SNOW CAMOUFLAGE DRESS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

As a follow-up to Neil Rennoldson’s articles in Arquebusier XXXII/III on the flamboyant and colourful dress of early sixteenth-century landsknechts in Germany, and my own short article on the not quite as flamboyant, but still colourful landsknecht dress from the same period but in Sweden and Finland, I can now take this opportunity to add a few notes about something completely different although from the very same time period: the use of snow camouflage dress when fighting under Scandinavian winter conditions…

 
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