SIZE CHART - ARVN UNIFORMS
(inches)
Size | Shoulder | Shirt Length | Sleeve | Pants Waist | Pants Length | Leg |
1 | 17,5 | 28 | 23 | 29 | 38,6 | 6.7 |
3 | 18,1 | 28,7 | 23,2 | 32 | 40,1 | 7.1 |
5 | 19 | 29,5 | 23,6 | 34 | 41 | 7.8 |
7 | 19,7 | 29,9 | 24 | 37 | 41,7 | 8.6 |
9 | 20.4 | 30.7 | 24.4 | 39 | 43.3 | 9.4 |
Note:
French tenue leopard lizard pattern
of the 1950s. French camouflage uniforms were in fact worn by Vietnamese troops
during the First Indochina War. The Vietnamese referred to these different
designs as Sọc Răn (striped uniform). Many different styles of tiger pattern
emerged between 1964 and 1975 and have been exhaustively documented by author
Richard D. Johnson in his excellent book Tiger Patterns. Manufacture
of the individual patterns and textiles extended to factories in various parts
of Asia, including some locally made in South Vietnam, Japan, Thailand, the
Republic of Korea, and Taiwan. Presented here are a handful of samples from
original garments that were produced during this time period.
The
very first tiger stripe design
was a locally-made copy of the French lizard pattern
produced for the Vietnamese Marine Corps (Thữy Quân Lục-Chiến). The
pattern incorporates bold black stripes over lesser brownish-drab stripes &
light green trace elements, with an olive green base color. Production of this
design ended in 1967, although units continued to wear the pattern until 1970.
Illustrated below are the original pattern (far left), followed by two variants
designated “sparse” and “dense.” Consensus suggests both textiles and uniforms
were all produced in South Vietnam, but that 2nd pattern uniforms may also have
been produced in the Republic of Korea