Boy scout uniform
Category
Costume
Date
circa 1910
Materials
Wool.
Measurements
750 mm (length)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 661990
Summary
A shirt belonging to a Boy Scout uniform of about 1910. It belonged to Reginald Frederick Yarnell, the father of the donor. It is made of very rough khaki-coloured woollen fabric, has long sleeves with buttons at the cuffs, buttoning epaulettes, and a button-down collar at the top of the front opening, the lower end of which is almost at waist level, i.e. about halfway down the shirt. There are many felt achievement badges sewn to the shirt, some sewn to pieces of green felt first - nine on the right sleeve, three on the left, plus 'Be Prepared' on the left. At the top of the right sleeve are two white embroidered labels, reading 'Leicester' and 'Y.M.C.A'. Above this, sewn over the end of the epaulette, is a green label embroidered in brown with the image of a fox. There are two pleated breast pockets on the shirt, with flaps. On the right-hand flap is a red felt badge embroidered in gold-coloured thread with 'War Service 100 days'. Above the flap is a red cotton badge mounted on green felt and embroidered in gold-coloured thread with '1914'. In the centre of each of these badges is embroidered a crown in gold and black. Above the left-hand flap is a green felt circle with a gold-coloured metal star-shaped 'paper fastener' through it. Inside the back of the collar is small white label embroidered with a '5' in red.