The uniform of the line was patterned after that worn by the French, and consisted of a deep-blue tunic and trousers. The collar of the tunic and tabs on the collar of the greatcoat were in the unit's facing colour, while the trousers side seams were in the piping colour. The shako/kepi was of dark-blue cloth, stiffened, with a black leather peak. On the front of the kepi was a metal button and metal badge; a flaming grenade denoting the Guards and the infantry having numbers to denote their regiment. A stocking cap, known as an Italian fisherman's cap, and similar to a knitted Monmouth cap, was worn by the line in place of a forage cap.

The waist belt was white with a brass buckle. The knapsack was black, sometimes with a buff-coloured tent atop it. The blanket was white with a brown criss-crossed pattern.

Drum cases were blue, with a red and white 'dragon's tooth' pattern on the rims. Cords were white.

Staff officers wore a felt bicorn with gold lace, or a kepi in undress.

Unit	Facings	Piping
Guard Grenadier Brigade	red	red
Savoy Brigade	black	red
Piemonte Brigade	red	red
Aosta Brigade	red	dark red
Cuneo Brigade	crimson	crimson
Regina Brigade	white	white
Casale Brigade	bright yellow	bright yellow
Pinerolo Brigade	black	red
Savona Brigade	white	red
Acqui Brigade	deep yellow	deep yellow

The Bersaglieri wore a distinctive pattern headdress, similar to the Tyrolean hat of the Austrian jagers: it was of black felt with domed crown and wide brim three inches in depth. The rim was stiffened and covered in oiled linen. The right side of the hat was decorated with a falling plume of black cock's feathers.

The greatcoat was worn by both branches of infantry, and was a light blue-grey. (Wilkinson-Latham reports that this was dark blue in colour, but he is mistaken, as there is ample contemporary evidence in the sketches of G.A. Cadogan showing the former. Further, Captain George McClellan of American Civil War fame wrote at the time that the Sardinian infantry left their tunics in Italy, but there is also evidence that this was not universal. It is likely that in certain of these cases, tunics are being mistaken for greatcoats.)

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