What are we looking at?
Just by comparing the two visable breast pockets of the two Allgemeine SS tunics thankfully shared by Peter in his comment 84 I see quite some differences - differences of size and the way they are sewed and that´s because they were handmade by two different tailors, and probably from slightly different material as well.
Who can really expect anything else by comparing period items?
Their outward appearance and consistency of material just cannot be looked at the same way as we look at period EK´s, IAB´s, daggers and any other machine made piece of period mass production and even in that field there are quite some differences in regards to the mentioned factors that come into play and have to be taken into account.
Yes, to some degree tunics were also mass production pieces but the whole "put together" was done by skillful hands and the way these hands did the job - even if it theoretically would have always been done by only one and the same person - these hands developed, were (had to be) faster or slower due to circumstances of time and had to deal with different degrees of quality in regards to the used materials over the years as well.
In fact there were thousands of tailors making them anyway.
The only way we can narrow it down to some degree is the fact that black Allgemeine SS tunics were not made through the whole period means wartime - although there might have been exceptions.
Just by comparing the two visable breast pockets of the two Allgemeine SS tunics thankfully shared by Peter in his comment 84 I see quite some differences - differences of size and the way they are sewed and that´s because they were handmade by two different tailors, and probably from slightly different material as well.
Who can really expect anything else by comparing period items?
Their outward appearance and consistency of material just cannot be looked at the same way as we look at period EK´s, IAB´s, daggers and any other machine made piece of period mass production and even in that field there are quite some differences in regards to the mentioned factors that come into play and have to be taken into account.
Yes, to some degree tunics were also mass production pieces but the whole "put together" was done by skillful hands and the way these hands did the job - even if it theoretically would have always been done by only one and the same person - these hands developed, were (had to be) faster or slower due to circumstances of time and had to deal with different degrees of quality in regards to the used materials over the years as well.
In fact there were thousands of tailors making them anyway.
The only way we can narrow it down to some degree is the fact that black Allgemeine SS tunics were not made through the whole period means wartime - although there might have been exceptions.
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