Officer, Stable Dress 1897

This detail from Simkin's plate of the Yorkshire Hussars in his well-known series for the Army and Navy Gazette depicts an officer in dismounted stable dress. It was published in July 1897 and titled Military Types no. 115. The stable jacket is quite plain, with silver braid tracing the edge of the jacket and collar. There is a simple loop of braid on the cuff with two silver buttons, and a double line of braid following the seams at the back of the jacket, ending in trefoils. There are silver cord shoulder straps on which are gold embroidered rank badges. The front of the jacket has hooks and eyes and 5 olivet buttons in silver. This jacket was also the mess jacket, worn open but fastened at the neck with a small silver loop. The pouchbelt is the dress version but with the undress black leather pouch. This matched the black leather sabretache, and both were decorated with a single silver rose. The slings that hold the sabretache are the red leather type as used in full dress. His sword knot is of gold cord. The other ranks in the background are in review order and have carbines on their saddles. Their black pouches are plain, without the rose badge, but they have a white metal rose on their black fur busbies. The busby plume is all black, without the red base worn on the officers' busbies, and the cap-lines are of white cord.