POLISH-LITHUANIAN COMMONWEALTH

MILITARY DRESS in the 16th -17th C.    costume

by ZOFIA STEFAŃSKA (b.1900- d,1983)

Including a section on the The Textile Industry Infrastructure required to support Military Uniform Needs

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Table of Contents

• Introduction

• Cavalry

• Infantry

• Royal Guard

• Artillery

• General Conclusions

• Textile Industry Infrastructure 

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 The basic uniform color for dragoons was green. Our sources mentioned only one unit of dragoons, that Weyher’s dragoons were dressed in 1645 on the model of infantry - in blue. And this is logical, if one treats dragons as mounted infantry. But in this case we are talking about a single unit of dragons in a magnate’s private army.  d'Avaux states that  Green served for dragoons as a general convention. We cited several sources already concerning 1703,  that dragoons wore green uniform coats  with collar, facing and lining in red.  The rankers were in dark green, non-commissioned officers and trumpeters and drummers were in lighter green. Trousers had suede seats reinforced for riding. By 1703 dragoons started to wear tricorn hats instead of the black colpak. So, at some point in the 17^th C. uniform of green color became standard, as codified in the uniform reforms of August II. Perhaps, from this time lies the origin of the name of the color ‘vert de dragon’. The Stanisławowski Reforms of 1775 set the uniform color for dragons as dark green. costume zupan clothing Ukrainian    1600 musketeer saber rapier war war game banner flag

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