19.03.2021 в 10:26
Пишет PennyRed:Цвет: красный.URL записи
Когда копаешь определённую тему и в определённый момент доходишь до "материка", гранитного основания, на котором держится всё, нужно быть готовым встретиться с тем знанием, которое не ставит дальнейших вопросов, но только "умножает скорбь".
Cyrus Cassidy: Note the red sash around my waist. This is me impersonating my 6th-great grandfather, who served as a Lieutenant in the Continental Army. Officers wore the sash for two reasons: 1) It identified them as officers from a distance, and 2) It unfolded and could be used with two sticks or two rifles to create a stretcher for said officer (rank does have its privileges). The one I'm wearing is of authentic material, which was a silk blend, and would definitely be strong enough to bear me.
That said, I'm just wondering aloud if this tradition carried on into the Old West. I know the officers in the Union and Confederate armies in the later Civil War both worse similar sashes. The weave pattern was different, but the purposes were the same.
* Оригинальный пост с фото.
"...But, tell me Arthur, why have you and Henri, those red handkerchiefs tied round your waist? Chapeau has one too, and those other men, below there.”
“That’s our uniform,” said Arthur. “We are all red scarfs; all the men who clambered into Saumur through the water, are to wear red scarfs till the war is over; and they are to be seen in the front, at every battle, seige and skirmish. Mind, Agatha, when you see a red scarf, that he is one of Henri Larochejaquelin’s own body-guard; and when you see a bald pate, it belongs to a skulking republican.”
Anthony Trollope "La Vendée".