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Brigadier

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Both military and civilian.

It seems that German army and navy uniform hats were of the same basic design, of course with insignia and coloring different.  Am I right?

Also, did pretty much every European wear the same types of hats (fedoras, top hats, skimmers, "Andy Capp" hats), etc.?



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If you make a google search of WW1 era miliatry hats, the results will be widely varied. As a general rule, only the French and Austrians didn't used the usual "flat top-peaked cap" associated with armies nowadays. However, the cut and styles varied wildly. Germans officers were very dapper and used a type of flat cap with small crown, relatively high "headband" and short, but rakish, leather or celluloid visor. Some officers, as war progressed, used a less formal cap, like that of the unstiffened caps of aviators. For the Navy, I guess that the design was slightly altered (or perhaps the different material used changed the overall shape). The crown was somewhat smaller and the headband higher, to accomodate a larger insignia up front. Some had unstiffened caps of some heavy cotton twill, others, more formal stiff caps. Check google and you'll see how much this changed throughout the war. For a 1919 street action, I'd advise the less formal attires...
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About civilian hats... well, from fedoras to hamburgs and bowler hats... soft caps of a thousand different designs... everything was used. Men rarely stepped out in the streets without some head cover.
In continental Europe the fashion seems to have been more the soft hat varieties and some peaked caps not unlike military caps, but made of dark cloth. Alas, bowlers and boaters were common too! In Germany I assume that there were some regional hats, like the Alpine soft hats, and even some top hats for the "swells".

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-- Edited by d_fernetti on Monday 3rd of February 2014 03:48:37 PM

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Lots of info in this discussion of civilian dress.



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