WW2 German Issue Grey Rayon M43 Shirt

A very heavily worn & most likely 'lived in' example of the increasingly harder to find German shirt of the M43 model with two chest pockets & pressed card buttons.
Upon examination of this wonderfully original combat piece it can soon be concluded that this shirt would serve as an ideal undergarment on a combat soldier mannequin display . Both front pockets remain intact & both with their originally sewn pressed card fastening buttons still in place. There is one pressed card button still in place to front half fly this also being originally sewn. It is interesting to note that both arms have been professionally shortened somewhat with a hem sewn in at their edge. Looking at this personalisation I am of the opinion that it is period done by the soldier perhaps for short sleeve wear or even when worn as a POW however , of course, impossible to know for certain. There are three very old patch repairs to the front of the shirt , two on the front upper chest in the same correct wartime rayon shirt material & the third lower down from a similar more wool based thick shirt type material perhaps of civilian purchase. There is one large patch repair to the rear again in the same issue shirt rayon material so this may have been an end of war repair or , again , POW applied. The inside collar has had a strip of HBT material applied . All of the patch repairs are very old & were applied to allow prolonged wear of this garment.
Totally original , German combat item of clothing !

Code: 9364