Hungarian Sinai peace keeping shirt

Nice deployment piece! Glad to see you posting some of your stuff!

Nice stuff Steve! Note this is the early (1999-2000) version of the 4 colour tropical uniform (still in the same cut as the "Hurrikan" uniform), replaced very soon by the M2000 tropical/summer uniform (in the cut of the M90 uniform). The main difference this early tropical uniform was issued only for peacekeepers, while the M2000 became a general issue summer uniform.

You are right, the french, the dutch etc. really have such shirts. But we, hungarians are different :-) Instead of such practical items we better change full uniforms ... To this shirt a matching trousers also exist, in the same cut as the "Hurrikan" trousers, so withouth cargo pockets and with back (patch) pockets. While the M2000 tropical/summer trousers are made with cargo pockets and withouth back pockets, cut like the M90 trousers.

Otherwise did you note your shirt belonged to a female soldier originally? The ending letters on the name tape "-né" means Mrs. in hungarian. So, she called Mrs. Christmas (as Christmas is Karácsony in hungarian). And her rank was WO3.

oh steve, i didn't know you were into woman's camouflage uniforms haahahah

great piece!

tamas, as usual thanks a lot for your expertise

cheers

do you wear it?

Well, it is female because of the name tape only. Otherwise there is no difference between male and female combat uniform - HDF combat suits are "unisex" ...

I'm sorry that's incorrect Steve! The black skirt is part of the parade/mess dress female uniform. However a camouflage skirt was never issued to the M90 uniform, but if you collect a M65 female combat uniform, that was produced with female trousers + skirt (YES! short OG "combat" skirt ... don't ask what was the purpose of that garment except a possible morale boosting when issued for pretty young ladies).

I could maybe find a set for you ... but the matching size can cause problems if you wanted to wear it :-)

The M65 female combat uniform was very different from the male model: different cap (beret), shirt with reversed button-line, side-zippered female pants, skirts, female combat boots.

Here you can see a photo:

http://www.nephadsereg.hu/egyenruha-3.jpg