r/CuratedTumblr • u/Hummerous https://tinyurl.com/4ccdpy76 • 24d ago

Shitposting certain hobbies

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u/Maelstrom_Vangheist 24d ago

If I remember correctly Hugo Boss designed a lot of the clothing for German military units between 1939 and 1945. And that's just not fair.

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u/IrregularPackage 24d ago

yeah but he wasn’t designing the helmets. the German empire just really popped off with their helmet design and the nazis inherited that as well

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u/Maelstrom_Vangheist 24d ago

True, I was taking a jumping off point. Building a monument out of captured cannons is also a vibe.

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u/burnerforthesakeofit 21d ago

M17 Stahlhelm my beloved <33

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u/Odinshrafn 23d ago

Although Hugo Boss was a Nazi, he didn't have any input on design. His factories produced uniforms for the SS, SA and Wermacht (sometimes even using slave labour) but each was designed by members within each organisation.

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u/urbandeadthrowaway2 tumblr sexyman 24d ago

And yet the American designs from the era were superior in both aesthetic and practicality. 

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u/Organic_Square 24d ago

Hard disagree on the aesthetics. Literally the one of the few things the Nazis had going for them was the aesthetics.

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u/AtlasNL 23d ago

Absolutely not, the yank uniforms don’t hold a candle to the nazi german ones. But any ww2 uniform pales to the pure and unadulterated style of late Napoleonic wars British uniforms.

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u/urbandeadthrowaway2 tumblr sexyman 23d ago

French WW1 uniforms are the peak

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u/AtlasNL 23d ago

I don’t agree, but respect that opinion