breaking a bit of radio silence.

[burntcopper]

Have admittedly tried to be as lazy as possible in the last few days.

Tonight, 1st preview of Wolfboy at Trafalgar Studios with Daniel Boys. Me and etmuse will be there to heckle

Comments

[birdsflying]

British military used to wear red so could have re-enactors from around Boer war era (Boer name for British soldiers: rooinek or red-neck, due to both colour of jacket and the sunburn they got on the back of their necks.)

[burntcopper]

considering there wasn't really a uniform during civil war, I do find it amusing that they're wearing red coats. On t'other hand, I don't think I've ever heard of Boer War re-enactors in the UK - it's nearly always battles that took place in the UK or European. The ones I saw definitely weren't Wellington/Regency era, and I'm pretty sure they weren't Jacobite, so guessing Civil War at this rate.

[gmh]

Army use of red does date from the Civil War; one of the innovations introduced by the formation of the New Model Army in February 1645 was a standard uniform including a red coat - the colour of the facings varied according to regiment and troop.

(IIRC, they usually wore a buff jerkin over the coat.)

Of course, the person to ask on this is probably mingmerciless...

[birdsflying]

Wikipedia has decent array of possible redcoated British uniforms.

[silly_swordsman]

Civil war groups tends to be purple, blue or grey, IIRC.

[burntcopper]

any idea what it could've been then? It looked like it was definitely pre-Regency/Napoleonic, given the floppy hats and knee britches and what the women were wearing...

[burntcopper]

on checking a bunch of images, definitely english civil war.

[silly_swordsman]

Just had a look at wikipedia now, and it seems the New Model Army were redcoats. Fancy that.

[morbid_sparks]

*mutters about Russel*

*mutters about not making it tonight*