what military had the best uniforms and fashion

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and I guess if you're high-up at the vatican you're allowed to secks them or something

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French Napoleonic, as well as WW1

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Preußen

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Frederick's Prussia

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Winged Hussars of Poland

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Not a Naziboo by any means, but the pre-war SS guard uniforms are god-tier.

>>1512601
France up until Napoleon III

>>1512653
i got a shitload of notsi loot that my grandpa napoleon (no fake, that was his name) and granpa jean brough back from europe. few helmets, couple officer hats, a swastika armband and a hitler youth armband, couple knives and a bayonet. i should play dress up tonight

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>>1512653
Their uniforms were simply top tier.

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>>1512601

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>>1512653
I'm sure that's one of the biggest reasons that there are Naziboos

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No competition. Conquering europe never looked more stylish

>>1512678
I'd like to think it would be over something as banal as that, but nah /pol/ has shown me otherwise.

>>1512660
noice
keep that shit man, don't let it get out of family possession.

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>>1512601
how is this even a question? The god-damned Wehrmacht did.

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>>1512698
can't tell if that's the front or the back

that look came around again during the late 80s if i recall

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>>1512709
Agreed.

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>>1512708
i never would! when grandpa nap died his two sons split the loot which is actually kinda sad in a way, because the collection is now disjointed between two totally separate families now. i don't even know what they got, probably all kinds of crazy shit. he had his whole footlocker full. i ended-up with all the helmets and stuff i mentioned though. my brother, being smart, opted to not split the collection again between him and myself, and just told me to hang onto it and look after it on behalf of the ƒam. it's nice to have it all in one place and available for everyone to come check-out of they want. also... while i'm talking about it, i have my grampa jean's harmonica.

his father (my great grandpa) immigrated to america from italy in the early 1900s when he was about 8 years old. his dad had bought him a swiss harmonica for the voyage. when he was 18 he was drafted to fight in europe in WWI, and he brought the harmonica back to europe with him for two years. survived the war, came home and got married and had his own family. his son (my grandpa) got drafted to fight in WWII - brought the now ~40yr old harmonica BACK to europe, invaded berlin, survived, and returned to the US. he got married and had his two daughters, the harmonica hadn't been seen since the 50s or 60s. when my grandmother finally died in 2007 my mom found it again in a drawer - having not seen it for decades and thinking it was gone. now i have it. it's over 100 years old, my great great grandpa, great grandpa, and grandpa all played it and it survived both world wars.

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>>1512726
>>1512709
>>1512678
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>>1512653
>Liking the most generic uniforms ever created

>>1512768
The reason they seem generic is because most post WWII militaries based their uniforms on that style.

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the less the best

penis sheath and feather headdress

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>>1512808
the pænis sheath is great for keeping insects, leeches, and parasitic bladderfluke out of your junk but it just doesn't seem battle-ready to me.

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i wish we had ordered more napalm

>>1512850
when my dad got home from 'gnam he put his uniform in a chest and never ever wanted to wash it, or even take it out, for years. it was covered in stink and mud and agent orange and he wanted, someday, to smell that horrible smell again and keep it forever so others could be sickened by it as well. whelp, one day when he was at college getting his degree on his well-earned GI bill his daft mother ran it through the wash. she said it stunk to high hell when she opened the case and thought it needed to be washed. even the day she died he still hadn't forgiven her for that one. still has his boots though, still caked in the rice patty mud/sewerage mix of Bac Lieu, but he says it's not the same

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>>1512601
Belgium early WW1

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Italian colonial forces had some of the neatest, if most archaic, uniforms.

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Sino-Japanese War, both sides.

>>1513008
>Oh fuck oh fuck am I wearing pants?
>Shit fuck too late BANZAIIIIII

>>1512850
Obligatory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40JmEj0_aVM

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>>1512850
Early Vietnam USMC was pretty cool.

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How can Sassenachs even compete

hmm dude it depwnds more on centurys but through the all time naziis uniforms are more elegant

>>1512783
Literally the only country to do that was East Germany.

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Romanian, 1903!

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Really like those Anzac military uniforms with the sloped hats

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>>1513244
idunno about the kiwis but the strayan defense force still wear the slouch hat. i kinda want one but i feel like it's a bit inappropriate in a way

>>1513227
SUMMON

>>1513072
taft is a hottie

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>>1513359
>not even noticing jemison

>>1513288
THE

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Always had a thing about the uniforms during the American civil war. Each state had their own thing going.

>>1513251
How so?

>>1513432
the people who wear them are serving in the defense of their nation. kinda feels pissweak to just put one on for yuks. it's their uniform. they wear it because it's their uniform and a part of their tradition. i don't wanna be a poseur.

>>1513415
>Each State.
Actually down to the unit level.

The American Military System of the time was reliant on volunteer militias raised at the state level. However, if you came with your own uniforms/weapons youre free to bring them with you and that is what happened, as there were many militias that were privately founded, usually funded and outfitted by:
1) A particular city's elite.
2) A Rich Man who happens to have war for his hobby.
3) An association of private individuals who pooled their resources to get uniforms and equipment to form a militia.
4) Neighborhoods and small towns.

After electing their own officers (for militias founded by the Rich, the Richfags were the officers while those who joined were the grunts automatically), these men, with their own ideas of uniform (and sometimes weaponry) showed up at State Musters and were subsequently absorbed into the State Army.

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This is the uniform that George Patton wanted American tank crews to go to war in.

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>Once as the division was maneuvering around Fort Benning, a visiting staff officer from Washington went down to the C.P. to observe. An eager staff officer offered to outline the manuever and situation on the map. "No, don't bother about that," said the visiting general. "We just came down to have a look at Georgie's uniform."

>>1513468
Holy shit I always wondered what it looked like when he described it in the movie, but never actually looked it up. Actually doesn't look as dumb as I thought it would.

>>1513468
Very soviet looking and looks way too much like a dress uniform than a utility uniform that should be for soaking up dirt, grease, and sweat in a tank.

>>1513468
frankly it looks like something a USAF/NASA labmonkey would be forced to wear for photo ops

>>1512660
DO ITT!!

>>1512783
Apart from all the other countries with their own military histories.
Srsly, I don't get how SS uniforms don't get flak for being edgy af, black, silver and skulls just looks pleb regardless of who's wearing them.

>>1513502
The German bear skin, 'totenkoff'?, of the deaths head hussars was pretty balling

>>1513511
Yeah but wasn't that the Prussian thing?

>>1513541
No it was used by Imperial and Weimar Germany and by the panzer troops.

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>>1512726
>Trousers above the navel
>Black/White/Shitstain is only choice of color
>Best fashion ever !

White people.

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>>1512668
>Having a buttplug on your helmet
Aside from that, Preußen all the way!

>>1513738
Wait what are we saying, I thought I said that SS gear was pretty plebby, you brought up the Totenkopf, and I said it was originally a Prussian state, not nation-wide German thing?

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What do you think ?

>>1512601
The French were the most consistent up until WW1 that's for sure.

>>1513385
ELECTOR

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Not sure why I like it that much, I guess because the feather pattern seems rushing to the eagle helmet

>>1512653
How heavy would a jacket like the guy holding the middle launcher be?

>>1514080
>middle launcher

I'm assuming you're talking about the Panzershreck in the top right under winter uniforms.

If i know my german history, i''m guessing its more like a trench coat and not all that warm

>>1512601
What country is that? The Netherlands?

>>1513791
COUNTS

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Napoleonic era french cavalry
Nothing beats that except maybe ss

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>>1515243
That's not Napoleonic era. Those are Cuirassiers in 1913 for the Bastille day parade.

>>1513747
>having such shit taste
Nigger.

>>1513765
ehre preußens

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>>1514060

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>>1514060
This one too

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>>1516298
>>1516311

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>>1516323
did Aztec war priests really went to battlefield like this?

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>>1516334
Most war priest looked like the guy in the middle with the hat but the most skilled ones were coyote warriors

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>>1516398
The black one is the coyote warrior, sometimes they were white instead of black

>>1516398
fug, that's a warrior priest? I thought those were the Cuextecatl soldiers

>>1516413
Yes, like I said, those were the least skilled. They had not taken too many war captives to sacrifice.

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Looks Toltec to me

>>1513415
Clinch Rifles must've had serious friendly fire issues

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Oldschool Chinese commie uniforms were pretty cool.

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First Empire

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Inca apuskipay aka commander-in-chief

>>1512707
looks like someone got their fee fees hurt on /pol/

>>1517327
they really weren't

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>>1512601
Hawai'ian warriors.

>>1517822
They had a phalanx?

>>1517825
The Hawai'ians were the only Polynesian culture with enough of a populace and infrastructure to fight in massive formations. And they did, in pike phalanxes when they weren't skirmishing or champion-fighting. The picture in my first post was the Battle of Nu'uanu, and it involved between 10k-16k on King Kamehameha's side alone. We don't know how many men fought for Kalanikupule.

>>1513747
>not wanting the support of high rise trousers

in all seriousness, though, high rise trousers are very comfy

>>1517829
Thats really cool anon, any other images on the subject?

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>>1517849
You'd be surprised how difficult it is to find. Not a lot of Americans care, since America did a much worse job of preserving it's Polynesians than, say, New Zealand did when they took it over.

I'll post what I can, but it's honestly not a lot. Mostly artist renditions, and not nearly of the quality of the Nu'uanu battle above.

As a Hawai'ian, what America's allowed to die is really shameful. My old man was from the generation immediately after the language was allowed back in schools, so I wasn't even properly taught when the Navy determined that most of my life would be seen on the mainland.

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>>1517867

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>>1517869
The first ever Hawai'ian-owned cannon were owned by Kamehameha, and he had them stolen right off the trader's ship--either by Koa Warriors or by professional thieves, we're still not sure which.

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>>1517871

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>>1517873
Sea battles could be pretty vicious. One favored weapon of Hawai'ian marines was the "hoa," or oar with a sharpened head. So you didn't have to waste time reaching for a new weapon when battle was joined, as Hawai'ian warriors crewed their ocean-travel-capable canoes.

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>>1517876
I'll actually close off my little dump with a picture of warriors from our sister culture: the Maori. Out of all the Polynesian cultures, Hawai'ians tend to be most like the Maori, Samoa, and Tahitians. The Maori in particular were known for being fierce warriors, but my personal bias would tell you to look up some stuff on the Koa--our own brand of stone-age special forces.

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>>1517327
They are, but every time I look at them, I'm reminded of pic related so it sort of ruins it for me

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Early 1900s brits or late war germans
>fuck you *le snazzy military man* bullshit

>>1513468
Holy shit

>>1513478
>dress uniform than a utility uniform that should be for soaking up dirt, grease, and sweat in a tank.
George Patton was literally that kind of officer that will shit on you for not being in proper attire.

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>>1517327
Nah. In terms of modern chinese uniforms.
Beiyang > KMT Kitbash > Warlords > CCP

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>>1512601
Late 19th century/early 20th century US uniforms had a nice ruffian aesthetic to them.

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Simply and convenient

>>1513468
that looks fucking ugly

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>>1512601

>>1515455
Pretty much the same, the trousers were white originally, not a lot of change there, cuirassiers stayed like that up until now pretty much, the armor an helm are timeless.

>>1519210
Looks like bandits

>>1519210
Made for losers, armies that look like bandits do not achieve more than other bandits in history.

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The US Army dress uniforms from 1902 is one of my favorites. Simple yet sharp and elegant. Its a travesty how ugly the Army Dress Blues are now in comparison.

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>>1520587
these "bandits" forced to take a shit Russian Empire, Rzeczpospolita, Osmans and Tatars for a couple of centuries. And yeah they were in some kind bandits, but badass bandits with their own country

And now see not "looking bandit" army, yeah it looked like army but...)

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>>1517864

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>>1513415

>live in Louisiana
>big fuss every year about removing more and more of our confederate monuments ect
>mfw no one realizes the LSU Tigers are named after the Tiger Battalion

>>1512808
That's my penis sheath that guy's carrying.

>>1512926
>so others could be sickened by it as well
Well, worked like a charm.

>>1520587
Armies don't achieve anything other than defeating others.

>>1512744
Can you play?

>>1513436
Nonsense. I work outside and wear a slouch hat every day in the summer.

>>1517858
Thank you hawaii bro. I'm a massive hawaiiboo kind Kalakaua is my kingfu

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Boer Wars uniforms were pretty fashionable.

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>>1512601
>what military had the best uniforms and fashion

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

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of course the bavarian mountain riflemen, south of Munich and that´s why the beer will be always safe: Böller auf!

>>1517882
Polynesians are based.

>>1512663
>>1512666
Family album? Please post more

>>1513251
noice!

>>1513774

Rhodesia/10

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>>1515242
THIS

>>1512638
>>1522201
I find the large loops rather ugly desu.

>>1512601
>>1512638
>>1512645
>>1512647
>>1512653
>>1512666 (checked)
>>1512678
>>1512686
>>1512726
>>1512709
>>1512817
>>1513148
>>1515243
>>1517407
>>1521238
>>1522201
>>1526271
>>1528165
The rest of you are having a fucking laff.
-1 if your hat is fucking stupid.
-1 if it looks like something you stole from someone down on their luck in an alley.
I'd give props to Koa's for the hat's an colors, but I don't think they honestly had much to work with, being just a hat, cape, and loin cloth.

>>1526245
Possibly the worst in the thread so far.

>>1517900
I hate it that that guy lives in portland oregon

>>1513765
ehre preußens

>>1513468
Ensign, set course to Moscow with a detour by the Berlin cluster. Engage.

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>>1528165
This
Landsknechts are awesome

>>1513120
chile did it too iirc

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late ottoman empire was pretty cool

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The Swiss Guard

>>1516323
>ywn wear a real jaguar onesie

why even live?

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>>1512601

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>>1513077

>>1530644
No they based their uniforms on Prussia/Imperial Germany.

>>1525593
only a little. i bought a book and practiced awhile back though. the harmonica is pretty old and out of tune these days but i bought a cheep one to practice on.

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Looked through the whole thread for some Ottoman Classical Era soldiers and not found even one.One on the right is a sipahi,a type mounted soldier which was the backbone of Ottoman armies till 17th and 18th century.Other two are janisarries.

>>1532115
What's Rhodesia problem with pants? Why did they wear shorts for combat?

>>1533255
>ottoman empire
>product diversification

>>1533279
>see white skin
>know it's an ally
>see pants or black skin
>shoot with FAL

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>>1533363
Black people did fight in the Rhodesian army though. In fact Rhodesia had an all black regiment called the Rhodesian African Rifles.

>>1533397
Wasn't most of the rhodesian army members of tribes not aligned with mugabe or that other guy. The whites were always a tiny minority

>>1533363
The Rhodesian Light Infantry banned wearing shorts on operations because of the visibility of their white legs.

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Late Meiji Era uniforms from about the Sino-Japanese War up to the Russo-Japanese war are some of my favorites.