23 Facts About Side cap

Side cap is a military cap that can be folded flat when not being worn.

In form the side cap is comparable to the glengarry, a folding version of the Scottish military bonnet.

Field service Side cap was originally adopted army-wide in 1939, and replaced in 1943 by a khaki beret.

The coloured field service Side cap was a variant permitted for private purchase and worn only when off duty.

Personnel who wear air force uniform, the blue wedge Side cap is authorized for wear with all orders of dress, save for the combat uniform.

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The Side cap worn by general officers is embellished with silver piping.

Wedge Side cap is the official headdress of the Royal Canadian Air Force Association and the Royal Canadian Air Cadets.

In Portuguese service, the side cap is known as barrete de bivaque and often referred simply as bivaque.

Second model is a pointed Side cap and is used by the Portuguese Army and by the National Republican Guard.

The garrison Side cap was the standard dress headgear for women in all of the Russian armed services, until replaced in March 2017 by the world-standard female peaked Side cap.

The Glengarry was replaced for officers of most non-Scottish units by a Side cap called the "torin", which was worn from circa 1884 until 1896, when it too was replaced by a style for all ranks known as the "Austrian Side cap", which had a fold-down arrangement, giving the appearance when unfolded of a balaclava, thus warming the ears and back of the neck.

The Austrian Side cap was then replaced by an entirely different style of head dress in 1902 and so went into abeyance from general usage, although officers continued to wear them as a private purchase item of undress uniform.

In 1937, a khaki field service Side cap, described in an amendment to the Dress Regulations for the Army that year as "similar in shape to the Glengarry" was introduced as the "universal pattern field service Side cap", and saw extensive service during World War II as a head dress to be worn with Battledress when steel helmets were not required.

Since the universal introduction of the beret in 1947, the field service Side cap continued as an optional officer's accessory to be worn in barrack and mess dress.

The Torin style of Side cap is still worn by the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment and the Royal Dragoon Guards.

The overseas Side cap could be stored easily when the helmet was being worn.

Additionally, starting in World War II military parachutists and glider-born forces wore an Airborne Insignia on their garrison Side cap—enlisted wore them on the left while officers wore them on the right.

Overseas Side cap was first issued to Marines in France in early 1918.

The Marine officer's garrison cap, unlike those of the Army or Air Force, does not have metallic piping; the only items distinguishing it from the enlisted cap is the placement of small officer's rank insignia on the right side of the cap and the style of the Eagle, Globe and Anchor insignia on the left.

The Side cap is serge and is authorized with Tropical Blue, the Winter Dress Blue, and Service Dress Blue uniform.

Blue flight Side cap is the most common headgear worn with the US Air Force's service dress or "blues" uniform.

The flight Side cap is worn by members of the Civil Air Patrol in a manner appropriate to their rank.

In Serbian, the side cap is known as and was introduced to Serbian soldiers in 1870.