"French Legions and vielles Bandes; Stylish or Dated?" Topic

In general does anyone who has read a lot about them get the impression that they were generally well equipped and up to date in terms of clothes/equipment or somewhat "impoverished" and old fashioned?

I dont suppose there is any indication of uniforms for these units?

Most likely not uniformed, but no reason the wouldn't be dressed similarly to other soldiers of the time. Not lanksnechts I wouldn't think, but professional(ish) soldiers so paid and able to buy reasonable clothing I would have thought.

Légion du Dauphiné Provence Lyonnais & Auvergne

uniformed clothing given by the Parliament of Dauphiné to its own soldiers in 1536 :

These must be fitted with shoes, stockings, one white and the other quartered white, purple and black, with a doublet of black fustian and a red ear cap, a white feather, in addition to the sword for all and the pike or the arquebuse.
In a time where the uniform does not exist, this request imposes a specific form to create an identity within the royal army but also vis-à-vis the society as a whole as at the same time other troops are not called by the name of their chief but by the color of their headdresses like the band of the grey caps for Jacques d'Anglure's Champagne legionaries and Monsieur de Villeneuve's Provençal band of greens bonnets

Les Légionnaires du Dauphiné 1534-1559
Julien Guinand
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That image has nothing to do with the Légion du Dauphiné, it is a print of a landsknecht "Büchsenmayster" by Hans Sebald Beham printed as part of a series published by Nicolaus Meldemann (note the "NM") about 1530.

But the text doesn't claim that at all, it is an attempt to represent the appearance of the Legionaries of the Dauphiné as given by their Parliament in 1536 unfortunately with black and white shades