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Old 25-03-21, 11:38 AM
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Default Officers' Service Dress Caps

For my research on British Army Wartime Headdress for the Military Historical Society I have been reading John Bodsworth's excellent book on Service Dress.

This includes lots of detailed dress instructions issued by regiments to officers and the regimental tailors, several of which describe the approved version of the service dress cap as being of the Flexolyte (or Flexilite, Flexelite - there are several variations) but I have no idea what this means.

It may be a trade name but it is often referred to in connection with various regimental hatters whose products would be likely to vary.

Can anyone shed any light on this?

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Jon,
Would that be the material in the peak? A sort of hardened but flexible fibre?

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My first thought was some new type of plastic ?

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From Dress Regulations for the Army 1934:

29. Cap, Service Dress -
(a) Stiff pattern, of the same shape as the forage cap but of drab material to match the service dress; brown leather chin-strap; two bronze buttons.
(b) Soft pattern, of the same shape as the stiff pattern, but with a flexible peak, and not wired around the top of the cap.

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