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Isnt the plume on the russian infantry wrong? I swear it wasnt feathers.
No i meant for the line troops, not the officers like hereBluehawk said:
"... while new hats were authorized, with black plumes of cock feathers. The bow or cockade was of the same ribbon as under the previous reign, with an embroidered gold buttonhole, and with two small silver tassels in the corners, fastened to the ends of a silver cord or length of lace in which, as in the tassels themselves, was intermixed black and orange silk. The hat was prescribed to be 9 5/8 inches tall in front, 10 1/2 inches in back, and the distance from the crown to the corners - 5 1/4 inches (Illus. 1283 and 1284)."
"... there were introduced for generals and field and company-grade officers of Grenadier regiments hats with a buttonhole loop of narrow gold galloon, of the pattern previously used on shoulder straps, and with a tall plume (Illus. 1297-."
kpetschulat said:I think it's also fair to say that many officers wanted their men, and obviously themselves, to look super fancy when in battle. The Prussian Leib-Garde infantry and their huge plumes, I think, are awesome uniforms. I can also imagine that many of these uniforms had a fear factor towards enemies. If you saw a massive Prussian life guard regiment marching toward you, would you cower if they were wearing regular shakos and uniforms? Probably not. Now, if they were marching at you with their massive plumed shakos, and beautiful red, white, and dark blue uniforms, then you'd be pissing your pants. Such uniforms showed the guards and elite regiments, obviously it would also make them larger targets, because I'm sure armies want to get rid of guards first if they're committed to a pitched battle. Napoleon used his Guard regiments in reserve, though (i.e. Battle of Waterloo). So, the French guards hadn't need to worry too much, amiright?
Austupaio said:Did whoever designed these idiotically high plumes ever consider that the soldiers wearing them might need to, I don't know, enter a somewhat short building or go through some underbrush?
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