Description
Physical description
Jacket
Open-collared single-breasted four-pocket jacket made of olive-brown material with white metal stipple-pattern buttons. To the shoulders are attached a matching pair epaulettes made of dark brown braid decorated with small silver coloured 'V's on an orange/yellow backing. The right collar patch features a '2/55' fraction worked in white thread on an orange/yellow patch that is bordered with white cord, and the left features a white metal rank star central, with twin vertical rank bars to the forward edge worked in white and khaki thread. This left patch is worked in identical style and colouring to the right.
The breast pockets are pleated with scalloped flaps, whilst the skirt pockets are large bellows type with straight flaps.
A NSDAP armband is attached to the left sleeve.
Label
The four-pocket jacket was first adopted by the SA in 1932 when the government urged that the SA should adopt a more respectable uniform. Shoulder straps and collar patches were added in 1933 and these conformed to the facing colour used on the kepi to indicate the administrative district to whom the member belonged. In 1939 when the SA structure was modified, epaulettes were redesigned (those for SA-Mann to SA-Obertruppfuhrer as shown on this jacket) with collar patches edged in one of two colours to differentiate between Gruppen; for example an orange/yellow edged in yellow would define a unit from Elbe, whilst in white (as here) would be from Neckar.
The distinctive right hand collar patch with its designation expressed as a fraction, '2/55' means that this member served in Sturm 2 of Standarte 55 (2nd Company of 55th Regiment, Neckar region).
History note
The four-pocket jacket was first adopted by the SA in 1932 when the government urged that the SA should adopt a more respectable uniform. Shoulder straps and collar patches were added in 1933 and these conformed to the facing colour used on the kepi to indicate the administrative district to whom the member belonged. In 1939 when the SA structure was modified, epaulettes were redesigned (those for SA-Mann to SA-Obertruppfuhrer as shown on this jacket) with collar patches edged in one of two colours to differentiate between Gruppen; for example an orange/yellow edged in yellow would define a unit from Elbe, whilst in white (as here) would be from Neckar.
The distinctive right hand collar patch with its designation expressed as a fraction, '2/55' means that this member served in Sturm 2 of Standarte 55 (2nd Company of 55th Regiment, Neckar region).