Uniform – Gaiters!

We promised a post about gaiters, and so we deliver!

3 pairs might seem excessive, and it certainly produced a lot of work with 20-24 buttons and button holes per leg, but having the options was to both spread the wear and prepare a soldat for the whole year. This winter pair would have seen much use in the colder months of the sieges of Savannah and Yorktown. As a UK-based group, we plan for much the same weather! In time, we aim to all have pairs of all 3 sets. The French army was known to regularly change between guêtres – sometimes even more than once on the same day. Our soldats will have to find themselves a button hook…

Photo and guêtres produced by Graves Historical Uniforms, using material supplied by Kochan-Phillips Historical Textiles.