Same here C-W. I think there is a technique to carboot bargain hunting that escapes me.

Did they come with the Hessen label in them? I got two tunics, both HBT and both had the Hessen label. The prize was the two pocket utility/fatigue ja...

Locally vat dyed KD was a stop gap before the official JG made it through.

No JG for the Chocos. WPG do a reasonable Aussie pattern shirt now. Still waiting for the trousers. Both later than Kokoda I think, though I may be wr...

I ordered a few bits of German and American insignia from Morigi yesterday lunch time, nothing massive, a few bevo bits for chest and cap and an origi...

It turns out I have a pair of Spearhead '40 ptn trousers to hand. Very long in the leg and very full in the leg, almost like Oxford bags. Colour is ve...

It was all a bit of a lottery it seems. My dear old dad was in the RE post war[just] and he went through the swapping of BD routine to get something t...

Bigger is always better.

Post war they also reverted to using brass. I have a 50 something dated belt with brass fittings. Some repros are reported to have brass plated fittin...

3 more plastic cap badges. That makes 42 of the regimental badges out of 62 and 14 from 16 Corps badges. I doubt I'll ever see the last two corps badg...

Also, too late, ordered it Twit. Why ask if you intend to do it anyway? You have just spent more money on an indifferent product.

Once you add the shipping into the equation you would be better with a beret from

"lace wrapped around the top" ??? You just ladder lace the boots and tie in a bow. Dont wrap the laces around your ankle before you tie. Ext...

Very definite it's a repro. The original covers were made from 5 panels of cloth not the 3 of many repros.