"Floppy hats" Topic
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 ochoin  | 09 Apr 2019 6:25 p.m. PST |
One of my pals, also industriously painting figures for a Show game in August, asked me about wearing hats with large brims as opposed to various caps and brimless hats for ECW infantry. A fount of knowledge I'm not, so I thought I'd ask here. |
| KeepYourPowderDry | 10 Apr 2019 4:45 a.m. PST |
The most common form of headgear was the knitted cap – be it Monmouth or Montero. Wide brimmed hats were worn, generally by the more pecunious soldier, so officers.
Most of our notions of ECW dress comes from the Victorians who 'fancydressified' everything. Hence everybody in stripey sleeves, big hats and ostrich feathers. Although… maybe the excessive use of ostrich feathers led to the extinction of British ostriches in the seventeenth century. |
| Old Contemptibles | 10 Apr 2019 8:52 a.m. PST |
Luckily they brought some of the birds to North America were they migrated to what is now Kansas and happily live on the open prairie to this day. |
| Old Contemptibles | 10 Apr 2019 8:53 a.m. PST |
Oh give me a home where the Ostriches roam… |
| ochoin | 10 Apr 2019 2:37 p.m. PST |
It is a well known fact that emus, to this day, tend to shy away from women wearing big hats, in case they are in need of plumage. Don't get me started on the Norwegian Blue parrot…… |
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