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Coolest Uniforms - 1/7/2006 9:36:47 AM   
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Status: offline 		Who do you guys think had the coolest uniforms? Personally I like the Roman Tribunes. Damn they looked good. Late 1800's British officer dress uniforms looked really cool too.

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RE: Coolest Uniforms - 1/7/2006 10:25:18 AM   
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I also like the French soldiers of the early to middle 1700s. They had a spiffy tricorne hat with plumes, and swords were still quite in fashion at the time. You can't but admit that the musketeers had cool uniforms!

and then there's the vatican swiss guard...

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RE: Coolest Uniforms - 1/7/2006 10:46:55 AM   
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German WWII uniforms are cool. Remember Ed Harris in Enemy at the Gate?

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RE: Coolest Uniforms - 1/7/2006 10:54:51 AM   
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Hi,

German WWII uniforms are cool. Remember Ed Harris in Enemy at the Gate?

As I quoted in an earlier thread....the Nazis were dressed by Hugo Boss..........now that's style.

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RE: Coolest Uniforms - 1/7/2006 11:55:50 AM   
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RE: Coolest Uniforms - 1/7/2006 12:21:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		I have always had a soft spot for the Polish Winged Hussars. The Germans certainly knew how to look spiffy in WW2 and I also like the US marines dress uniform.




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RE: Coolest Uniforms - 1/7/2006 4:04:25 PM   
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As I quoted in an earlier thread....the Nazis were dressed by Hugo Boss..........now that's style.


As far as I know, he didn't design them, he only produced those uniforms.

I like the German WW I uniforms.

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RE: Coolest Uniforms - 1/7/2006 5:12:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		German SS & Luftwaffe (I always thought that light blue looked cool........thats why I always liked the HErman Goering Dv.........a badass PZ div in light blue unis!!!!

I guess you culd say I'm a little prejudiced but I always thought Marine dress blues were sharp and JEB Stuart was dressed to the nines!!!!




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RE: Coolest Uniforms - 1/7/2006 5:40:12 PM   
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RE: Coolest Uniforms - 1/7/2006 5:49:13 PM   
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Status: offline 		If you count sports unis, again from a prejudiced view, but LSU & Texas football unis (UT's helment w/burnt orange Longhorn is exceptionally cool) are sharp!!!!

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RE: Coolest Uniforms - 1/7/2006 6:49:44 PM   
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RE: Coolest Uniforms - 1/7/2006 11:44:35 PM   
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RE: Coolest Uniforms - 1/8/2006 1:55:13 AM   
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#2. WWII Nazi SS black uniforms (if it's true that Boss designed those threads, then it certainly shows)

#3. The new US "Predator" camo uniforms.

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RE: Coolest Uniforms - 1/8/2006 2:43:56 AM   
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Or any of Napoleon's Marshal's.
They were all outfitted by Versace.

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RE: Coolest Uniforms - 1/8/2006 4:51:20 AM   
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Status: offline 		" I've always thought that the Louisianna Tigers looked pretty spiffy."


They also get my vote. I had some friends who reconstituted the unit for the NSSA (North-South Skirmish Association - a target competition organization, not re-enactors). The second national matches they attended were in a heavy downpour, and their red shirts faded onto the white and blue trousers, turning them pink and purple. From then on, we called them "the Pink Puddycats".


edit... the forum made me change the name slightly...

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RE: Coolest Uniforms - 1/8/2006 7:20:52 AM   
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RE: Coolest Uniforms - 1/8/2006 10:21:20 AM   
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This is probably my favorite uniform. Not sure what country (or that it matters):






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RE: Coolest Uniforms - 1/8/2006 12:02:31 PM   
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Hi,

German WWII uniforms are cool. Remember Ed Harris in Enemy at the Gate?

I agree!

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RE: Coolest Uniforms - 1/8/2006 12:35:26 PM   
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RE: Coolest Uniforms - 1/8/2006 12:44:25 PM   
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RE: Coolest Uniforms - 1/8/2006 12:45:24 PM   
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RE: Coolest Uniforms - 1/8/2006 1:27:02 PM   
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RE: Coolest Uniforms - 1/9/2006 4:05:02 PM   
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RE: Coolest Uniforms - 1/9/2006 4:46:23 PM   
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Patrick Henfield's Starship Troopers


Patrick Henfield?????

Did a search on him and got no hits.

Did you mean Robert Heinlein???

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RE: Coolest Uniforms - 1/10/2006 8:59:43 AM   
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the Terran Federation soldiers in the Japanese anime rendition of Patrick Henfield's Starship Troopers looked damn cool too...while we're at it...

do you have a link that I look at some pics? That sounds cool!

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RE: Coolest Uniforms - 1/10/2006 4:19:54 PM   
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First thing my wife did was call the kid from TV "Doogie Himmler"

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RE: Coolest Uniforms - 1/10/2006 5:46:22 PM   
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Paul Verhoven did a good job in the Starship Troopers movie copying the Nazi uniforms and updating them - they did look pretty sharp.

First thing my wife did was call the kid from TV "Doogie Himmler"


That was "almost" a good adaptation of Heinlein's book - except for the fact that they left out the most important part of the bloody book - the armoured MI suit. That alone disqualifies it for a "decent" SciFi movie, although they did try to get the rest of the politics and some of the action at least moderatly right.

Now. I am a man of simple taste in some things, and like understated. An old USN dress blues (the ones you had to buy which had real "bells" and not just stove pipe pants - which were illegal for inspection but alright for libs - go figure) with properly salty white hat, and a good high neckerchief knot (usually tightened up as soon as your feet left the brow) is enough for my taste. Had a lot of fun, and got into some trouble with that one.

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RE: Coolest Uniforms - 1/10/2006 11:40:25 PM   
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RE: Coolest Uniforms - 1/11/2006 2:58:45 AM   
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That was "almost" a good adaptation of Heinlein's book - except for the fact that they left out the most important part of the bloody book - the armoured MI suit. That alone disqualifies it for a "decent" SciFi movie, although they did try to get the rest of the politics and some of the action at least moderatly right.



Couldn't agree more. Without the nukes and jump suits, combat was pretty silly in the film. Heinlein had vision, the movie had gratuitous violence and special effects.

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RE: Coolest Uniforms - 1/11/2006 3:00:23 AM   
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