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World War I
The First World War
finally put an end to the expensive practice of furnishing colourful
uniforms to all ranks of the various armies. Amongst the frontline
troops of the combatant powers in August 1914 only the Belgian and
French armies saw active service in bright colours and old fashioned
headgear (although the Austro-Hungarian cavalry retained their blue and
red uniforms for field wear after the remainder of the army had gone
into pike grey in 1909). The Imperial German field grey of 1910
retained a number of traditional features such as spiked helmets,
shakos, busbies and coloured piping from the older uniforms. The
demands of modern warfare soon saw these survivals vanish and by 1916
all involved armies were in either khaki (Russia, Turkish, Serbia, Montenegro, Japan, Greek, French colonial and Britain), various shades of grey (German, Italian, Bulgarian, Portuguese, and Austro-Hungarian)
or sky blue (French and Romanian). The coloured uniforms of peacetime
were often relegated to depot wear by recruits doing their basic
training.
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