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The whole French Intervention in Mexico French and Allied Army range.
THE UNIFORMITY OF OFFICER
DRESS
- Officers of all sides largely dressed alike
and despite uniform regulations they were generally ignored. A fertile
cross-mixing of French, North African, Mexican and US styles provided the
inspiration and gave an appearance of romance.
- For both sides, basic officers’ dress was a dark
blue frock coat or occasionally a hip length coat or waist length shell jacket,
often in varying shades of blue. Some Imperial Mexican officers wore green
frock coats. In the Mexican army superior officers often wore the coat turned
back, showing the red lining covered in gold lace. Rank markings were sometimes
of the US pattern of shoulder tabs bearing stars in varying numbers according
to rank. Cuffs of all officers usually had double lines of gold lace.
- Officers also wore civilian clothes of varying
cut including more elaborate versions of rancheros’ dress.
- Headgear could be sombrero, kepi or flat-topped
pillbox cap with a peak.
- Trousers were dark blue, white or sometimes
red.
- Sashes of red or blue worn over or under the
coat were also widely used.
- Officers of both sides wore a variety of
boots, ankle boots, lace-up shoes, knee length riding boots, over the knee type
and in the French Army in particular, thigh high soft leather in black or light
tan, often held up by a band at the knee.
- As a general rule sword knots of both officers
and men were tan if they had tan leather equipment and white or silver if the
equipment was white or black. Senior officers sometimes had gold sword knots.’