My next tournament: coolest military uniforms.
 

I won't start this until after the Smellympics is over, but it occurs to me that we've never identified the coolest-looking military uniform ever.

Give me some options for a tournament. Any era, any nation. Different styles can be offered too - for example, dress uniforms versus field uniforms or whatever. You can also distinguish an officer's uniform or enlisted uniform specifically. You can also identify differentiate different time periods, so if someone else offers a 1920s New Guinea navy uniform and you think the 1950s version was superior, you can offer it as a different option.

The rule is that you have to provide a picture of that uniform and identify it (nation and era), and the picture has to be of a reasonable size - maybe 300x300 up to 500x500.

ghey.

Stormtroopers.

Do ninja uniforms count bc I vote for that if so
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Female wrestlers uniforms and strippers uniforms... on the floor, by the pole.

catholic school girl uniforms!!!

French maid uniforms!!

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Cross-forum repost: http://forums.military.com/eve/forum.../7310030101001

There are some ideas in there.

Samurai (Japanese) Armor (15th-17th Century)

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j8...n/20d091a3.jpg

Thread over.

http://www.spacestation.carolan.info...s_officers.jpg http://www.spacestation.carolan.info...r-ss-sentr.jpghttp://www.spacestation.carolan.info/ss.jpg

I'm going to go with

SS Officer - Germany - 1938

http://i44.tinypic.com/kbc9l3.jpg

USMC Dress uniforms are the sharpest looking I've ever seen.

the Nazis were assholes, but they were snappy dressers

These are pretty cool.

http://londontravelogue.files.wordpr...d-ceremony.jpg

Do the Canadian Mounties count?

Napoleonic France

http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/8...rmeesample.jpg

Uniforms used in the French-Indian War are really cool.

http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/6154/fi20british.jpg

Here is the site where I got those illustrations from:

http://reeseartofwars.com/

Good question. Are they law enforcement or military? I'd guess law enforcement, in which case they're out, unless maybe they're some special branch like the Coast Guard or something in the U.S.


I don't know if the picture is legit, but Roman legionnaire uniforms are neat.

http://thumb11.shutterstock.com.edge...ay-3081541.jpg

http://www.logosoftwear.com/embroide...ior.EZ2673.jpg
The true :arrow: answer.

Every time this comes up someone posts a picture of that nazi motorcycle uniform where every part of the soldiers skin is covered in leather. It's elaborate with a capital E, and I reiterate their godless behavior and ideology, and still marvel at the high style uniform.

That picture is the winner of this contest.

Archive gurus, get to it.

http://images.buycostumes.com/mgen/m...iser/17133.jpg

France 1913 - present

poll is down to two

Only the Nazis could have their officers wear dresses and look good doing it

Swiss Guard. :D


http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/med...he-vatican.jpg

http://www.traditioninaction.org/His...-7_1994009.jpg

http://www.frpaulnewton.com/Swiss_Guard_Line-up.jpg

http://www.wdtprs.com/images/06_05_06_recruits_sm.jpg
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Heavy horsemen in burnished plate and angel wings spearing people in the face?

Polish Winged Hussars

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SgRlM0sDWJ...400/Hussar.jpg

Yea, as an Army vet I hate to admit it but the Marines dress blues are sharp.

http://www.ww2gyrene.org/assets/uniform_blues7.jpg

Marines dress blues are pretty obviously the best the US has to offer. They are superb.


Especially with a few irreverent modifications.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/117/2...17be32094d.jpg

(sorry, was looking for various pics and came across this one) :D

this

No need to apologize for that. :thumb:

Gladiator

Yeah those damn Nazis knew how to dress.

yeah, these were pretty awesome.

The all-black dress uniform of the Nazi Schutzstaffel or SS (the NSDAP paramilitary and military force), in use from 1932 until 1942, was designed by SS-Oberführer Prof. Dr. Karl Diebitsch and graphic designer Walter Heck.[2] From 1933, the Hugo Boss company was one of the firms that produced these black uniforms along with the brown SA shirts and the black-and-brown uniforms of the Hitler Youth.[3][4]

From Wikipedia