Wehrmacht Camouflage Parka
Price: Sold
Description: The Parka is three quarter length, of water repellant, cotton/rayon blend construction, double breasted style parka features the machine roller printed, geometric Swamp/Marsh-Tan/ camouflage pattern in shades of subtle tans, browns and greens with small, repeating, green “rain-drops” to the exterior and non-reversible with a silky-grey rayon lined interior.
The parka features a large, overlapping, vertical, six button front closure with a smaller, and overlapping, exterior, wind flap. The parka has two, slightly, diagonal slash hip pockets with straight edged, button down flaps, positioned at either side of the front closure, at the waistline. The straight cut, dual-ply, sleeve cuffs each have a machine stitched, horizontal, tunnel loop with an inserted, horizontally extended, white and grey/green fabric, fit adjustment draw strap with a single button eyelet and dual corresponding fit adjustment buttons to each cuff.
The sleeves each have a large, dual-ply, rectangular reinforcement panel to each elbow and molded black Bakelite buttons to both the inner and outer, upper sleeve seams, which were designed for wear of the identification armbands by front line troops.
The parka has a single-ply, unpadded, integral hood, which is large enough to accommodate a helmet. The forward edge of the hood has four, small, evenly spaced, tapering darts and a machine stitched, tunnel loop with an inserted, twisted, white cotton fit adjustment drawstring intact; all original buttons and stitching; medium size, about a US40; excellent-These are less common than the reversible to white type.
