Lampasse
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Lampasse(s) (German: Lampasse(n)) are trouser stripes adorning the dress uniforms of many armed forces, police, fire and other public uniformed services. In German-speaking countries the uniforms of general staff–qualified officers featured distinctive double-wide lampasses.[1]
For a comparable feature of civilian dress, see galloon.
Ancient Scythians often decorated the seams of their trousers with lampasse-like elements,[2] but the modern fad for lampasses originated in civilian fashion in the early years of the 19th century and soon passed into military use - by 1815 in Prussia, for example.
The lampasses of the General Staff–qualified officers up to colonel were in carmine. However general uniforms featured lampasses in corps colour (German: Waffenfarbe.), e.g. Air Force in Skyblue.
For general officers of the German Bundeswehr the tradition to use lampasses was given up[3] in 1956. However, general officers of the National People's Army, Volkspolizei and Stasi, as well as flag officers of the Volksmarine wore double-wide lampasses on uniform trousers in the appropriate corps colour until 1990.
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In Germany today the general officers of the Bundespolizei wear double-wide Lampasses in deep green. Since 2010 Lampasses are also worn by the police forces of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria (2017).
Historical examples
Red double-wide lampasses of the Wuerttemberg 3rd Kavalery-Regiment, 1825.
Red double-wide lampasses of the Prussian General officers.
Field Marshal Sir Henry Evelyn Wood VC, GCB, GCMG with gold-lampasses.
Mounted officer with red lampasses.
Friedrich Wilhelm III with red double-lampasses.
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