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British military uniforms went through some fantastic before the

changes and did some wild borrowing before

generals evolved the modern, practical-

BRITISH BATTLE DRESS

light cavalry.

THE interval between the toned by certain formations of with a heavy gold cord and flows and a scarlet plume of prodigious Napoleonic and Crimean During the course of the Revolu- size, Wars brought forth the tionary and Napoleonic wars, in It is not surprising to learn that volving as they did vast oreop of the regiment was forced at that most magnificent, though Eastern Europe hitherte almost total- time to abandon any form of drill admittedly the least practi- ly unknown to the generals of the with the sabre as, first, the sleeves cal, examples of military Polish units were soon appreciated always split,

the skull and value of these of their tunics were no tight they

and costume which the world hasara wis embodied in the Grande

they in Accord, whole regiment of Polish variably sliced off their plumes, lancers wDS

When George IV dled and Wax so far seen,

Armee, where a French lancer re- succeeded

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his brother there was Although this great re- and equipped on identical lines. The matters. Willam IV had served in giment was shortly afterwards ratsud an alteration of policy in sartorial naissance was continent- most remarkable item of their unis, the Navy and had no interest at all wide it was in England that was the cap; a high, peaked in the niceties of military costume. with a square Crown. his His only activity in these matters it may, without any undue was worn in a modified form by all was confined to a valu effort to re- boasting, be considered to the last war and is still retained to.

strict moustaches, which had

attained n great vogue, to have produced its finest day by all Polish regiments.

Hussar regiments, of their ponder- manifestations.

Household cavalry of

affair

lancer regiments in every army until

hey

cently

to relieving the

but

CRIMEA

1 Officer

in Undress

However, it was not so much the shape and cut of the actual uniforms ous bearskins and generally to cut- This was in a large measure able but rather the number and couragement of extravagance,

which made this period so remark- ting down expenditure by the dis- due to the talents and inde- richness of the trappings with which However, generally speaking, no fatigable energy of one man;

were embellished. Mosi of great change took place until the

and the that too frequently despised these were purely functional In outbreak of the Crimean War.

uniforms which they figure, His Majesty King George Prigin but had by now lost all con-

lost no time in procuring did IV. That monarch was accus- they were designed to serve.

nection with the original purposes The well-meant efforts of the little to counteract the impres tomed to devote his leisure

Prince Consort to encourago a sion. On every shoulder sprouted en- hours, and they were many, to ormous epaulettes, cach manly breast more rational form of military

As France was the leading military a number of hobbies all of them was criss-crossed by a tangle of clothing were confined to the Power it was natural that she should expensive and few of them aiguillettes and well out of rench in substitution of the present form provide the models in these matters, the middle of the back there reposed of helmet with a spike and plume the Second Empire were themselves unfortunately the uniforms of innocent, among which his pas- an ornamental cartridge pouch for sion for designing military uni- heavily emblazoned with badges and which William IV had supplied opera and by the time that they had the crested model with not untouched by the spirit of comte forms was less open to criticism cyphers. than most.

The

amount of gold lace employed the Life Guards and the inven- been adopted to suit the require While el a young man, he had for the greater glory of the commis- tion of a hideous form of shako ments and sporting tastes

of the peak fore and aft. bern responsible for the introduction stoned ranks during these years must with

middle-classes the English of the full-dress hussar uniform to computation: gold cords attached the to which our troops marched off in coola

have been beyond the reach of ail

result verged on the grotesque. A That lamentable conflict, however, ver the parade grounds of this country;

low very

kept or

ornamented shako to the tunic, gold tassels and reasonably sane his originality

worn at Waterloo, was productive of pantaloons, as worn in the Frenc and powers of invention were con-

Army by the necessary, with pestop trousers and gler

Voltigeure alternatod a great many highly suntly

thwarted by the innate

though from the picturesque stand-

glengarrys conservation of that elderly monatch.

as the most popular items of

of attire. point regrettable, changes.

During the latter half of Victoria's The first of these was the the re- reign few changes of any importance placement of the old cutaway, occurred until the outbreak of the swallow-tailed coat, worn by all Boer War. The only visible effect units save the Hussara and Horse of the defeat of France in 1870 and Artillery, by the tunic which reigned the consequent emergence of Prussia supreme in one form or another until

as Military Power No. 1 was the the Introduction of battle-dresa.

adoption of a hideous spiked helmet for most infantry regiments except the Guarda.

dashing

but while his father was still alive twisted and hung from the sword. much the same costume as they had won plumes and exceedingly

But as soon as he was in a position to exercise supreme power the bar- rack squares of England blossomed like Alpine meadows in springtime.

Arst and mast noticeable

The

change was caused by the introduc- tion of various foreign fashions which had first attracted British military attention during the occupation of Paris.

Of these the new Infantry shako Was the most immediately noticeable.

Hitherto, almost alone among the armics of Europe, the British had retained the old cylindrical shape with the plame at the side and a high plate in front. This was now re- placed by a model on French lines, considerably wider at the top than nt the bottom and with the plume

in

Another foreign fashion which

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now

that

with

onary force left the shores of Eng- land not decased in scarlet.

As a result, khaid became the standard service dress for all units In the British army.

From now on the only changes would be of detail and cut.

Epaulettes were abolished and are ow worn only by the Gentlemen- at arms and naval officers in full But with the Boer war an entirely dreas, But most important of all

new epoch as regards military uni was the idea which now made itself

forms began. Considerable experi- felt for the first time that it was ence in the use of protective colour- perhaps advisable differentiate be

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ing had been obtained in the Indian tween the parade-ground and the battlefield and to dress the troops the first time a really large expedi

wars and in the Sudan, and now for accordingly. At almost the same time far away in India the brilliant idea of

of protective colouring had occurred to certain more intelligent gent омести

and khaki was

was evolved. it would not be seen in Europe for enjoyed a widespread though short bilt, gold braid worked into every

another half-century. popularity in smart circles, clock conceivable form of frogging and

Probably the most important event well as military, were 'Cossock

To-day all units are clad alike in in military life in trousers, exaggeratedly baggy gar- rabesque almost hid, so thick was England between the Crimean and possessed of overy practical advan-

Occurtly

a costume which, although doubtles ments very full from hip to ankle it, the colour of the cloth beneath.

Boer Wars was the Volunteer move- and strapped under the boots.

ment of the sixties. Once again age a belief that its wearer are all

tage, unfortunately tends to encour As a final example of the France had become, or so everyone At the samo time an entirely tailors went in their efforts to Power in Europe. Under the domina. However, behind the lines & length to which the military supposed, the mast powerful military garage mechanics off for a day's ski-

ing. new cavalryman now made his attain the utmost degree of im: seized the country which had as its that King George IV in Trafalgar remnant 01 vanished glory still re tion of this illusion a sudden panie mains and one may perhaps imagine first appearance in the ranks of pressiveness, let us for a mo- only the British Army, borrowed, ment consider the uniform of erection of a large number of rather his

two permanent results the

the Square, had he not so rudely turned like the Hussar some years pre- the Horso Guards during the unconvincing-looking forts on the back on Whitehall, might not viously, from the Continent com- reign of George IV.

displeased #t the plete with all his original trap-

South Coast, and the formation of altogether be Tight blue trousers ornamented innumerable units of enthusiastle are of that celebrated thorough

fare any day at luncheon time when pings--the Lancer.

with a broad gold stripe, a cuirmas amateur ridemen-from whom even there emerges from the War Ofice, With the disappearance of the similar to that worn to-day, immense tually the Territorial Army was to the Admiralty, the Air Ministry and medieval knight, the lance as a gold cpaulottes, a gold shoulder-helt evolve,

even some other ministries not cavalry

·wespon had practically attached to a cartridge pouch of the

specifically military in character, so vanished from European battlefields same material, the whole crowned At the time the volunteers brave an array of red tabs, bran save in Poland where it was never by an enormous bearskin enlivened were regarded as figures of fun hats and Guards' moustaches.

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