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The Snake and Clarence Potter
Topic Started: Feb 15 2008, 05:50 PM (1,614 Views)
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Nice pics of Snake and Potter. I always imagined Potter and Confed officers wearing floppy hats rather than garrison caps though. And in my mind for some reason, Potter, in the beginning of GW2, had a beard until the poison gas started hitting...then it is time to shave it off so your gasmask can properly seal to your face.
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The Snake himself wore a floppy hat but I never got the impression that he made anyone else do it.
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There were one or two passages that described rank and file Confederate soldiery during the Great War wearing slouch hats, while officers wore visored caps, either kepis or peaked caps.
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Freedom Party guards in the camps wore Stetsons. Confederate officers in the Great War wore kepis. I don't remember reading a description of CS army head-gear (other than the modified helmets that replaced the old tin hats) in GWII. The uniforms in general changed but I don't remember what, if anything, he said about the hats.
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We know that CS general officers wore peaked caps in GWII.
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Depends on your definition of peaked cap. You're referring to the big round things worn by the I Dream of Jeanie characters, yes?
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The kind of cap Potter is wearing in the illustration in the first link in the first post in this thread.

It was also the kind of cap Hitler and German officers wore. And what police officers in various US cities wear.
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Thought so.

Shouldn't a peak refer to a single high point in the center, rather than an elevated ridge along the periphery?
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Hanged if I know how and why it got its name.
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Freedom Party guards in the camps wore Stetsons.

I recall a reference (or maybe several) to Freedom Party Guards wearing "jucier" (or maybe "juice squeezer") hats whatever the hell those are. This would be back at Camp Dependable.
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Makkabee
Jul 17 2008, 09:38 AM
Freedom Party guards in the camps wore Stetsons.

I recall a reference (or maybe several) to Freedom Party Guards wearing "jucier" (or maybe "juice squeezer") hats whatever the hell those are. This would be back at Camp Dependable.

Juice-squeezer hats = Stetsons and other wide-brimmed hats.
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A wide brim could make "juice squeezer" an apt description, but the Stetson is too broad on top to resemble a juice squeezer.
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Before Stetson got mentioned by name at Pinkard's wedding, I thought the Party Guardsmen wore the campaign hats like what US soldiers wore in the First World War, or what state troopers and national park service personnel wear nowadays.
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That could be a better fit.

Isn't a Stetson a little casual for what's supposed to be a super-intimidating secret police force?
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SladeJack
Jul 18 2008, 01:41 AM
Isn't a Stetson a little casual for what's supposed to be a super-intimidating secret police force?

But they're great for preventing heatstrokes while working in the harsh Texas sun.

I'd think the Party Guardsmen working in more confined areas, such as the bomb shelter under the Gray House, wore peaked caps.
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