Question about Opex Inapte Popper on a French Jacket ??????

Hi Guys.

I have recently bought a French Desert patterned Jacket, on the collar there is a Popper, with Opex Inapte or Inapte Opex, on the Popper, I have carried out a search and came with some various answers to this e.g. infit for Military service ???


Please help me understand this , I am totally confused.

If I get a chance tomorrow, I will post a picture of the Popper in question.

Many thanks for any future help with this

Here is the Popper in question which is on the left hand side of the collar Hopefully this may help to ID it.I have seen something like this on a French CCE Jacket but still do not understand it's significance.

Gary ,

Until now, I was searching for you and get several responses too.

Well, if you could confirm that this jacket has been slightly used and that is not a brand new jacket.... I will be very pleased to tell you that this jacket was not infit because of material reasons or cut but just because it has been used and had been declassified because of that.
So now, you have to figure out how you gonna to get rid of this popper !

Jean-Yves

JYN wrote:Gary ,

Until now, I was searching for you and get several responses too.

Well, if you could confirm that this jacket has been slightly used and that is not a brand new jacket.... I will be very pleased to tell you that this jacket was not infit because of material reasons or cut but just because it has been used and had been declassified because of that.
So now, you have to figure out how you gonna to get rid of this popper !

Jean-Yves

Jean-Yves, many thanks for looking into this for me, I tried and drew a blank I'm afraid.So I am very grateful for any ideas on this popper.

The jacket in question , is I believe unissued or has had very little use, I know it came from the south of France, as the guy I got it from, regularly buys French Militaria from La Rochelle, and Marseille areas.( I wish I knew his contacts!!)

I suppose I could just carefully drill it out, but I think I will leave it on anyway, as it such an enigma


Thanks again J-Y, your assistance is very much appreciated.

Well, I have seen other uniforms as french "Outremer" uniforms with the same popper. For this other case, it's seems that these overseas uniforms are insecticide treated and it is sure that if if you are issuing an old stock of uniforms to soldiers, they will have less protection against mosquitos. The french Daguet 3 color desert camouflage is an infra red pattern if I am not wrong; so, french army probably considered that a jacket used has probably less efficiency in a desert aerac than a new one. Instead of a stamp, they punched this little popper which is bad for collectors !

[quote="JYN"]Well, I have seen other uniforms as french "Outremer" uniforms with the same popper. For this other case, it's seems that these overseas uniforms are insecticide treated and it is sure that if if you are issuing an old stock of uniforms to soldiers, they will have less protection against mosquitos. The french Daguet 3 color desert camouflage is an infra red pattern if I am not wrong; so, french army probably considered that a jacket used has probably less efficiency in a desert aerac than a new one. Instead of a stamp, they punched this little popper which is bad for collectors ![/quote



Thanks again J-Y for the excellent info!!

And your right the popper is bad for us collectors, once removed it would leave a hole

I will search for a matching pair of GW1 era daguet Trousers, wish me luck..I will need it

Cheers mate, Gary.

See that ... il you look in the ended listing of the seller you will see that you missed a jacket for 1 €. It seems that you have also the popper on the collar.

Ebay reference 170682632237

[quote="JYN"]See that ... il you look in the ended listing of the seller you will see that you missed a jacket for 1 €. It seems that you have also the popper on the collar.

Ebay reference 170682632237


I looked on France ebay this afternoon, and found some cool Daguet stuff, there's a seller who is selling these jackets with the popper on the collar, and they are cheaper than I paid...perhaps this is the way forward for me, with french Kit.

Used words as : treillis, veste camouflée or treillis désert instead of Daguet.... sometimes who knows or there http://parasurplusmilit.free.fr/nosproduits/lesuniformes/index.html don't have any feedbacks about them.

JYN wrote:Used words as : treillis, veste camouflée or treillis désert instead of Daguet.... sometimes who knows or there http://parasurplusmilit.free.fr/nosproduits/lesuniformes/index.html don't have any feedbacks about them.

Many thanks for the link J-Y, looks like they sell some cool French Kit,I will investigate postal charges etc.
And yes, lots of French sellers seem to use Treillis in their discriptions I have noticed ????, I am awaiting some responses on F1 daguet covers..fingers crossed on that.

Thanks again Mate.

Regards Gary