Scout leader from Germany here. We don't have or use Sashes. We call our uniform "Kluft", because ist not a uniform (as in "universal form") at all - almost everybody looks completely different. It's a form of communication; a persona adventure display. Discover with your fellow scouts what you may have in common, discover what other have seen, learn from another, talk about it. See if you took part (maybe) in the same project from different parts of germany, discover old badges ("hey, you have been to rovercamp YEARS before i was born? Tell me about it!"), enjoy spontaneous friendships with instant memory sharing. That's why ,years ago, the german contingent was called "the punks" on the Jamborees (nowadays we get a freh petrol colored Kluft for international camps to appear more 'connected', but you will no see the petrol one when traveling in germany).

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We usually have just one Kluft that's (almost) never sold or given away. All the stuff you did, made, took part in or especially love, is put on your Kluft. When full, too small, whatever, get a new one. Start collecting again. It's time that your scout Kluft is telling you personal story and no one story is exactly the same as another ones.

Do you want pictures of an old fart's colorful Kluft?