"Mexican Zappadores at the Alamo" Topic

What colour were their trousers? Coats seem to be dark blue but I'm getting three different answers on the trousers. I see light blue, dark blue and grey.

Anyone know which one it was for the Alamo?

Thanks

I have (I think) every Alamo painting guide out there, and I see the same three possibilities. My own collection is painted to keep the five Mexican assault columns visually distinct. White, grey, light blue, and dark blue trousers are all likely to have been used, and I have units of each (two of the whites, evidently the most common.)

Great, thank you very much!

There seems to have been little campaign uniformity in the Mexican army of that time, as far as trousers go, and Santa Anna's army was also probably supplied in a very ad hoc fashion. Some units/companies/individuals probably wore winter regulation trousers in various shades of dark blue, blue grey, or grey; others seem to have worn summer issue white cotton trousers. I would expect the Zapadores, as a regiment in the standing army, to have been better equipped and therefore probably had winter trousers in their stores, so probably would be kitted out in some dark shade. You've pretty much got to pick one at random — even the artists in the books are doing the same.

Trousers also wear out faster than, say, coats. It would be reasonable to have some mixture of pants colors even within a company, based on individual replacements.

I'm almost certain that the 'official' colour was dark blue, same as the coats, with red piping on the sides. Winter dress was white for almost all the regiments in the Mexican army, but was not worn at the Alamo.