The mid-eighteenth century British regimental is a strange beast: voluminous, not sleek like those from thirty years later. It can be worn any number of ways. Rich officer types would often unbutton the lapels and shove their hands between the coat and the waistcoat for portraits. The shape is unmistakable: short sleeves, big cuffs, long […]
Read more "Regimental Revisited"Pretty happy with the belted waistcoat. We’ll see how practical it is in the Spring when it gets torture-tested on a movie set. Dangerous territory, this garment. There is documentation and visual evidence for them, but little else. The concept SEEMS sound (what little we know about it.) Traditional waistcoats have their problems. One solution […]
Read more "Blasphemy"So this happened. The folks who took the real time battlefield tour in Princeton, NJ this year got a surprise. A Pennsylvania Associator company appeared right where they were in 1776. We maneuvered and fired as if fighting ghosts of the 17th Regiment of Foot. We marched all night to get there. The scheme started […]
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