English: Colour plate showing uniforms and insignia of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the stormtroopers and original paramilitary wing of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) from 1920/21 until the fall of Nazi Germany in 1945:

• Ceremonial Dress (full dress uniform/parade uniform)
  • Kepi (Schaftmütze) with brown leather chin strap, buttons and metal eagle. The colour on the Kepi displayed which Gruppen (division) the wearer belonged to.
  • Brown shirt with shoulder strap on right shoulder and brown necktie
  • Right collar patch/tab (Kragenspiegel) contains the number and type of unit, left collar patch contain the rank insignias (see also SA collar tab and shoulder board identification guide by GermanDaggers.com)
  • Nazi Party swastika armband/brassard (Kampfbinde, Hakenkreuzarmbinde)
  • Nazi Party membership badge; World War I Iron Cross (Eisernes Kreuz); The Honour Cross of the World War 1914/1918 (Hindenburg Cross, Das Ehrenkreuz des Weltkriegs 1914/1918); Nazi Party Long Service Award (Dienstauszeichnung der NSDAP); and SA Sports Badge (SA-Sportabzeichen)
  • Belt with double claw open buckle and crossbelt
  • SA dagger (see dagger guide on Germandaggers.com** Calf-length breeches (riding pants with extra width in the thigh area (Breecheshosen, Reit- bzw. Stiefelhosen)
  • Black high jackboots (Schaftstiefeln):etc.

• Undress uniform
  • Kepi
  • Tunic (Waffenrock): Open lapel cut, single-breasted service jacket, in brown textile, with front closure, two side pockets, two box-pleated patch breast pockets with stylised (scalloped) button-down flaps, and turned up cuffs
  • Collar patches/tabs (Kragenspiegel) with SA rank insignia
  • Nazi Party swastika armband/brassard (Hakenkreuzarmbinde)
  • Nazi Party membership badge and SA Sports Badge
  • Belt with double claw open buckle and crossbelt
  • SA-dagger
  • Riding trousers and high jackboots

etc.

The uniform of an SA member was principally a brown shirt, Swastika armband and a tan Kepi cap. The uniform was chosen due to its prevalence after a store of tropical colonial uniforms were discovered in Austria.

Lighter, retouched version of cropped page copied from Organisationsbuch der NSDAP by Reichsorganisationsleiter Robert Ley (1890 – 1945) published 1943 ("Herausgeber: Robert Ley"; "7 Auflage: 301-400 Tausend"). Publisher : Zentralverlag der NSDAP, Franz Eher Nachf., München. 856 pages. 596 (ie 750) p: ill, maps, ports, plates; 22 cm; German language. Letters in Fraktur style typefaces.