Army Captain Blue uniform?

[willie777]

I was doing a search for soviet uniforms on ebay china and found the uniform in pics below. According to seller:

This is soviet red army blue uniform. Brand new condition. Shoulder boards, collar tabs, jacket and trousers included. Jacket size 48-4 and pants size 42-2-2.

That was a translation by me from my knowledge of chinese. My question is that is it genuine (apart from the collar tabs)? I have never ever seen a blue uniform before.

[Tretov]

The blue color in the image is most likely the result of misused camera flash.

The uniform is probably unissued.

[willie777]

I think its air force parade tunic with infantry parade collar tabs and artillery collar insignia. Also the boards are parade infantry captain. Can anyone verify this?

[DougD]

Tretov is correct.... and its not air force ( air force would not have the red piped cuffs).

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[willie777]

But air force does have piped cuffs, am i correct?
Well if the flash made red look pinkish shouldnt the flash have made dark blue look light blue?

[Esteban_cool]

yup, Air Force blue is "bluer" than that.

[willie777]

never mind, i blew up the image to 800% and found some purple in the cuffs. I think that means red cuz blue and red equals purple. But that still doesnt explain the tanks on the collar tabs.

The pants also have purple on them.

[Jeffrey Meffert]

The seller put them there.

[ibaya]

yup, Air Force blue is "bluer" than that.

It could be a militsia (police) uniform with army insignia applied.

Yep, the Air Force officer's parade uniform is a dark blue with sky blue piping. The shoulder marks are also edged and piped with the same color sky blue.

[DougD]

I am not sure what the flash would have to do with the cuff piping; the flash would not make red cuff piping into blue piping.

As for the tanks, they are easy to add to any uniform; since its probably a uniform off E, don't trust anything about it.