I wouldn't take the seller's word that gym is 1945. The epaulette loops look too narrow and the buttons securing the pogoni are wrong. Why not get some pictures of the stamps, inside of the pockets and back of the buttons?
As for the pogoni, they are a private's, so less likely a match to this gym if this indeed was a wartime garment (pockets present).
Something's not quite right with the piping - is it painted on and are these pretending to be wartime home made? If so, they don't have the expected wide tongues associated with wartime pogoni.
To me the stamp reads швейная ф ка Калинин (sowing factory Kalinin). Can't see if that's и before Kalinin or г. Guessing г (for city) otherwise Kalinin would be genitive.
I think I can also see a year (55) scraped out and a 45 painted in. 1955 would be consistent with the construction and materials.
The wound badges have been clumsily applied. By all means by this as a nice 1950s gym; just don't pay a WW2 price for it!
As far as I know white stamps were almost always postwar.
Thanks guys!
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