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About stonegrey tunics
I'm curious to know, did SS ever wear stone-grey (Steingrau) tunics? I know they had stiefelhosen in this color, but I see this color used in tunics in various reproductions and movies, but never in real items, so I started to wonder if it's just fantasy...I know the different shades of ''feldgrau'' are endless, but does stonegrey even fall into this category? Are there clear colored photographs of these kind of tunics?
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10-31-2016 08:11 AM
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The over coat, I think, is Shea's.
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and, field grey was infamous for being a color with a great variety of shades, from the outset. You can see this fact in the extant color photographs where
various pieces of headwear scarcely match the tunic of blouse. These facts do not appear to have bothered people at the time very much.
Mr. d'Alquen or Mr. Saris likely have a more clever answer than what I have offered you, but I generalize from my collection and an above average interest in these
things.
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I will refrain from the puerile references to shades of grey in contemporary Sittengeschichte, also.
So much of what I read that is extracted from English language collector books, without rigorous research, and muddled through average or below average minds
unable to cope with historical complexity, offers the serious collector no hint to the reality of the past.
Collectors discover small distinctions that likely meant nothing to contemporaries, which lived in a more varied and less standardized world than ours.
At a certain point, Germans wore what ever textile was at hand, granted scarcity and war time rationing.
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Here is another Drillich example used by the SS-VT in the pre war era. The Color is Grey/green.
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But this is mine, and it shows you a variety of cotton textiles ca. 1935, to include earth brown for the SS and other branches of the party organizations.
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