Fig. 1. Mounted Trooper, Gala Dress Picklehaulbe black leather, brass fittings, white horse hair plume, white cords, tunic dark blue, red collar, lapels, cuffs and pocket piping, brass buttons, epaulettes; red board and strap, brass half moon, white fringe, breeches dark blue with red stripe, black boots with steel spurs and scabbard, brass hilt, white leather sword knot. Belts and slings in white leather, shabraque and valise; dark blue with red trim, national coat of arms in yellow lace. Fig.2. Officer, Gala Dress As for fig. 1, except: gilt metal not brass, plume red, cords in gold lace, tunic with gilt buttons, gold lace on collar and cuffs, epaulettes; red board, gold lace edge and holding strap, gilt half moon, gold lace fringe and pip, note piping under lapels for all ranks in red, waist sash in silver lace, breeches as for fig. 1. sword knot in gold lace. Fig.3. Trooper, Service Dress As for Fig. 1., no plume, note national cockade roundal under chin-scales, sky blue, white, sky blue. Sources: Dress Regulations and Photographs. Back to Table of Contents -- El Dorado Vol V No. 1 Back to El Dorado List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1992 by The South and Central American Military Historians Society This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com