Every type of state force and public order in one place — 9 chapters, Army, Navy, Air force and the rest, with the plates and an inventory to download.
Between the wars, military tailoring did what architecture was doing: stripped ornament, raised the waist, simplified the silhouette to something a factory could cut.
Forty pieces of insignia at one magnification. Arranged not by seniority but by visual grammar: everything that signals by repetition, then by metal, then by position on the body.
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Every Research post and every Essay, free to read.
All Research posts — one uniform at a time, in archive photographs
