Original Kriegsmarine summer sailor cap .

Original Kriegsmarine summer sailor cap .Excellent conditions, signed 1942

The Kriegsmarine originally used white uniforms and headdress as their tropical 
dress and had two separate brown tropical uniforms, one developed pre-war and 
one during the war. The overseas white beret followed the same pattern as the 
navy blue beret overseas and is believed to have been introduced in mid-1939, 
for use by Junior NCOs and EMs on a restricted basis. The wearing of the 
white beret was abolished by regulations of 2 February 1940, but due to clothing
 shortages the wearing of the white beret was reinstated in 1942. Further 
regulations specified specific times and areas in which the white beret was 
permitted for use.