Use of captured French fabrics for tropical uniforms?

[Tim O'Keefe]

With all the written and photographic evidence, there is no doubt about the use of captured clothing parts and equipment like french shirts, dutch pith helmets or british khaki uniforms, but I guess getting some evidence on the use of captured raw materials is a harder case to crack.

I also think it's possible that the germans not only used the already existing fabric but had the french weaving mills make more of the stuff with the remaining stocks of cotton they had.
This could also be a reason why the variety in fabrics used in german tropical uniforms increased over time, the french stocks just slowly dried out.

Not sure that the initial DAK uniforms were from French material. But are instead made of German stock. Only six or seven makers of tropical kit were around in 1940 but by 1942 it had increased to over 36 different makers which accounts for the variety in fabric & technique. As mentioned don't doubt it could happen.

If anybody can show a German made tropical cap/tunic or even just a shoulderstrap from this French fabric that would be helpful....