At what point did everyone divide their military attire into field, service, and dress uniforms? The idea that one uniform will work could not survive into the era of "radical lethality," at least in the USA and in other wealthy countries. But providing multiple uniforms is an expensive proposition. I suppose the Peoples Liberation Army of Vietnam used one uniform for everything, and they won all their wars.
Interestingly the German Army circa WWII, and in the late 1930s had developed a camouflage that we now know as Duo Tex. - the army tested it with radar reflective paint in the 90s on the Abrahms. and although the pattern was considered effective by both the Germans and US Army it was ‘not adopted. Fast forward to circa 2010 and duo Tex patterns were the new Army and Marine Corps uniforms as well as the rucksacks and other equipment. I guess some ideas are just ahead of their time. It’s a shame the French did not adopt the Reseda uniforms they were much more practical
Separate work uniforms appear in the eighteenth century, especially in the cavalry, where men who wore particularly expensive uniforms were also obliged to muck out stables. By the late nineteenth centuries, soldiers (such as those in the US) provided with more than one service uniform tended to save one for 'dress' and the other for 'daily wear'.
At what point did everyone divide their military attire into field, service, and dress uniforms? The idea that one uniform will work could not survive into the era of "radical lethality," at least in the USA and in other wealthy countries. But providing multiple uniforms is an expensive proposition. I suppose the Peoples Liberation Army of Vietnam used one uniform for everything, and they won all their wars.
Interestingly the German Army circa WWII, and in the late 1930s had developed a camouflage that we now know as Duo Tex. - the army tested it with radar reflective paint in the 90s on the Abrahms. and although the pattern was considered effective by both the Germans and US Army it was ‘not adopted. Fast forward to circa 2010 and duo Tex patterns were the new Army and Marine Corps uniforms as well as the rucksacks and other equipment. I guess some ideas are just ahead of their time. It’s a shame the French did not adopt the Reseda uniforms they were much more practical
Separate work uniforms appear in the eighteenth century, especially in the cavalry, where men who wore particularly expensive uniforms were also obliged to muck out stables. By the late nineteenth centuries, soldiers (such as those in the US) provided with more than one service uniform tended to save one for 'dress' and the other for 'daily wear'.