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Animal rights lobby group Peta has threatened the Ministry of Defence (MoD) with legal action in a row over replacing the King’s Guards’ bearskin caps with a faux fur alternative.
The bearskin caps for British foot guards are coloured black. British bearskin caps were a form of headdress that evolved from mitre caps worn in the 18th century by grenadiers. [1] In 1768, the long cloth caps worn by grenadiers were discontinued, and bearskin caps were introduced. [35] Following the Battle of Waterloo, all members of the ...
The Grenadier Guards, Coldstream Guards, Scots Guards, Irish Guards, Welsh Guards, Royal Scots Dragoon Guards and Honourable Artillery Company wear bearskins, as do officers of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers; whose other ranks wear the flat-topped fusilier cap.
Today, the Life Guards has two full dress uniforms, a guard duty and a royal version. [58] These are mostly used by the Guard Company and are worn depending on the occasion. The uniform in general features a scarlet or blue tunic (royal and guard version respectively), blue trousers, a white cross belt, and a bearskin with the regiment's cap ...
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Following their role in the defeat of the French Imperial Guard at the Battle of Waterloo, the 1st Foot Guards was renamed the 1st (or Grenadier) Regiment of Foot Guards and all companies of the regiment adopted the bearskin. In 1831, it was ordered that all three Foot Guards should wear the bearskin cap, by then resembling the modern headdress ...
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