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28th November 09, 05:20 AM
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Your jacket is wonderful! I also appreciate the fact that you went to the trouble of having white turnovers on your red&white diced hose, an interesting and perhaps unique feature of the 79thNY's uniform.
Obviously you haven't yet aquired the distinctive, unique 79thNY glen with the two-row dicing.
I of course went though this process myself. For the shoes, what's closest is to get some modern wing-tip tassel loafers, remove the tassels, and put on the buckles. The 79thNY's shoes were NOT like 18th century shoes, but the typical Highland 19th century style I call "buckle loafers", a style which no longer seems to exist in Highland dress.
Getting the exact shoe buckle shape seemed impossible until I happened upon the Scottish company MacKenzie-Frain. They have the EXACT shoe buckles, rectangles with rounded edges.
For the kilt, you'll need a five or six yard kilt pleated neither to the stripe nor to the tartan but somewhat randomly pleated like the originals.
You can order the exact correct 1858-1861 prewar 79thNY sporran from L&M Highland Outfitters in Canada. They made mine, according to plans drawn from the original in the Gettyburg museum. This sporran is NOT the one pictured on the L&M website: that one is the postwar 1870's style, which has been ripped off and is being made in India and sold on Ebay fairly cheaply. If you can't pony up the $300 plus for the prewar style you could get one of the Ebay Indian postwar ones for around $150. In any case it's a white sporran with three black tails, NOT a black sporran with two white tails. It twists MY tail when people mix up the uniform of the 79thNy with that of the 79th Highlanders of Scotland. The two uniforms were competely different in every respect save for the tartan itself.
Here's my kit, followed by two famous photos of the REAL prewar 1858-1861 79thNY full dress uniform:
Last edited by OC Richard; 28th November 09 at 05:27 AM.
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