The one that came with my dorkhat was red over white, which is incorrect, and made of feather, which is more incorrect. I made the new white over red one that you fixed to it - and very nicely, too. Thank you.
At a guess, I would say the costume department scuffed up making the plumes for their dorkhats, and made their plumes the other way round than the army ones. Maybe they felt they should vary them a bit?
Maybe they got tired of holding them on in high winds?
Seriously, though, I've never seen a chinstrap on a dorkhat in any AoS film or TV series featuring Marines. They'd be pretty useful. I read about hats in the pre-shako era (late 1790's) as having some sort of strap or tie that went under the queue at the back, rather than under the chin, and was thus 'invisible' or as invisible as a strap can be. I'd guess that if dorkhats ever had any sort of strap, it'd be something like that, that went under the queue, giving a tidier look from the front.
(Queues were formally got rid of in late 1808/early 1809, for the Army and also, presumably, for the Marines, who followed the Army but were a little behind with it. Hence why Thompson still wears a queue in May 1809.)
I love that you're just calling them dorkhats generally. :D
Chinstraps would indeed be pretty useful, and St. Helena looked like a pretty windy place. And if they no longer wore queues, they wouldn't even have enough hair to use a hatpin. (Heehee, dorkhats with hatpins... They could be made to look like tiny bayonets.)
You rock! (And I love your random soldier, too. :D )
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At a guess, I would say the costume department scuffed up making the plumes for their dorkhats, and made their plumes the other way round than the army ones. Maybe they felt they should vary them a bit?
Me with the original plume in The Hat:
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Also their dorkhats have chinstraps and yours doesn't. Why's that? (I assume you automatically know EVERYTHING about it if it's related to marines.)
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Seriously, though, I've never seen a chinstrap on a dorkhat in any AoS film or TV series featuring Marines. They'd be pretty useful. I read about hats in the pre-shako era (late 1790's) as having some sort of strap or tie that went under the queue at the back, rather than under the chin, and was thus 'invisible' or as invisible as a strap can be. I'd guess that if dorkhats ever had any sort of strap, it'd be something like that, that went under the queue, giving a tidier look from the front.
(Queues were formally got rid of in late 1808/early 1809, for the Army and also, presumably, for the Marines, who followed the Army but were a little behind with it. Hence why Thompson still wears a queue in May 1809.)
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Chinstraps would indeed be pretty useful, and St. Helena looked like a pretty windy place. And if they no longer wore queues, they wouldn't even have enough hair to use a hatpin. (Heehee, dorkhats with hatpins... They could be made to look like tiny bayonets.)
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