On 19 Nov 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> > > > (To the person who suggested "Zulu" - that battle took place in 1879, so
> > > > it's actually around 70 years later than the Peninsular War in
> 
> 
> Hmm, yes, but uniforms of the 1700-1800s did not move much, only some of the 
> structuring changed. In fact British Admiralty uniforms of the 1930s would 
> not 
> have seemed too far out of place in the Regency period,

Well, in the same way a Model-T Ford and a Delorean are both clearly cars
and not trucks or busses...

Uniforms of, say 1770 and 1810 looked very different.  True, after the 
Napoleonic Wars, the victorious British kept their army looking much
like that of Waterloo until Wellington died and the Crimean War forced 
a lot of changes, but even then the silouette changed in line with 
civilian fashions.

-- Chris Bertani
www.goblinrevolution.org/costumes
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