Bulgarian People's Army Cold War Era Heavy Cotton Olive Green Cossack Shirt / Tunic

Genuine Bulgarian People's Army Heavy Cotton OG Cossack Shirt

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At a glance - 

• Heavy Cotton Material
• 2 Chest Button Pockets
• Shoulder Epaulettes / Rank Slides
• 2 External Embossed Belt Hooks
• Cossack Style Button Shirt
• Cold War / Eastern Bloc / Warsaw Pact Kit
• Internal Basic Drawstring Waist
• Embossed Star Buttons
• Hook & Eye Collar
• 3/4 Length 3 Button Front
• Combat / Field Shirt
• G.I. / General Issue
• Choice of Solid Olive Green or Vibrant Olive Green Colour

• Vintage Militaria / Cold War Issue / Mostly 1980's & 1990's Dates
• Genuine Bulgarian People's Army /Balgarska Narodna Armiya Surplus

Grades - 

• Grade 1 - Fantastic condition surplus, previously issued with light use. No holes or repairs. Buttons may have slight tarnishing, that's about it!

Any questions please feel free to ask!

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Vintage and iconic military surplus that saw use for a couple decades back in the Cold War. They're heavy duty and designed to be a top layer in the summer months, and offer some good flexibility.

These shirts have some lovely little features for being a standard issue shirt! One touch are the various buttons embossed with a great big star, very apparently communist kit from the get go. Another feature would be the belt hooks to the side, just to keep everything in place. And in a rather unusual design, it's a pullover, Cossack style shirt rather than a fully buttoned front.

What's also wonderful about this shirt is that in the summer months, it actually doubled up as the Bulgarian People's Army dress shirt, or well, jacket! There was of course a more formal suit jacket that was worn for ceremonial events, but this was the standard battle dress and in some cases, parade dress!

They come in solid olive green colours, one a more recognizable shade and another that's more akin to the Swedish army's green hues. This is most probably due to varying quantities of dye, tweaked over the different decades they were manufactured.

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