MILITARIA PLUS (Workware,Cabourn,Kapital,etc)

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   If I can make a rather late addition to this thread (we're talking about old things anyway), there have been all sorts of issue garments that saw relatively little use, or rather, were not produced in large quantities. 
One such item was the artic version of the so-called M41 field jacket. I've only examined one example, and that was a few years ago. It was fashioned, if that's the word, exactly like the regular field jacket but was longer by four or five inches and I think had a heavier liner. It might have been made of a heavier material but I'm not sure. There were also some heavier parkas introduced during the war that sometimes even show up in old movies. One was sheepskin lined, the other had a removable pile liner. They were both styled "Overcoat, Parka Type."

There were mackinaws that remained in service for a few years after the war. There were variations. There was a "jacket, mountain," that had a built-in hood but apparently no liner. There was a pull-over ski parka, too. There was the parachute jumper coat, probably better known than most other jackets or coats. It doesn't seem to have remained on issue through the end of the war, though. There was also a tanker jacket, called the winter combat jacket. 

Probably the least known of army issue uniforms were the Navy-style dungaree "jumper" and trousers, intended for issue to aviation crash crews and mine planters. For those who could get them, usually higher ranking officers, Army Air Corps uniform items seem to have been popular. 