Hungary Early Post War Hungarian Trousers

[Gordon Craig]

Gents,

One of the hardest parts of a uniform for a collector to acquire are the pants to go with the tunic. Particularly ones with similar wear colour etc. While Charles concentrated on tunics this past show I concentrated on trousers. The first pair up are the heavy winter padded trousers. These pants are very thick and bound to keep you warm but would certainly restrict your movements once you added the jacket. They have two front slash pockets and a watch pocket on the right side. There are no rear pockets. The pants are tapered to fit inside the boots and there is a slit at the bottom to help get the pants on. This slit is not buttoned but is tied closed by two straps, which wrap around the leg, that are sewn into the outside leg seam. If anyone has a tunic to go with these panst please pm me.

Regards,

Gordon

[Gordon Craig]

The rear of the padded trousers.

[Gordon Craig]

Here is the markings in these trousers. A little blurry but hard to hold a digital camera still with one hand. The pants are dated 1953.

[Gordon Craig]

The next set of pants are the wool type breeches worn with the everyday service uniform. The interesting thing about hese pants is that they are virtually identical to those worn during WWII. The buttons are made of the same bakelite material. They have two slash front pockets, a watch pocket and one rear pocket on the right side. The watch pocket and the rear pocket are closed by a button and a tab.

Regards,

Gordon

[Gordon Craig]

The rear of the pants.

[Gordon Craig]

The only marking in the breeches are on the underside of the rear pocket. One stamp is an inspectors stamp and all that can be made out is the number 9 in the centre and the letters M E O at the bottom of the stamp. The other stamp is the standar marking for this period with two leters in the upper section a lower section divided into two with a legible date of 1952 in the right hand side of the rectangular marking.