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  • 08-12-2010 4:53pm
    #1
    creative100
    Closed Accounts Posts: 61 ✭✭


    Hi all,

    Is it possible to purchase DF BDU or other clothing?


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  • #2
    Donny5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,827 ✭✭✭Donny5


    creative100 wrote: »
    Hi all,

    Is it possible to purchase DF BDU or other clothing?

    Nope, you can't buy any uniform or equipment in the Irish DPM pattern. It's copyrighted, and the DoD don't let anyone use it. You can pick up some of the stuff on eBay, but it's all technically stolen and it's all very expensive.


  • #3
    creative100
    Closed Accounts Posts: 61 ✭✭creative100


    Thanks for the reply. I presume it is illegal to sell it also?


  • #4
    Donny5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,827 ✭✭✭Donny5


    creative100 wrote: »
    Thanks for the reply. I presume it is illegal to sell it also?

    In Ireland, yeah. All the stuff is only issued to people; the DoD still owns it, so selling, trading or giving it away is a crime. It's also illegal to wear it or anything that looks like it in Ireland. All the same, you do see a lot of it on building sites.


  • #5
    BigDuffman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,512 ✭✭✭BigDuffman


    Official DPM is not for private sale. You can however find some unofficial copies of "paddyflage" out there. Protac etc.

    The french pattern is a bit lighter but close enough.


  • #6
    SIRREX
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 217 ✭✭SIRREX


    BigDuffman wrote: »
    Official DPM is not for private sale. You can however find some unofficial copies of "paddyflage" out there. Protac etc
    the protac stuff was manufactured with materials that were produced by permission of the DF. I think they sold it to him when he was making stuff for the ARW.


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  • #7
    Donny5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,827 ✭✭✭Donny5


    SIRREX wrote: »
    the protac stuff was manufactured with materials that were produced by permission of the DF. I think they sold it to him when he was making stuff for the ARW.

    All the Protac stuff selling now isn't using the real DPM. You can see the difference when people are wearing his webbing and the like.


  • #8
    SIRREX
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 217 ✭✭SIRREX


    Donny5 wrote: »
    All the Protac stuff selling now isn't using the real DPM. You can see the difference when people are wearing his webbing and the like.

    Haven't been in for a while, he must have run out of the good stuff. What's he using now, the French pattern?


  • #9
    Donny5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,827 ✭✭✭Donny5


    SIRREX wrote: »
    Haven't been in for a while, he must have run out of the good stuff. What's he using now, the French pattern?

    No, it's his own pattern. It's the only stuff you've ever been able to buy from him, as far as I know.


  • #10
    SIRREX
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 217 ✭✭SIRREX


    Donny5 wrote: »
    No, it's his own pattern. It's the only stuff you've ever been able to buy from him, as far as I know.

    No he definitely had the proper stuff in the early days of the DPM


  • #11
    Donny5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,827 ✭✭✭Donny5


    SIRREX wrote: »
    No he definitely had the proper stuff in the early days of the DPM

    If you say so. I never saw any of it, only the commercial copy.


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  • #12
    BigDuffman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,512 ✭✭✭BigDuffman


    Dont remember seeing anything made in Irish DPM for civilian sale bar the DPM Boonies a few years back but they were stamped on the head.


  • #13
    SIRREX
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 217 ✭✭SIRREX


    BigDuffman wrote: »
    Dont remember seeing anything made in Irish DPM for civilian sale bar the DPM Boonies a few years back but they were stamped on the head.

    Saw plenty of it in the early days and a Cpl here in the west still uses a backpack/daysack he got in protac that is in irish dpm


  • #14
    BigDuffman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,512 ✭✭✭BigDuffman


    Again, open to correction here, but those protac backpacks were very similar to Irish DPM but AFAIK were not the actual official pattern same with the webbing. A few of the lads in my coy still use it but it looks a lot darker in my opinion??


  • #15
    concussion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,267 ✭✭✭concussion


    I think the pattern itself is the same but the colours are slightly different. Same with the mapcases and PLCE - it looks slightly different but when it's been dragged through a few bushes, rivers and mudholes it becomes less obvious.


  • #16
    SIRREX
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 217 ✭✭SIRREX


    concussion wrote: »
    I think the pattern itself is the same but the colours are slightly different. Same with the mapcases and PLCE - it looks slightly different but when it's been dragged through a few bushes, rivers and mudholes it becomes less obvious.

    Your right there, but there were several different colour pallets used in the early days of the DPM, the dark one, the colours they seem to have settled on now, and another batch of smocks with a very yellow colour for the light portion


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