Sunday 4 October 2009

Casquette d'Afrique - origins of the kepi

Before the kepi there was the Casquette d'Afrique - the type of headgear worn by some of the Chasseurs d'Afrique -generally worn from the early 1830s to the 1860s.


Casquette d'Afrique du maréchal Bugeaud
reign of Louis-Philippe (1830-1848)

Casquettes d'Afrique
par le capitaine Hecquet ; vers 1833




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