Hello! Do you like my hat?

... Don't we have medals, with feathers, for this level of genius?

Probably not, but we have this instead (found on pinterest):

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They marched off to war with banners flying, brass bands, frock coats, shining shoulder scales, and tall, stiff, Hardee hats, but it ended it with simple sack coats and shapeless slouch hats in the muddy trenches of Petersburg.
 
This is a fabulous thread with fabulous "covers". We need to bring some of these back to today's military. ISIS would be confused and afraid. I do think going through these posts, that this book comes in handy...

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Although they do not wear feathers, one would have to work hard to beat Sikh headwear.
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Convertibles are probably not practical for Sikhs. Also motorcycles and jet skies would seem to pose problems as well.
 
37 posts and no 39th NY? I'm disappointed.

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This thread has just the right level of eccentricity I love in Victorian uniforms.

Needs more silly marches, tho. I wonder what Siegel's Corp would have looked like if caught on a film plate.
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<- Not Siegel's Corps, just another Imperial German grunt pounding the parade square, circa 1914.
 
A few more pinterest finds.

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Cpt. Cornelius C. Widdis, 150th PA Infantry, as bucktail example with a fashionable model stance.

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No party without the nurses of the Sanitary Commission.

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A couple of firemen.


And just to show that even silly hats could be progress - we have a not too comfortable iron hat from the English CW.

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A few more pinterest finds.

b8614ddf1cf472a4b3bee6dc1a06037d.jpg

Cpt. Cornelius C. Widdis, 150th PA Infantry, as bucktail example with a fashionable model stance.

314095924fbf4b5148d12e4c72c5af43.jpg

No party without the nurses of the Sanitary Commission.

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A couple of firemen.


And just to show that even silly hats could be progress - we have a not too comfortable iron hat from the English CW.

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Is that an adjustable bar on the iron hat?
 
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