American Boys' Brigade: Uniforms


Figure 1.--Here we see a Boys' Brigade unit in Brigham, Maine during 1910. It looks like they are preparing for tge 4th of July parade. The boys are wearing Civil War styles, but we see the officer caps and puttees that look like Spanish-American War uniforms. We think the postcard says Congressional Church.

The american Boys' Brigade seem to have been elaborate uniforms loosely based on Civil War styles. This was very differentthan the Brigade's approach in Britain. We suspect that Sir William would not have approved of the extravagant uniforms observeable in early-20th century photographs. We see ranks and uniforms - Officers all dressed up with swords, braided tunics, peaked caps and crests. The basic style seems to have been Federal Civil War uniforms. The Boys wore blue drill jackets with seven brass buttons, a black leather belt, white duck trousers, brown leggings and a French chasseur cap with cross guns in front. They were festooned with medals and decorations of every kind. We are not sure how closely the varrious units formed complied. The New York group here seems to have complied fairly cliosely (figure 1). Other images suggest that there was no closely defined style other than Federal Cicil War styles.






HBU






Navigate the Historic Boys' Uniform Chronology Pages:
[Return to the Main chronologies page]
[The 1900s] [The 1910s] [The 1920s] [The 1930s] [The 1940s] [The 1950s] [The 1960s] [The 1970s] [The 1980s] [The 1990s] [The 2000s]



Navigate the Historic Boys' Uniform Web Site:
[Activities] [Biographies] [Chronologies] [Countries] [Essays] [Garments] [Organizations] [Religion] [Other]
[Introduction] [Bibliographies] [Contributions] [FAQs] [Questions] [Unknown images]
[Boys' Uniform Home]



Navigate the Historic Boys' Uniform Web organization pages:
[Return to the Main U.S. Boys' Brigade page]
[Return to the Main Boys' Brigade national page]
[Return to the Main youth organization page]
[Church Lads] [Camp Fire] [Hitler Youth] [National] [Pioneers] [Royal Rangers] [Scout]





Created: 4:59 AM 9/22/2012
Last updated: 4:59 AM 9/22/2012