Colback Chasseur a Cheval De La Garde French Imperial Guard Busby

Colback Chasseur a Cheval De La Garde – complete with plume

Custom Made Colback – we are specialists in constructing historically accurate and well-made military head-dress. Completely bespoke exactly to your requirements…

Custom Made French Hussars Colback 

We carry a small selection of hats permanently in stock. It is best to contact us directly with your request and queries because we tailor each hat to the customer.  From the construction materials right down to the interior lining. 

Please note: if required the design of the hat can be altered in any way you choose

• Made to measure in any size
• Come complete with a plume
• Fur can be combed to lay flat or sit up (spiky)

We can make any historical hat!

Full Design Studio


Full design studio service to offer customers tailor-made items for special events, Send us photographs or draw us a sketch and we can re-create your vision into reality. If we are supplied with enough material to work from we can reproduce any given project very accurately. All our clothing is manufactured with great care and to the highest standards of workmanship. Choose from our range of high-quality reenactment clothing, military jackets, professional impersonators costumes, We can replicate near or less anything…

Colback Chasseur a Cheval – The Jacket Shop UK

Busby or Colback is a fur headpiece that is of Turkish origin. The Colback usually had a plume at the front. The Colback was worn by officers, elite companies of hussars, and chasseurs in the French army. Under Napoleon during the French Directory and the First French Empire…

The Chasseurs à Cheval de la Garde Impériale (Translated into English means: Light Cavalry of the Imperial Guard) constituted a light cavalry regiment in the Consular, then Imperial Guard during the French Consulate and First French Empire respectively.

 

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