Which historical army had the most /fa/ uniforms and why is it the Japanese?
the Japanese in general are /fa/ as fuck so it does make sense
They look prussian as fuck.
>not having your uniforms designed by hugo boss
![tumblr_manq9naq2z1qcxemno4_500[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/hbD5CQZ.jpg "tumblr_manq9naq2z1qcxemno4_500[1].jpg")
Prussians desu.
Represented here by modern day Chileans.
>>17703
That's not the World War I French overcoat. Looks cozy and stylish.
>direct clone of European uniforms but on shorter people
>most /fa/
>>17775
Hugo Boss was only one of several production contractors. They did not design the uniforms.
Not even being a Naziboo, but the Wehrmacht during WW2 had pretty amazing officer uniforms. Prussia was pretty nice as well.
Clearly the prize has to go to Landschneckts though. They were incredibly /fa/.
>>17795
>Makes you look like a clown
>Makes you an easy target
>>17795
Yeah, looks cozy up until some German nails you with his rifle because you stand out like a sore godamn thumb
>>17703
Nazis anon
>>17868
I don't remember this thread being about practical uniforms.
>>17703
Nazis had pretty rad uniforms tbfh
>Best
>Not Wehrmacht
>>17703
>sticking huge feathers on a hat
Why was this even a thing? It just looks silly.
>>17899
Touche.
I've always had a soft spot for cavalry from the Napoleonic era. No matter what they did, they always managed to do it looking stylish.
>>17864
>clown
The colors were made more practical by 1939, not that it helped them much.
>easy target
see >>17899
![hires_130803-M-DR618-041[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/MpV9c7P.jpg "hires_130803-M-DR618-041[1].jpg")
>Not the Mongolians
Come the fuck on
>>17975
aye, cavalry in every age is made to look gaudy and stylish. There's a certain charm in the light/irregular cavalry like the Kalmyck, Hackapells and colonial cavalry, though. Not in an /fa/ way, unfortunately.
>>17998
Jap uniforms were nothing but a cheap copy of French and Prussian uniforms.
>>18103
Colonial units were also made to look pretty stylish.
Pic related is of Italian colonial soldiers (Somalian or Eritrean, based off the headgear), which were differentiated from the colors of their sashes and fez-tassels. The colors could get pretty elaborate, if anyone here wants to see a small image dump.
>Best military uniform in history
>Not the Roman Legion
baka desu senpai
>>17703
MUREEEENS
>>18350
average soldier wore pretty rough leather and looked far less impressive.
I don't understand how they managed to design uniforms this /fa/
Landsknecht obviously.
Naziboos need not apply.
>>18273
Go ahead. At least we can get some good content instead of /pol/'s attempt to culturally enrich the board.
>>18350
>segmentata
>>18413
I think USMC dress uniform looks nice.
>>18451
>those pantaloons
Yeah, no.
So what style of Jap uniform is this? I see it all the time, but for the life of me find out military branch it goes to
>>18581
Space mecha division I think
>>18468
Oh good, because I only have about 20 images of the stuff about the uniforms, and a couple more of postcards/propaganda pieces featuring a few of the units themselves.
To start off we have the cavalry of the Italian Colonial forces, which actually was in service until the Axis surrender in Tunis in 1943, albeit they operated in the deep desert, and largely (if ever) in any meaningful capacity. But they were used pretty frequently by the Italians prior to WW2.
>>18581
Imperial Japanese Army officer's uniform. It's not an exact 1:1 match, but that's the style they're going with.
>>18413
YES
Pick any of the army variants during World War 2, they all look great
>>18715
USMC dress uniform is easily above average compared to what the army has been putting out, all of which looks like shit.
>pic unrelated
A 1:6 scale picture of a standard from the 5th Infantry Regiment which was composed of the 1st Eritrean brigade, stationed in Libya. No time specified for the units posting, but presumably during the early-mid 1930's.
>>18830
Skipped the second page since it didn't really cover anything other than showing how colors were displayed. This page shows off the uniform and headgear worn by Italian Colonial Forces from 1933-1943 in both the A.S. (N. Africa) and A.O.I. (East Africa). The only major differences between the two are the headgear the units wore, and their organization. From what I've found, the Libyan I and II Divisions that were raised before the war started in 1940 were better equipped than the A.O.I. division, but I can't prove that for sure.
>>17755
Imperial Japan modeled itself after Prussia.
>>18715
>capes will never be back in fashion
>>19116
>>19116
Don't worry.
When the world gets bathed in radioactivity from WW3 you bet capes and cloaks will be the first thing that will come back into fashion.
Rhodesia's selous scouts
>>19225
Kek, that looks ridiculous.
>>19030
The A.O.I. had the oldest Italian colony in Italian Somalia, which had been recognized in 1911, and had a standing military force of 2,600 men. This page shows the design of their uniforms and standard from 1913/1923-1935, with a reorganization happening in 1923. These troops were known as 'Dubats', and were organized into six brigades, although how many there were at the time hostilities ceased in Italian East Africa when the British invaded I don't know, since the records were never too accurate.
>>19258
looks comfy as fuck baka tbqh senpai
>>19225
>Open chest
>Short sleeves
>Shorts
>FAL
God damn I miss Rhodesia and I didn't even exist back then
>>19225
>>19291
>Open chest
>Short sleeves
>Shorts
Maybe some drawfag should put a cute anime girl in this uniform.
>>19377
>>18728
On the soldier on the left, what is that pouch thing under his chin? Pic related also.
>>19225
You gotta have a beard if you wanna off set the silliness of short shorts
>>19439
oh snap
>>19458
It's an M5 gas mask.
>>17755
prussia has the best everything desu senpai
>>19465
>>19526
Thank you. I figured it was a pouch or something to keep maps dry
>>19480
Should i keep posting?
>>19561
Sure.
>>19581
>>19267
This next post is just showing off colors of various brigades that existed in Eritrea over the colonies existence.
>>19613
>>19657
South African Special Forces Brigade, also known as 'Recces'
>>19747
Koevoet, a South African Police paramilitary unit
>>19628
Showing us some standard designs for Eritrean units, this page also shows us the first of the 'Bande', which were largely irregular forces that the Italians started using in 1935. Although they proved (somewhat) effective against the Abyssians, they'd do much worse against the British, although they weren't intended as frontline units.
>>19559
Technically the bag wasn't made to be worn like a backpack but on your front, instead it was made to be on your side with one strap on your shoulder and one around your waist like the guy on the left in this pic. But since it was rubberized and airtight it acted like a flotation device and apparently saved some soldiers who got stuck in deeper water during the Normandy landings by wearing the bag like that.
>>19812
32 Battalion (sometimes nicknamed Buffalo Battalion or Portuguese: Os Terríveis for The Terrible Ones.) A light infantry battalion of the South African Army
>>19874
And that's all
>>18350
I think you mean these guys
>>19849
More unit colors, this time for both Eritrean and Somalian brigades. Italian designations were always confusing, since many units shared the same designation over time, despite being raised, dissolved, reraised, redissolved, rereraised, etc. Still, the variety in coloring is quite impressive.
>>19982
>boyfuckers
>>20045
>>19996
The next (and final) page covers unit colorations for the Libyan troops, which were probably some of the most experienced in the Italian army, having had to fight the Senussi throughout the 20's. Still, did them shit-for-luck when they had to fight the British, and after the losses of both the I and II divisions when the 10th Army surrendered, Rommel never saw fit to permit the raising of anymore native units. In his mind, it was partly because of the Italians reliance of native soldiers that they'd lost. That didn't quite fit with the OOB, but that's the Fox for ya.
>>17857
Tbh they were better earlier before rifles became largely used
>>19928
They look hideous. I'd rather see the men in short shorts and I'm not even of the homo sex.
>>19030
Carabineers of somalia sounds so weird and cool at the same time
Are there any images of somalian carabinieri wearing the uniform?
>>21982
Pic related, they were called zaptié
>>21982
The flag in the picture has 1956-58 on it, but I'm not sure why, since these uniforms never reappeared after the '40s. But there are pictures from the days of Italian Somalia like pic related, from 1912, showing Somalian carabinieri.
But you're right, the entire look of the colonial units is distinct in how weird and cool they managed to end up being.
>>18728
Nothing /fa/ about it.
It somehow doesn't even get utilitarian /fa/ points.
How is this even a question?
>>19982
Corinthian helmets are shit
>>22146
>>22152
Cool
14th Brooklyn N.Y.S.M (84th NY VOLS.) was pretty baller.
I think tricorns are really nice.
>>22286
And those would be 65/17 mountain guns the 5th battery is using, since the native divisions never had access to any heavier artillery than those. The rest would've been supplied by the Italian army proper on mobilization as regimental/divison-level attachments.
Another postcard (propaganda?) picture of A.O.I. native soldiers, this time of the XI brigade.
Don't talk shit, unless you want it buried to the hilt
>>20456
Maybe you just hate Japan.
Just because it's been mentioned a few times and I haven't seen anyone say it, the reason the older uniforms were much brighter, as I understand it at least, is because at the time modern military tactics like sniping, long range suppression, and targeting commanders was considered ignoble and rarely done, as was hiding.
The main goal of pre-1800's combat was to just hold out as long as you could in a straight shoot out. Part of the reason the American Civil War was so bloody is because for a good deal of the war the armies were still using the old "line up and shoot until they get scared" routine with much more accurate and powerful guns.
Also, Landsknechts a qt.
>>22535
>smash pikes
>steal clothes
>make your own silly clothes
truly the life of a German.
Something about those rugged British colonial troops man
I think it's the hats.
>>22364
As far as Union uniforms go i've always been partial to the Iron Brigade because of their baller hats.
>>22581
Don't forget the chest full of loot and using a fountain as a tap.
>>22486
Poor mule
Muh 95th Rifles
>>22736
Beat me to it.
>>22535
>s because at the time modern military tactics like sniping, long range suppression, and targeting commanders was considered ignoble and rarely done, as was hiding.
Actually colourful uniforms were a necessity due to the short range of the muskets and the large amount of smoke they created when fired, making it hard to identify friend or foe on the battlefield.
>>22486
i love how in 19th century/early 20th century Western popular art or cartoons, they'd depict blacks as comical and stereotypical if they wanted to mock them, or, alternatively, just as chocolate-coloured whites if they wanted to glorify them, like in this postcard
>>17703
OUT OF THE WAY MARXIST SHITS
>>22678
The mule's got it pretty easy, the 65/17 was designed to be light and easy to carry. Meanwhile, some German horse is busy carrying a 10.5 field-gun.
Little trivia, but the Italian artillery in North Africa was one of the few services to be almost (if not entirely) fully motorized.
>>22756
>Lettow-Vorbeck
Mein Neger.
The Russian Civil War also spawned some interesting varieties, mostly on the side of the White armies, with certain units like the Kornilov Division acquiring their own distinctive appearance.
>>22907
>/pol/'s_nightmare.jpg
>>22535
>Landsknechte using a matchlock musket over the superior but vastly more expensive wheel lock
boo
>>22535
yeah there were quite a few reasons
Uniforms boosted morale and unit cohesion. It helped keep a unit functioning while under fire
Most weapons were too short range for camouflage to be useful. Even if it was, the tactics of the time required units to stand in large formations, so even if you were wearing drab clothing, you wouldn't blend in to the surroundings.
Black powder weapons produce a lot of smoke very quickly. Like a lot. its going to do more to mask your position than any camouflage would.
also, napleonic hussars best uniform
Probably not the most /fa/ uniform out there, but Ma Chung-Ying's outfit in this picture is really taking the minimalist approach, and it works. Ma Chung-Ying was a Chinese Muslim and ran one of the more far-flung provinces in the Republic, which he supported.
He got the nickname 'General Big Horse' from the large horse he rode around on all the time. He's a central figure in Sven Ander Heydin's travelogue 'On the Trail of War in Central Asia', detailing the Swedish explorer & co's travels through both the Gansu (which Ma was in charge of) and Xinjiang provinces.
>>22902
It's a propaganda thing, really. The Italians weren't really very big on 'racial purity', and the emphasis behind much of their artwork, at least as it seems in regards to their colonial subjects, was in exhorting to have the proper Fascist 'spirit'.
Guess making you look at a chocolatified white guy can do the trick, although most colonial soldiers were perfectly capable at their respective jobs. Up until it came to fighting another European power, that is.
>>22902
>chocolate coloured whites
>with that chin/jaw/mouth
>>23066
Please shut the fuck up about the boogeyman.
Never has a better hat ever been made.
>black
>not /fa/
Also Danes are more attractive than other people so there's that, too.
you all pidory
/thread
>>22622
then you'll love the Anzacs
Wehrmacht a shit.
>>17795
Love french uniforms ever since after the revolution they got /fa/ as fuck
>>17795
This is some kind of turbo manlet.
Love carthagians and romans. Both /fa/ as fuck and really interesting
Royal Navy 1795-1812
>>17703
Sorry about the movie still, it was the only pic I could find in high res that showed the angle I wanted.
I really like the way this uniform fits. Also the colors work well together. I'd wear that dress shirt and tie even casually.
>>17703
Magyars can't be beat.
>>23504
>Up until it came to fighting another European power, that is.
Which of course applied to the whole Italian Army.
I always wonder what the world would look like had the Nazis not risen to power. Would fascism have such a bad rep?
No Indians? Shame on you /his/...
San Marino parade uniform
Ethiopians look flash as fuck
>>30937
>>31234
>>18270
Almost everything from Japan from the beginning of the country's oppenign since the end of the Meiji era was based on French and Prussian stuff. Be it uniforms, weapons, technics, politics, etc.
>>23066
>Christian empire with blushing blonde maids kissing soldier chastly upon the cheek, presenting him with flowers for a job well done/as a going away gift
>/pol/'s nightmare
Are we thinking of the same /pol/?
>>33009
I know that, but my criticism is that they tried and failed to capture the æsthetic essence of their uniforms but failed.
![marvel-vs-capcom-2-xbox-360-ps3-m-bison[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/5KOv12B.jpg "marvel-vs-capcom-2-xbox-360-ps3-m-bison[1].jpg")
>>31067
Looks like M.Bison.
>>18448
Depends on what year you're looking at m8. After Gaius did his reforms Roman legionaries were very well equipped.
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