Soviet Telogreika (Ватник) 1915
German engineers at the end of the 19th century managed to create a technology for the production of cotton wool in industrial volumes. Initially, such material was used only in medicine, but later cotton wool began to be widely used in clothing factories. The workers used cotton wool as insulation in the production of outerwear. Russian soldiers fully appreciated wadded jackets for the first time during the conflict in Manchuria in 1904. 10 years later, immediately after the outbreak of the First World War, the production of quilted jackets increased significantly, but as a full-fledged uniform of the tsarist army (wadded jacket and trousers), quilted jackets became only in 1915.
The Russian military department adopted a regulated sample of a padded jacket for soldiers only in 1915. The cropped robe has proven to be very useful for trench life. At the same time, the first earflaps appeared in everyday life. They called them "Finnish hat". It was the Finns who came up with this model.
SOVIET ERA OF VATNIKS
After the overthrow of the tsar and the coming to power of the Bolsheviks, the production of quilted jackets dropped somewhat, and only a few years before the start of the Great Patriotic War, the Soviet leadership began to dress the military and civilians in this type of clothing. The red army especially liked the new uniforms. Wadded jackets and trousers did not restrict movement at all, so it was convenient to go into a bayonet attack and move on skis in them.
During the Great Patriotic War, workers in factories in the rear, Soviet citizens supplied the front with more than 38 million quilted jackets, as well as 5 million sheepskin coats, which, as a rule, were intended for junior and middle command personnel, so the quilted jacket became irreplaceable clothing for ordinary privates and sergeants. The command recommended that the soldiers wear quilted jackets under their overcoat during severe cold weather in order to exclude the possibility of frostbite. Despite this, the fighters often took off their overcoat, restricting their movements, and went into reconnaissance and attack in the same quilted jackets.
Russian army wadded clothing
MODERNIZATION OF JACKETS IN THE SOVIET ARMY
For the first time in the Soviet army, quilted jackets were used without buttons, with ties. In the early 30s of the 20th century, a quilted jacket was called a quilted jacket, which was fastened along the side with 4 buttons. On samples of those years, there were patch pockets on the side, and the stitches were at a distance of 6 centimeters from each other. A buckle belt was usually used as a fastener at the waist. The quilted jacket had a 3 cm soft collar, which was attached to 1 button.
In 1941, the Soviet army received quilted jackets of a new design, differing from the 1932 model, primarily in thickness. Quilted jackets were intended for the rank and file, while officers were supposed to wear an overcoat. After the end of the Great Patriotic War, wadded jackets were supplied both to the Soviet army and to the branches of the national economy (collective farms, factories).
There are actually 3 obvious differences:
1) instead of a fastener, strings;
2) the front is not quilted;
4) welt pockets. The backrest is already one-to-one as in the BOB. But nevertheless, however, there are patterns quilted on the front, with patch pockets and with buttons, such as were introduced only in 30.The rest of the differences relate to dimensions, quilted jackets of 1915 were procured in only 3 sizes, in contrast to arr 1941 which were harvested in 6 sizes-heights. I in no way insist on 100% admissibility of Soviet padded jackets for WWI and GVR, but I note that very similar samples were encountered during the period under review.
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