Talk:Uniforms of the British Army

Hats

is there some kind of traditional hat for the army infantry specifically? like the australian slouch hat?

Cadetbravo1 (talk) 10:19, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

The only thing I can think is the khaki beret. --Panzer71 (talk) 19:33, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

What type of dress is the frock coat sometimes worn by officers of the Household Division? 195.137.79.247 14:27, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

The link below shows the staggering variation of uniforms worn by the Life Guards (British Army) and the Blues and Royals. The site is maintained by an ex-member of the Household Cavalry with the support of the currently serving officers and men.

[1] Panzer71 (talk) 19:33, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Photos

There are none! This article could use some.Lakinekaki 17:35, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Good God

British troops really are the best in the world if their squaddies need to know all that shit. I prefer my "Ceremonial," (Winter/summer) "Barracks" (Winter/summer) "DPCU" (Winter/Summer). 124.180.238.55 (talk) 09:50, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

As laid out in this article, it's pretty theoretical. In practice most people would have "smart" (Service Dress), "working" (Combat 95 trousers and shirt, with jacket in winter) and "combat" (more or less anything in British DPM, but based on Combat 95). Though of course there is a whole "military fashion sense" based around which obsolete or non-issue equipment you wear and how you wear it - see http://www.arrse.co.uk/wiki/Category:Clothing ) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.97.184.230 (talk) 01:16, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Reference list

JSP: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=inurl:www.aof.mod.uk/content/docs/jsp336/3rd_ed/vol12/pt3/&num=100&hl=en&safe=off&filter=0 Happy‑melon 17:38, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

History?

Perhaps some notes on the evolution of British military dress compared to the rest of Europe should be added. In particular the fact that British formal military dress seems to have stopped developing after the 19th century (the British set-up of grey double breasted coat/ big tunic / etc is very Prussian). 118.90.85.8 (talk) 12:38, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Reference Links

All the links seem to be dead or not working, should they therefor be removed? 81.170.59.19 (talk) 19:56, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

I think I have managed to link them to archived versions, so they should work now. Lozleader (talk) 11:06, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Ruritarians

the cavalry unit shown in the photo behind the Irish Guards is I believe the band of the Inns of Court and City Yeomanry also in full dress 90.197.237.0 (talk) 11:06, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

Red Coats

I'm sure the comment under History about the majority of the Army wearing red coats is erroneous. With a few exceptions, I'm sure...by the 19th Century, at any rate...that red tunics were worn only by regiments of foot. Light Infantry and Rifles might wear green, but the artillery, engineers, and various support corps all wore blue tunics. As these support elements constitute the larger part of the Army, then logically the majority of soldiers must have worn blue tunics even before the universal adoption of the No. 2 Dress. This is ignoring the occasional unit that wore something more unusual, like grey. Aodhdubh (talk) 22:10, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Wooly Pully

Does anyone know where this came from? There's no further info except that they exist. But why or how did they come about? 76.21.107.221 (talk)