"stocking caps" Topic
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| green beanie | 19 Jan 2019 8:18 a.m. PST |
What do Seven Years War stocking caps look like? I saw some figures listed with them but did not know what they were. |
| Garde de Paris | 19 Jan 2019 9:16 a.m. PST |
French dragoons are frequently illustrated wearing their fatigue cap, a sort of stocking cap. Figure makers provide them as well, as with Freikorp and Old Glory 15's. Allegedly, these were not worn in battle, but in one instance on the heads of their horses (see Funcken) for a review! link Not unlike the early fatigue cap worn by the French in the Napoleonic Wars. GdeP |
| von Schwartz | 19 Jan 2019 8:18 p.m. PST |
Are you referring to the French dragoon bonnet? If so, check Kronoskaf. It was a cloth cap supposed to be worn when foraging or when ordered to by the commander. Apparently they were used quite often. Anyway, you'll get a lot of info from the Kronoskaf site as well as some nice illustrations and color plates. |
| 42flanker | 23 Jan 2019 12:59 p.m. PST |
Wasn't the bonnet de flamme, with turned-up 'bandeau' and hanging 'flamme', piped in facing colours, the regulation headgear for the French dragoon regiments, rather than serving only as bonnet de police? |
| von Schwartz | 23 Jan 2019 7:19 p.m. PST |
42 you are correct, from the various illustrations I have seen it would seem that that particular type of headgear was used more often than the tricorne, it certainly looked more comfortable. |
| 42flanker | 24 Jan 2019 2:54 a.m. PST |
Perhaps the 'bonnet' was favoured originally for the same reasons that (allegedly) grenadiers favoured caps; being less likely to interfere with slinging the musket than the wings of the cocked hat. |
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