In the mid-19th century military stand collars were more or less the height that would look right to us today, ditto the size of hats people chose, fully fitting on the head.īut a style thing happed where people wanted more and more of their face and neck to show: military stand collars kept getting lower/narrower and hats kept getting smaller. Check out the Irish Brigade shop too, and have a pint in the Garryowen Irish Pub.Ībout the sizing and fit of hats, we might keep in mind that styles changed considerably from around the beginning of the Civil War to the late 19th century. But fair enough, because he did make it clear that he wasn't coming at it from a reenactor's viewpoint.Īnyhow everyone on this thread, if they haven't done, owes themselves a visit to Dirty Billy's in the lovely village of Gettysburg PA. Yes for someone with a reenactor past the OP's criticism of reproduction 19th century hats because they don't perform like modern hats is a bit like someone posting on a gun forum a negative review of a reproduction Enfield musket because it only holds one shot. (By the mid-1980s I was out of reenacting for good.) I started ACW reenacting in the mid-1970s, when it was a strange mix of the residual afterglow of the centennial combined with a hippielike laisser-aller attitude towards authenticity. This is an interesting thread, and not the sort I expected to find on The Fedora Lounge!
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