Post by BenVK on Apr 24, 2014 18:38:58 GMT
According to the official Army regulations, the Old Style Fieldcap or Feldmuetze Alter Art is a leather visored peaked cap for Officers, of lightweight construction and incorporates the flat wire embroidered insignia rather than alloy. Chincords were not meant to worn with this cap although the reason behind this is unclear.
In reality, an enormous variety of leather visored caps were produced yet they all get categorized as "crushers" by collectors in the modern age.
The term "crusher" is a total misnomer when it comes to describing these caps because Germans have never used this name and it is solely an American invention based on a description of their own uniform caps with leather visors.
On the whole, a "true" example of an Old Style Fieldcap will not only have a leather visor, it will also have a flexible buckram pasteboard rather than paper card, will not have much padding if any at all within the crown of the cap and in general, will be about 1/2 as heavy as a regular visor cap.
Below is a typical example which ticks all the boxes of a "true" Old Style Fieldcap.
In reality, an enormous variety of leather visored caps were produced yet they all get categorized as "crushers" by collectors in the modern age.
The term "crusher" is a total misnomer when it comes to describing these caps because Germans have never used this name and it is solely an American invention based on a description of their own uniform caps with leather visors.
On the whole, a "true" example of an Old Style Fieldcap will not only have a leather visor, it will also have a flexible buckram pasteboard rather than paper card, will not have much padding if any at all within the crown of the cap and in general, will be about 1/2 as heavy as a regular visor cap.
Below is a typical example which ticks all the boxes of a "true" Old Style Fieldcap.
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