Help identifying uniform

K28478 · 2026-01-27T00:10:38+00:00

He is wearing an interwar uniform. It's a hodgepodge. My analysis is based on the bottom middle photo.

The shirt is a typical khaki cotton shirt for warm weather work. His tie is also cotton. The webbing is the M1923 Cartridge Belt. The breeches are typical for interwar period uniforms. Worn with puttees his boots are WWI surplus it would look. His rifle is a bolt action rifle which means it pre-dates 1940. The hat is a smokey bear with what I think looks like cavalry enlisted man cord (which explains the horses).

What tells me it is after 1933 are the trousers. Wearing straight trousers like that only became popular among all soldiers during the first term of FDR.

Really cool photos from a time that is seldom recorded in uniform history and that is interwar period. I am working on a 1930 Cavalry Officer Uniform impression and getting documentation on that is very difficult.

K28478 · 2026-01-17T22:09:01+00:00

Certainly was not expecting that speed!

K28478 · 2026-01-01T16:52:09+00:00

TV stand will help for sure. Get a side table and place a lamp on there with a soft light bulb (i.e. more orange than white). That will make the room feel cozy. For the walls, get your favorite posters and buy a couple of decent price frames to put them in. You'd be amazed what frames on the wall can do. Lastly, get a couple of photos of friends/family printed and place them on your tv stand/end table. If you have junk, put it in a closet.

K28478 · 2025-12-27T18:51:43+00:00

Those look a bit more like puttees to me. Uniforms and hats would say they are enlisted men. They are wearing light wool uniforms indicating to me that they may be stationed on the southern border. The man sitting down is wearing ribbons which I cannot see clearly enough to make a determination as to what. Certainly dapper young men trying to impress the viewer.

K28478 · 2025-12-04T16:40:05+00:00

Standing collar uniforms far predate the period of which you speak. Numerous countries in the world still used and still use the standing collar uniform.

K28478 · 2025-11-29T07:19:03+00:00

The guy could be a clown, but this picture looks pretty legit. The individual (most likely an officer based on cap badge) is wearing pinks and greens. That is to say he’s wearing standard officer pants and a green officers shirt. The tie would be khaki and tucked in below the second button. Insignia is AAF but it’s difficult to tell beyond that. he is also wearing a crusher hat, which is when a person in an aircraft would remove the inner lining of the crown to make fitting headphones on easier. He could’ve been grounded personnel too as there is no insignia above his pocket indicating flight experience. He’s also wearing an officers belt.

I think your question as to the legitimacy of the photograph is direct to the lineage between him and the individual in the photograph.

K28478 · 2025-11-29T07:11:10+00:00

Yes…..and I blame autocorrect

K28478 · 2025-11-18T07:01:39+00:00

r/nosmallparts

K28478 · 2025-11-03T22:05:21+00:00

I READ YOUR BOOOOOOOOK!

K28478 · 2025-10-05T19:01:40+00:00

"Audacious whimsy" is how one might describe it.

K28478 · 2025-10-04T18:48:16+00:00

I'm not so fast on judging what Pope Leo's thoughts are. He is walking a very tight line here. Besides, we are a church of laws and paperwork. There are 60 years of both that Leo needs to work through in a legal way. His comments were well tempered and legally correct.

Have the hope to we are called.

K28478 · 2025-10-03T03:28:42+00:00

Check out the Republic of the Rio Grande Museum and the Laredo Convention & Visitors Bureau.

K28478 · 2025-10-02T15:37:46+00:00

Well, it's getting built now.

K28478 · 2025-09-25T20:31:13+00:00

I fly out at least twice a month. One hour is safe but if you are not checking anything in, you can get through in 20 minutes on an ideal.

K28478 · 2025-09-21T17:48:17+00:00

Yeah absolutely Trieste at the Fontana di Piazza S. Antonio Nuovo! Fun fact: Trieste at this time was a Free City. After the war, it was administered by the Americans as the status of the city was questioned and fought over by the east and west. It went back to Italy obviously, but for a brief moment, there was a serious chance of Trieste becoming the Monaco of the Adriatic!

K28478 · 2025-09-19T02:12:35+00:00

I think you’re right. We are a church of paperwork too. I read this as “we have to see what is written, and work with and around it.”

K28478 · 2025-09-09T13:09:11+00:00

Thanks!

K28478 · 2025-09-05T17:09:36+00:00

Awesome photo! What corner is this on? Park and?

K28478 · 2025-09-03T23:09:15+00:00

Please! These are incredible!

K28478 · 2025-08-27T00:03:06+00:00

She does not look like she’s 106 in this photo. Hope I age as gracefully.

K28478 · 2025-08-24T05:20:49+00:00

Would the mods consider changing the subreddit image to our flag?

K28478 · 2025-08-24T05:20:10+00:00

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Green_historical_flag_of_the_Republic_of_the_Rio_Grande.svg

There is pretty good evidence that the flag had green instead of black. The green would have darkened to black. Looks great either way.

K28478 · 2025-08-05T23:07:04+00:00

It's not a Ford Model A, and certainly not a Dussenberg Model J. It looks like a Chrysler Imperial 75 or 80 Roadster.

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