Boys Brigade Uniform Garments: Blue Shirts


Figure 1.-- For dress occassions they are worn with a dark blue Boy's Brigade tie. Some boys had a Boys Brigade badge on the left shoulder. The boy here has an arm bad with award pins on it. He also has an embroidered Boy's grigade badge on this left breast pocket. In general Boys' Brigade boys wore fewer badges on their shirts than Scouts. Image coutesy of the MD Collection.

For many years there was no Boys' Brigade shirt. Almost all Boys' Brigade uniforms, once a full uniform was introdued involved a long sleeved blue shirt in varying shades and designs. We have noted many different shades of blue, but all the Brigade uniform shirts we have noted to date have been blue. Most like the English Boys' Brigade are a dark shade of blue. Some have had mititary styles like flap pockets, but no epsulets as is common on many Scout shirts. For dress occassions they are worn with a dark blue Boy's Brigade tie. Some boys had a Boys Brigade badge on the left shoulder. The boy here has an arm bad with award pins on it. He also has an embroidered Boy's grigade badge on this left breast pocket. In general Boys' Brigade boys wore fewer badges on their shirts than Scouts.







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Created: 5:14 AM 6/25/2004
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