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Post by RemovKebab on Jul 7, 2015 18:28:24 GMT -5
I have a new German outfit that, as you know, has a few parteiadlers and such that go with it. Will I encounter any trouble getting these sewn on at a local shop? If so, what did you do? I must add I am not at all skilled enough to do it myself.
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Post by Kashikov on Jul 7, 2015 18:44:35 GMT -5
No family or friends to do it for you? Most uniforms come with patches sewn on. I don't think you'd have any issue...but all my stuff came with patches.
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Post by RemovKebab on Jul 7, 2015 19:01:35 GMT -5
No family or friends to do it for you? Most uniforms come with patches sewn on. I don't think you'd have any issue...but all my stuff came with patches. Yea no one within reaching in my family is good at these things. I'll try a shop. |
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Post by shrikea8 on Jul 7, 2015 20:04:43 GMT -5
Best advice is learn to sew. Or find a comrade who can sew and trade cigarettes or an extra beer.
I don't mean that in a snotty way, I mean that it was a skill soldiers had to pick up. In the field you wouldn't have a convenient shop (OK you might on garrison duty et c.)where you could get a button sewn on, or a rip patched up enough to carry on.
It doesn't matter that the job is less than perfect, it's a valuable skill and just as manly and soldierly as digging a trench.
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Post by dbloge on Jul 7, 2015 20:32:55 GMT -5
I have taken my German uniforms to several different dry cleaners to have the patches sewn on, and have never encountered any problems. I just tell them that it is a costume (which it is).
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Post by RemovKebab on Jul 8, 2015 0:24:28 GMT -5
Best advice is learn to sew. Or find a comrade who can sew and trade cigarettes or an extra beer. I don't mean that in a snotty way, I mean that it was a skill soldiers had to pick up. In the field you wouldn't have a convenient shop (OK you might on garrison duty et c.)where you could get a button sewn on, or a rip patched up enough to carry on. It doesn't matter that the job is less than perfect, it's a valuable skill and just as manly and soldierly as digging a trench. Fair enough. |
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Post by 2ndengrbn on Jul 15, 2015 11:03:34 GMT -5
I found one tailor that had no problem sewing on German patches, when I talked to him I showed him pictures of our reenacting events and he was willing to do any I brought to him. Now I did get a lady at the dry cleaners upset when she saw the Luftwaffe patches on a tunic, but her boss explained we reenact and that too turned out to be no problem. Maybe the best advice is just ask and explain why you want it done
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Post by cco23i on Jul 16, 2015 1:09:29 GMT -5
That's what's really great about our ground crew. We do as the soldiers did in WW2.
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