Early parka material

[Graham G]

Hello,

Does anyone have any close-up images of the wool/gabardine material used in early mouse grey parkas?

Best regards

[Nick Komiya]

Is this close enough or do you need something even closer? It's the same as used for the SS winter tanker overalls

[Graham G]

Thanks for the image! Is it napped as normal uniforms, or not? I'm trying to find good fabric to reproduce one of the SS Winter Kombis.

[Nick Komiya]

No, it is more like gaberdine or what is left of a fieldgrey uniform cloth after it has lost all its nap.

[Scott A. Hess]

The material for the SS kombi and SS gabardine issue winter jacket and pants is quite different from standard uniform cloth. Most of the times you will find this fabric has lost all of its nap, on unissued pieces it is easy to see that the fabric when new did have a nice nap to it, not as heavy as uniform cloth, but it was present. Unfortunately, on these winter garments, the nap wears off very quickly, and you won't see what little was originally there unless you find such a garment that was unissued and stored for very well. The nap is much lighter and softer than uniform cloth.

[Scott A. Hess]

Is this close enough or do you need something even closer? It's the same as used for the SS winter tanker overalls

Nice looks like might be pre 42 litzmanstadt manufacture, potentially SS, depending on pocket flap cut and few other details. Kinda hard to make out writing on second pass...but def 42 or earlier.

[Graham G]

How heavy is the material compared to standard uniform material?

[Nick Komiya]

My army winter jacket is mint and my SS pz overall also excellent, but I would not call them nappy. You'll have to decide how much nap you see in the photo I provided, as you want to make a replica.

[anmarlodz]

Nice looks like might be pre 42 litzmanstadt manufacture, potentially SS, depending on pocket flap cut and few other details. Kinda hard to make out writing on second pass...but def 42 or earlier.

The name stand at the very end A.G. ( Aktien Gesellschaft ) so definatekly not Wirtschaftamts Litzmannstadt as this never ended with A.G. ending.

[anmarlodz]

How heavy is the material compared to standard uniform material?

Heavier than standart wool cloth.

[Graham G]

Does it appear to be plain weave or twill weave?

[Scott A. Hess]

No, it is more like gaberdine or what is left of a fieldgrey uniform cloth after it has lost all its nap.

Can we see the pocket flaps please?

[Nick Komiya]

Mine is Army, not with Waffen SS flaps.