Cloth 1939 EKIs.

[ChrisKelly]

I see these periodically, and they sell for exorbitant prices.  Are they genuine?  These images are from around the internet, and the third image shows one under "blacklight" [the "since-it-doesn't-glow-it's-authentic" test].

[VtwinVince]

Hard to say, but they were worn in period. I have a photo of a Luftwaffe ace wearing one, I'll have to look for it.

[ChrisKelly]

I was thinking...  I've not seen any photographic evidence of these in wear, but there may very well be pictures out there somewhere...

[VtwinVince]

Here is that picture of my old friend Heinz Altendorf, CO of 7. JG53. I asked him what happened to this jacket, and he was wearing it when he was shot down over the desert late in 1941 and wounded. The medics who treated him cut it to pieces.