Maroon: Parachute Regiment, all ranks serving with 16 Air Assault Brigade ( not restricted to Parachute qualified personnel) other than the non–Parachute Regiment Infantry Battalion or Army Air Corps and attached Arms personnel Do not confuse rarity, interest and value. A rare item may not be valuable unless someone wants to buy it. An interesting item might not be rare or valuable. A valuable item may not be rare. It may have derived its value due to cost of materials and production rather than scarcity.

The French National Police discarded their dark blue kepis in 1984 as part of a general updating of uniforms, adopting a low peaked cap. [8] The reason given was that the rigid kepi, while smart and distinctive, was inconvenient for ordinary use and too high to be comfortably worn in vehicles.Belgian Railways conductors (but not train drivers or other personnel) wear a kepi as part of their daily uniform.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/948567/Binder3.pdf [ bare URL PDF] Female personnel wear a peaked cap of a different pattern. For uniformity, however, female musicians wear the same peaked cap as male personnel in formal dress. Members of the Auxiliary Territorial Service wore a soft peaked cap of a different pattern again. [ citation needed] Royal Air Force [ edit ] Members of the Royal Air Force wearing peaked caps (July 2011) including an RAF Police airman at the front right The regulations were often ignored because of the scarcity of materials and the need for rapid production. The average Confederate kepi usually was a simple gray or butternut cap made of wool or jean wool. To save leather for shoes and accoutrements, by mid-war Confederate kepi brims often were made of tarred cloth; chinstraps were sometimes omitted. [3] [4] Many Confederate units wore unique versions of the kepi. These included:

For the infantry, early use of forage caps, often knitted or home-made from remnants of discarded uniforms, seems to have been unofficial, or regimentally sanctioned, but from 1811 the authorities began to impose a uniformity of style. Material Regulations for the Army, Volume 3, Pamphlet 16, Optional Items of Dress (Note that Mat Regs have now been replaced by Army Dress Regulations so this reference is no longer current)