"Some random French in AWI painting questions" Topic
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| Winston Smith | 02 Aug 2016 10:18 a.m. PST |
Would French officers or grenadiers wear powdered wigs?
How about normal soldiers?
And what about Lauzun's Legion? What color are the animal skin backpacks? Merci |
| Winston Smith | 02 Aug 2016 10:21 a.m. PST |
Would the bearskin bags of the Royal Deux Ponts grenadiers be blue or yellow? |
| 45thdiv | 02 Aug 2016 10:35 a.m. PST |
Having picked up some Perry French AWI at the end of last year, this topic / questions has me interested as well. I don't recall any powdered wigs on French during the FIW, but thing could have changed. Thanks for the questions and post John. Looking forward to the replies. Matthew |
 StoneMtnMinis  | 02 Aug 2016 11:39 a.m. PST |
From "The Era of The American Revolution" by the Company of Military Historians. French regiments at Savannah, 1779: Officers are shown in powdered wigs, Line infantry and Grenadiers in un-powdered hair. Backpacks are a light brown. French Soissonnais infantry, 1780-83: Officers and Grenadiers in powdered wigs, line infantry unpowdered. Royal Deus-Ponts Regiment: Officers White wigs. Hope this helps
Dave |
| Winston Smith | 02 Aug 2016 12:00 p.m. PST |
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 piper909 | 02 Aug 2016 8:14 p.m. PST |
Once again, the officer fops are hogging all the regiment's powder! |
| piper909 | 02 Aug 2016 8:15 p.m. PST |
Hey, question for reenactors -- what DO you guys use for powdered wigs/queues for this period? And is whatever you do period authentic? |
| 42flanker | 04 Aug 2016 2:45 p.m. PST |
FWIW, if they did powder in America (Savannah? Really?) , for the men at least, I susepct when formal parades required they would simply have worn wear hair combed, greased and powdered. The COMH book, published forty years ago, is quite old and venerable now. It is possible that some of their information is be a little out of date. |
| Supercilius Maximus | 04 Sep 2016 2:25 a.m. PST |
@piper909 – normal baking flour was used in "the real thing" so I would suspect the same would be true today. |
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paints brigs for the British fleet.
