|
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
|
#1
|
||||
|
||||
Plastic or Metal buckles on caps
Can anyone please tell me when plastic as opposed to metal buckles were introduced in British caps? have a bit of a collection, mainly Guards, and all fairly modern just wondered?
Thanks Alli |
#2
|
||||
|
||||
I saw some British police caps with usual plastic strap but with black plastic buckles instead of metal about 10-12 years ago, but I haven't seen army caps with plastic buckles
|
#3
|
||||
|
||||
It's a sort of rubbery plastic but the majority are metal.
And what about leather chinstraps, when were they phased out? |
#4
|
||||
|
||||
I had leather and metal in the late 1960s, with a tall wired cap, then when I had to have a new (soft) cap in the 1970s it came with a plastic strap and buckles.
Marc |
#5
|
||||
|
||||
That's interesting Marc, probably my oldest cap dates from 1978 and is a Household Cavalry khaki, buttoned to Life Guards with a leather strap and metal buckle.
|
#6
|
||||
|
||||
Different situation with the khaki SD caps I suppose, brown straps (same width?) with brass fittings as opposed to the black straps with blackened metal fittings.
I've never seen, as in never bought, an army cap with plastic strap buckles, they're new to me. |
#7
|
||||
|
||||
I was issued a 'Cap Royal' 6¾" with Scarlet Band & Piping of the soft top variety in April 1970 and it came with a black plastic chin strap with plastic adjuster buckle (this was a separate item along with 2 small RAOC buttons and Cap Badge) while some were issued with the stiffer wired cap in different sizes, but all with the plastic strap as far as I can remember.
|
#8
|
||||
|
||||
RMP on duty on Craigavon Bridge, L'Derry. Easter Sunday March 1978.
Two chinstraps worn. |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|