8.Kompagnie,
Infanterie - Regiment Nr. 459

3. STANDARDS FOR REQUIRED UNIFORM ITEMS:

II. DIENSTMÜTZE (Visored Field Cap)

A late war Dienstmütze

8. Visored Field Caps may optionally display chinstraps. These will match the visor color, and be held to the cap with 2 small, smooth buttons in a color matching the shade of straps/visor. Chinstraps must be of two-piece construction and may be joined via a buckle or "press snap" arrangement.

9. Unteroffiziere and Sergeanten can wear the smaller (ca.75 in.) lacquered state and Reich cockades on visored field caps. These are positioned as in above and are affixed via pins or wire on the reverse.

AUTHENTICITY TIP:

On original enlisted Feldmützen, a small piece of felt or wool in the color of the cockade center (i.e., black for the Prussian; red for the National) was placed behind the holes and the cockade was sewn on through this piece of cloth.

In coloring the Reichs cockade, use Testor's "orange" model paint on the center.

These two soldiers on the Eastern Front are wearing both wearing a 1915 Bluse & Dienstmützen.

Soldiers from the Western Front on leave and they are wearing their Dienstmützen.

These brothers home on leave are also wearing both styles of field caps. All three men are wearing 1915 Blusen. The two men on the right has Shoulder Straps attached to their tunics.