#military uniform

Fatal Sky (1990) - Charles Durning as Colonel Clancy

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Mister Roberts (1984) - Charles Durning as The Captain

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Charles Durning as The Captain in Mister Roberts(1984).

Mister Roberts (1984) - Charles Durningas The Captain

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Above, the Tobacco Box by William Henry Bunbury. Below, Captain of Light Infantry, as represented in the Kirkman print. The same cap? I don’t know. It was not unknown for artists to use the most readily visible soldiers as models for their pictures, regardless of the type of soldier in question. This lead to some rather comical depictions of members of the volunteer associations bidding tearful farewells to their sweethearts. (the volunteer associations sole purpose was home defense- They never served abroad)

Junior Officer, 11th Dragoons, 1781. 

The rosette fashion in which he has tied his sash was just one of the many methods of tying the sash practiced during the latter part of the 18th century. As with many of the more finicky details of uniform, the method of tying appears to have been largely a matte of taste. His waistcoat matches the buff facings of his regimental coat, and is double breasted and ‘boxed’, or without tabs. 

Captain John Gassaway, 2nd Maryland Regiment, 1781.

Colonel Edward Cornwallis of the 24th Regt. of Foot by Sir George Chalmers, 1755.

jaded-mandarin:

Henry Benbridge. Detail form Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 1773.

greven-av-sveaborg:

Kunglinga Majestäts Livgarde och Drottningens Livregemente, Sverige, 1783

King’s and Queen’s Royal Guard Regiments, Sweden, 1783

another drawing of lloth in the international legion of Ukraine