A.Weiss wrote:
(right)comparison of original wartime italian camouflage panzer coverall (left) with modief post-war italian coverall (right). by a dealer,
who added blue-grey glass german buttons and replaced the cloth epaulettes with german-style epaulette attchachment loops and pebble finish buttons. the large cargo pockets on the legs. and the brighter sage green shade tending almost towards a drab turquoise, are also characteristic of post-war italian camouflage italian suits.
The camo suit on the left is actually a San Marco Marine overall, circa 1960 -70. It is a totally different pattern to the classic Telo tenda. Look at the relation of the tan segments to the brown. They are seperate, were as in classic telo tenda pattern, the tan sections are nominally semi surrounded by the brown. The suti on the right is WW2 colouration. I have seen very tan patches on original telo tenda's (Not 'Zelts' -Lets use the apporopriate nomincluture when in the Italian section, if you please gentlemen ). The big give away is in the 'twig'element of the pattern. I will post up some pictures later once i'm home from work to explain all.
I've checked out Caens site.
Bravo Caen. Excellent work. I hope my imput will be of help to you.
Neil