In general, equipment details and description vary from vague to non-existent. Although Marlborough has a reputation for looking after his troops very well, he and his staff do not appear to have been very interested in keeping records or issuing detailed, written instructions regarding regulation dress etc., and much appears to have been left to the discretion and fancy of the regimental colonels apart from a basic requirement of 'good quality cloth' for the coats which, after replacement, was to be used to make a waistcoat, and a pair of 'good' stockings, breeches and shoes and a 'good strong hat well laced', to quote Lawson Vol. I. Generally after 1702 the coat was red although this seems to vary from scarlet to crimson, but breeches, stockings and linings of coats appear to vary widely with almost unlimited permutations. Some typical combinations mainly quoted in C.P.Lawson Vol.I are as follows: In all known cases, the hat and shoes were black and the neckcloth white. Waistcoats were generally red, occasionally buff, grey or white. These are British examples. European examples can be found in Funken's "Le Costume et les Armes des Soldats de Tous lea Temps" Vol. I. Back to Table of Contents -- Wargamer's Newsletter # 119 To Wargamer's Newsletter List of Issues To MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1971 by Donald Featherstone. This article appears in MagWeb.com (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles from military history and related magazines are available at http://www.magweb.com