Officer, Undress 1835

This print, no.44 in the Spooner Upright Series, is titled 10th Hussars, Undress, and is of interest because the officer wears an undress uniform unique to the 10th Hussars. This pattern was ordered for all the hussar regiments in the 1822 Dress Regulations but only adopted by the 10th. The 1834 DR does not mention the special pattern but instead orders a plain blue stable jacket with olivet buttons down the front. It seems that the officers of the 10th Hussars were the only ones wealthy enough to have this more expensive undress uniform. The jacket was worn with the dress pouch-belt and pouch. The blue forage cap is elaborately decorated with gold lace and braid. The trousers follow the undress pattern in the DR, blue cloth, with yellow stripe, one inch and half wide, down the outward seam.
The full leopardskin saddle cover was an expensive undress item for officers of the 10th, incorporating the four legs and a disgruntled-looking head. It covers a blue valise with X KH embroidered on the ends which must be the artist’s mistake as the title of the regiment was officially the 10th, The Prince of Wales’s Own Royal Light Dragoons (Hussars).

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