I have handled so far three German suits with DB waistcoats without lapels.
Period illustrations also suggest that it certainly wasn't in unusual, though of course rare compared to normal SB fare.
I also don't think this is any sort of official Third Reich item...
could be from some youth gang (1930's to 60's?) or for post-war theatrical purposes (to avoid using the swastika or sig-runes or for a fictionalized dictatorship).
The obvious question: what's the provenance - where did you get...
White cotton jersey shirt with double breast pockets.
It is a newer shirt (80's or 90's deadstock) that I altered by adding 1930's buttons and reshaping the collar to give it spearpoints.
Makes for a nice summer leisure shirt.
Mid-1930s German three-piece suit. Masterful tailor-work.
High quality navy-blue wool cloth with a soft touch. Not stiff or scratchy.
Very good condition.
Double-breasted waistcoat.
Size is about a 40 Short.
PM me if interested!
If one insists on utilizing a tuxedo (a formal garment to be worn with a definite set of certain ascessoires) as a normal suit with brown shoes and a colorful patterned bowtie, "rules" of any sort are out of the window.
That being said: the "blue" of the tuxedo is midgnight-blue... which...
Thanks Paddy!
Another deadstock find:
Lots of mint German 1930's spearpoint collars in the "Classifieds" for sale.
From 38 cm to 43 cm... have a look.
http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?83140
From a dissolved menswear store:
A great opportunity to get pristine, mint, unused, untouched (you get the idea... ;)) white semi-stiff spearpoint collars.
They come in the original paper cover. Original "Dornbusch" and "Famos" collars, made in Germany ca. 1935-1940.
5 x Sz. 38 cm (15 in)
5...
Robin Lumsden, who writes collectors guides to Third Reich/SS militaria and is a respected authority in collector circles, states this in his book "The Allgemeine - SS". Diebitsch and Heck designed a lot of other stuff for the SS, too.
Which is exactly what your claim is. Now is your "source"...
You can't be serious... :eusa_doh:
The black SS uniform was designed by the SS officers Karl Diebitsch and Walter Heck.
Hugo Boss, a party member, got the first contract to produce the uniforms.
The SS officers and bigwigs of course didn't have to resort to factory produced uniforms, but had...
When will this myth ever die?
Boss didn't design anything.
The uniforms were designed by the respective organizations themselves, and continued German uniform traditions while accounting for contemporary fashion preferences.
Boss was a workwear/sportswear/uniform manufcaturer back then that...
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