#bearskin cap

[chubachus]

Portrait of a British Army drummer serving with the Grenadier Guards, c. 1856. By Joseph Cundall.

Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[kingedwardviii]

"I took special pride in the uniform of the Brigade of Guards, whose most distinctive feature is the famous bearskin cap. Oddly enough this is not as uncomfortable a form of headgear as might be supposed, once it is properly "broken in" to the head. I used to keep my head "in training" for the bearskin, by wearing it in moments of leisure and privacy during weekends at the Fort" - Windsor Revisited by HRH The Duke of Windsor.