Officers, 1825

This is a mixture of two prints, the three on the right are from one and the officer on the left is from another. He is wearing the pale blue overalls that the Blues wore in undress, although they are baggier than in the 1814 picture by Dighton and have a broad red stripe instead of two gold ones. The gold lace chevrons on his sleeve are incorrect in that there should be four not three. The next officer has the four chevrons. He is in full dress with cocked hat an item that was worn by cavalry officers going to levees and balls, although this man is in day wear with dark blue cossacks and gold stripe, for evenings he would wear white breeches and stockings. The man with his back to us is an officer in undress with frock coat and forage cap. Again, he wears the pale blue undress overalls. The officer on the right is in full dress, mounted order. He could just as easily be wearing the tall bearskin introduced for the household cavalry in 1821. Note the single gold lace loop on the collar that was replaced by the more elaborate style in about 1826.

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