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- It bore the national colors and unit insignias, sometimes painted or attached as decals.
Additional Uniform Components
The Tunic and Equipment
The standard soldier's tunic featured a waistcoat-like design with discreet buttons, often replaced by substitutes like wood or ebonite during wartime shortages by 1917. Soldiers wore a Bavarian-style wool coat and carried various insignia representing their regiment, including distinctive shoulder straps.
Headgear
The Feldmütze — a field cap without a visor — became the standard headgear for troops, usually in gray or field gray, with distinctions in colored bands and piping indicating specific branches:
Red for infantry,
Gray for light infantry,
Black for artillery and combat engineers.