and brushed in the open air. Russia leather parings, powdered camphor, naphtaline, carbolised paper, or turpentine sprinkled on brown paper, or on the garments, are good for the prevention of moth, and one or another of these preventatives should be placed amongst articles of uniform which are to be packed away for any time.
Before being packed away, gold lace, braid, cord or buttons on garments, should be covered with tissue paper, and then placed in tin lined air-tight cases. Care must be taken to use paper that is thoroughly dry. For the prevention of moth, the garments should be well aired and brushed before being packed.
GOLD LACE
Gold trimmings and gold lace that have become slightly tarnished can be cleaned with a mixture of cream of tartar and dry bread rubbed up very fine, applied in a dry state, and brushed lightly with a clean soft brush.
Another plan of cleaning tarnished gold lace is to apply turkey rhubarb with a soft brush. If it is dirty it should be dipped in a solution of potassium, but if this is used special care should be taken of it, as it is a strong poison.
SILVER LACE
To clean silver lace, wet it with plain magnesia applied with a soft brush.
REMOVING STAINS FROM SCARLET TUNICS OR FROCKS
In many cases stains may be removed by the part affected being rubbed with dry pipeclay and then well brushed with a clean brush. Should this fail to remove them the following mixture may be tried:—
- ⅓ ounce of salts of sorrel to ½ pint of boiling water.
- ⅓ ounce of cream of tartar to ½ pint of cold water
Each solution should be kept in a separate flat vessel.
These quantities will be sufficient to clean two or three garments.
The garment which requires cleaning should first be well beaten and brushed and a perfectly clean hard brush should be used in applying the solutions.
The solutions should be applied alternately, commencing with the salts of sorrel, until the garment has been washed all over, and all the stains removed.
If the weather permits, the cleaned garments should be hung up to dry; If not they should be hung in a dry place, but not near fires or stoves.
Another plan of cleaning scarlet cloth is to dissolve a pennyworth of salts of lemon in warm water with half a lemon sliced in addition. Put this on with a soft brush and finish by rubbing it with a piece of clean scarlet cloth.
FULL DRESS GARMENTS
Starting with full dress, the principal garment which claims are attention is the Tunic, together with its variations, the Highland Doublet, the Lancers' Tunic, and the R.H.A. Dress Jacket. The body part for most of these is the same, as will be seen by the diagram on succeeding pages, the back is cut on the crease, the shoulder seam is cut decidedly high, a fair amount of round is given to the side body, the waist seam is placed exactly at the natural waist, and ample room is given to the chest in all cases. We will, however, describe the system for cutting this when we deal with the diagrams; at the present stage we will describe how tunics are made for the different ranks.
TUNIC FOR FIELD MARSHALL
This is made of scarlet cloth with collar and cuffs of blue cloth; gold embroidery is placed on the collar and cuffs; the cuffs are 3 inches deep, and the gold embroidery is 2¼ deep round the top.
A flap is put on each sleeve, 6½ inches deep and 2 inches wide between the point; it is made of scarlet cloth embroidered in gold.
Sword flaps are placed at the back of each skirt, ½ inch shorter than the skirt itself. The width at the bottom point being 3 inches. The number of buttons down the front is 8; 2 are placed behind and three on each flap; an edging of white cloth 316 wide is put down the front round the collar, cuffs and flaps. The shoulder cords are gold plaited wire basket cord 316 inch in diameter, with a small gold gimp down the centre. The strap of the shoulder cord is 2¼ inches wide, ending in a 4-inch wing; an aiguilette of gold wire cord 4 inches in diameter, with gilt embroidered tags, is worn on the right shoulder.
