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  • #16
    Re: Tucking trousers

    Perhaps he just wanted to look hardkewl. :D

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    Guy W. Gane III
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    • #17
      Re: Tucking trousers

      Originally posted by Bob 125th NYSVI View Post
      I see little reason that what modern farmers do working horses would be substantially different than what 1860s farmers did.

      Do you wear high waisted, button front pants with seam or mule ear pockets and no back pockets when you farm ? How many of your friends do ?

      See where I am going with this ?

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      • #18
        Re: Tucking trousers

        Good point king crow. Farmers if wearing tall boots tuck in trousers to keep the cuff out of mud or manure. I would also note that they would be un- tucked if working hay or straw to keep the chaff from falling inside the boot.
        American military from any era seem to do what is comfortable and personally beneficial.

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        • #19
          Re: Tucking trousers

          Thanks to all for the info and images, I prefer to wear boots instead of brogans and i prefer to tuck them in, mostly for astetic reasons but i have noticed that bottoms of my trousers seem to last a lot loger than everyone elses. I also wondered if maybe they did that to disguise trousers that may have been issued too short or too long,
          Just a thought though.
          Rick Spencer
          19th U.S. infantry, The Rock Of Chickamauga!
          Ohio Valley Civil War Assoc.
          66th ill. Birge's Western Sharpshooters
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          • #20
            Re: Tucking trousers

            Originally posted by OldKingCrow View Post
            Do you wear high waisted, button front pants with seam or mule ear pockets and no back pockets when you farm ? How many of your friends do ?

            See where I am going with this ?
            Sytle and function are two different things (see where I'm going with this). Farmers tend to be functional NOT stylish because functional also has a safety component.

            So functionally "high waisted, button front pants with seam or mule ear pockets and no back pockets" are no different than cartharts or jeans. Furthermore the style of the pants have nothing to do whether or not you wear your pants tucked or not tucked or wear boots at all. Tucking or not tucking has nothing to do with whether or not the pants stay up.

            What you are talking is style.
            Bob Sandusky
            Co C 125th NYSVI
            Esperance, NY

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            • #21
              Re: Tucking trousers

              What is/isn't done or worn today is not always an accurate indicator of what was done then is where I was going. That is all.

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              • #22
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                Jerry: Tuck in, tuck in.

                George: Alright, so that's one tuck and one no-tuck.

                Lupe: Okay.

                George: Yeah. One second sweetheart. Jerry, I really think it'd be easier if
                you didn't tuck.

                Jerry: Excuse me, fine, you don't want me to tuck, put me down for a no-tuck.

                George (to Lupe): Two no-tucks.

                Jerry: Uh, hang on a second, You know what? Changed my mind, make it a tuck.

                George: You just said you weren't tucking.

                George: Alrighty, so. That's one tuck and one no-tuck. Got that?
                Patrick Rooney

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                • #23
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                  Odd, are those 63 springfields?
                  Christian Thomas,
                  The Salem Guard
                  Appalachian Possum Mess

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                  • #24
                    Re: Tucking trousers

                    Hallo!

                    Originally posted by Curt-Heinrich Schmidt View Post
                    Hallo!

                    Alas... the image that was posted has too low of resolution to blow up the detail I would like before making a commitment... ;) :)

                    The light bounce (refraction) is annoying, but yes, I would venture a guess that they are SM 1861's based upon the "serpentine" look of the hammers versus the look of M1863 hammers. The play of light varies gun to gun but I think I am seeing the SM 1861's more "curvy" hammer and the somewhat "egg shape" of the rear of the lock plate.

                    Curt
                    ;) :)

                    Curt
                    Curt Schmidt
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                    • #25
                      Re: Tucking trousers

                      I thought regulations were to wear pants over boots. Unit officers would dictate if they could be tucked???
                      Dennis Watson

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