" full-dress uniform - dark blue tunic with rich gold braid on collar and cuffs, the latter of scarlet: gold cross belt and gold embroidered pouch, gold waistbelt with sword attached to gold sling: dark blue trousers (overalls) with broad scarlet stripes: and blue helmet with round brass nob. It formed a considerable item in a subaltern's outfit, the whole of which amounted to a hundred pounds or thereabouts, and the number of time one wore it was negligible."
Charles Orr's Memoirs | Royal Artillery
