Authentic Kepi?

[Come On Christmas]

Here is some pics!

 

http://m302.photobucket.com/albumview/albums/shameless54/Snapbucket/13FE978F.jpg.html?newest=1

 

http://pbckt.com/p4.RYkAA4

 

http://pbckt.com/p4.RYkArw

 

Now vote! Authentic or Smurfingly?

 

Shameless

[Horace Patootie, SASS #35798]

Kepi or forage cap?

[Pay Dirt Norvelle #90056]

As a Forage cap that is ok, but it is, for sure, not a Kepi.

[EE Taft]

Forage cap....yup.

 

....As to the look.....take that dude and cock it off to one side or the other and it'll look great! Just a little lean to it!

[Come On Christmas]

Ooops wrong nomenclature.

[EE Taft]

I've been thinkin' of gettin one (Probably a CS cavalry) just for those days when I want to wear a cap with my ......regular clothes! (implying that my SASS clothes are my regular clothes)

 

It would stay period correct without having the cowboy hat in the way....like when driving to and from shoots and such. I tend to wear my duds when working around the house and pretty much anything. One of those might be more practical for times when a cowboy hat is a bit much.......(Think Deets on Lonesome dove) sort of an ex CS cavalry soldier turned cowboy.

 

.......Dang, now I want one!

 

 

~EE Taft~

[Subdeacon Joe]

I don't think I have ever seen either one look good on anyone. And the blasted things don't keep the sun or rain off worth a darn.

[Calico Mary]

You can't look like Papa Smurf, you ain't blue!

[Utah Bob #35998]

I've been thinkin' of gettin one (Probably a CS cavalry) just for those days when I want to wear a cap with my ......regular clothes! (implying that my SASS clothes are my regular clothes)

 

It would stay period correct without having the cowboy hat in the way....like when driving to and from shoots and such. I tend to wear my duds when working around the house and pretty much anything. One of those might be more practical for times when a cowboy hat is a bit much.......(Think Deets on Lonesome dove) sort of an ex CS cavalry soldier turned cowboy.

 

.......Dang, now I want one!

 

 

~EE Taft~

Here ya go.

C&D Jarnagin

[Utah Bob #35998]

The more you wear a Bummer, the more seasoned it will get. When new they don't flop right.

Utah the Reb in his youth.

[Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172]

Here ya go.

C&D Jarnagin

 

Jeeeeez, I had forgotten all about them. Still in bizness I see. Big Thing.

 

They make good stuff, or at least they did back in the '70s and '80s.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

I didn't know Santa was interviewing for elves this early, Shameless. I hope you get the job.

[EE Taft]

Thanks, UB.

 

I hadn't found them yet!

 

Good looking stuff and the prices are a bit better than some others I've seen.

 

.......Y'all realize that when I get some new piece of clothing I have to go through the whole "Wife laughing for a month until she gets use to it" thing, Right? It's ok though, I have fun with it! Always have!

 

 

~EE~

[Bama Red]

Here is a good source, also.

 

Scroll down about 2/3 of the way for Kepis and Bummers

 

Blockade Runner 1

 

Whole page of CSA Kepi's

 

CSA Officers kepi's

[Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172]

IIRC, at some distant past date, some folks made leather kepi hats for the general consumption. I doubt that they were ever GI Issue or even CGI issue. But some folks thought that they were fashionable ( I hate the use of the word cool for a description of the social acceptability of things) and so they sold a few.

 

I. myself, never did cotton to them, but others had different ideas, so be it.

[Utah Bob #35998]

IIRC, at some distant past date, some folks made leather kepi hats for the general consumption. I doubt that they were ever GI Issue or even CGI issue. But some folks thought that they were fashionable ( I hate the use of the word cool for a description of the social acceptability of things) and so they sold a few.

 

I. myself, never did cotton to them, but others had different ideas, so be it.

 

They still sell them. They are abominations, popular mainly with the biker and trailer park communities.

[Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172]

In their defense, I guess they would hold water for a bit. Not much else I can say for them.

 

Now a good wool Kepi or bummer is a thing to behold. I myself, always was partial to the blue ones,

thinking that the Southern boys would not want to look like the Northern boys. Of course the French

military influence was strong at that time. Further evidenced by the photographs of the time and the

poses of the subjects. Napoleon comes to mind, posed with his hand in his vest.

[Come On Christmas]

Here is a good source, also.

 

Scroll down about 2/3 of the way for Kepis and Bummers

 

Blockade Runner 1

 

Whole page of CSA Kepi's

 

CSA Officers kepi's

 

+1 for blockade runner! That is where my forage hat be from. Check out the Havlock to go with a Kepi to keep the sun off your neck. Looks like your in the French Foreign Legion.

 

Chameless :~>=