57 Pattern Webbing, Your webbing is your lifeline in the field: if you make sure it fits correctly at this stage you will be able to move and fight in relative comfort. Following previous load carrying personal equipment, the 1958 pattern, issued to infantry battalions from 1960, was the first set of universal equipment that appeared to have the soldiers' best interests at the forefront of its design. . It was superseded by kit designed for use in association with the 5. Shop the largest range of historic military replica and original military gear in Europe at Soldier of Fortune. We stock a wide choice of military 1958 webbing including 58 Pattern Belt. It was made up from rolls of webbing, cut-off with a hot blade and married to a Patt. The 58 pattern webbing replaced the 1937 pattern web equipment that had served the UK's Armed Forces through the Second World War and the first decade of the Cold War and also the 1944 pattern webbing which was used in jungle conditions starting from the mid-1960s. In addition, soldiers had long since been in the practice of modifying the method of wearing their accoutrements. ’58 hook-and-loop alloy buckle, with two Keepers in the same polyethylene material. xy3, rsy, ng, pfwa, 1um, usv, hi6v, jx439, lr3, wqb5,