No, You Don't Need New Glasses 01

Uniform collectors aren't paying ANY attention to the ribbon bar being worn by this non-regulation career Feldwebel/Offizierstellvertreter at the Infanterie Gesch?tz Replacement Battalion in Sonthofen, Bavaria circa 1917/18.

It is the expensive South German style, with fancy doubled ribbons using twice as much material as the flat Prussian model. See the following closeup scan.