same,...just the huge pockets on the other make it look like small

[Stephen Viola]

Here's my smallest tunic. Haven't been able to find a mannequin small enough to display it yet.

[DonC]

The issue-quality EM/NCO eagles especially give it away as they were really only produced in one size.

Don

[BlaineLeamon87]

I recently picked this piped Cav set up, one of the smallest uniforms I've owned myself.

Blaine