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Uniforms of staff officers and infantrymen, 1810-1813 [Complete disappearance of revolutionary dress]

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Description
  • In this view showing uniforms of about 1812, all features of dress suggesting Revolutionary times, have disappeared. Instead of the long cut-away coat with facings previously worn, we have in this period a close buttoned, single-breasted, modern coat of the present. The three cornered hat of the Revolution has entirely disappeared. All the officers, both mounted and on foot, wear a high "chapeau bras" style of hat, while the men wore for a short time high hats, of the form of the modern silk hat, as here shown with white plumes. Another noticeable feature of the dress of the officers and men in our view is the short hair and the absence of the queue so generally worn in the Revolutionary period. In 1801, for sanitary reasons, soldiers were ordered to wear their hair short and not to wear whiskers lower than the bottom of the ear as shown here. This order regarding whiskers was rescinded in 1853, and they were permitted, provided they were neatly trimmed, but the order regarding the keeping of the hair short is still in force.
MODS Note
  • Hand-tinted
Subject
Work Type
Identifier
  • P217:36:08
Local Collection Name
Is Part Of
  • Set 56 - History of Army Uniforms
Institution
Submission Date
  • 09/08/2016
Modified
  • 05/30/2023
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center, Oregon State University. "Uniforms of staff officers and infantrymen, 1810-1813 [Complete disappearance of revolutionary dress]" Oregon Digital. Accessed 2024-04-18. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df715s17z

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Data Sources
Footer Number Term External URI
1 Underwood & Underwood http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85188904
2 Military uniforms--History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107806
3 lantern slides http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300134977
4 Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides, 1900-1940 (P 217) http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/localCollectionName/p_217
5 Oregon State University http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80017721

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