Tarnjacke / Camo smock - pockets

[Urwaldjaeger]

Was there ever an early or mid early model of the SS camouflage smock
without any pockets or openings. I have spotted a repro item from germany
missing that. Is this a poor fake or accurate to an origin?

[grenmartens]

As far as I'm concerned there are only 3 "Styling" variations of the Waffen-SS camo smock.

The earliest pattern to be commonly issued, often referred to as the M-38 was designed to be worn 'over' the combat equipment and had two vertical slits at the front for access, it also had an elasticized neck, a small square placket at the bottom of the neck closure was used to reinforce the base, and was characteristic of the M-38 smock.

A gradual shift away from the tautness of the elastic used in the neck after 1939 resulted in the production of smocks without elasticized necks by the end of 1940 - the M-40 pattern.

In 1942, modifications to the M-40 pattern saw pockets added to the front, replacing the vents, and loops for foliage attached to the shoulder area - the M-42

Aside from the many camo variations and the use of HBT during 1943, due to a shortage in cotton duck material, I have never seen any evidence of any other pattern.

[stefan]

This example looks to be a type 2 smock and there are no known examples of type 2 in palm pattern

also all the books say the type 1 had the slits in the body originally to access the ammo pouches

and type 2 early had straight skirt pockets and latter sloped skirt pockets

shame as its a nice print but just wrong

[Urwaldjaeger]

Thank's all for good inputs.
I agree about the good print and it looks as this
"schlupfjacke" could be a home "field" made bastard.

[hitlerjugend]

if you look carefully on the first picture you can see that this is infact the type 1 palm smock and the slits are on the far left and right of the smock
they are hard to make out at first but they are there
i have on of these for sale if you want one.
p.m me like new
zac

[Franz repper]

If you look hard you could see that the jacket is mounted on two diffrent uniform jackets