The Royal Lancers Scarlet Forage Cap

The officer and WO1 cap is scarlet with quartered black piping, leather chinstrap resting on a gold wire-bullion passing peak and two small regimental buttons, with the strap stud on the left.

The common male-officer forage cap is cloth with three cloth welts, the upper welt lying in the crown seam.

The common male-officer forage-cap sides are made in four pieces and are 2⅛ inches deep between the welts.

A 1¾-inch cloth or velvet band is placed between the two lower welts of the common male-officer forage cap.

The common male-officer forage-cap chinstrap is ½-inch black patent leather, secured by two buttons immediately behind the peak corners.

The common male-officer forage-cap peak is patent leather, droops at an angle and is 2 inches deep at the centre.

Male and female wearers use the same style within each pattern; Remembrance poppies are worn behind the left securing button.

Officer Scarlet Forage Cap is the chinstrap identified in the cited source row.

At a 21¾-inch head circumference, the common male-officer forage-cap top is 10½ inches in diameter; its diameter changes by ⅛ inch for each ¼-inch change in head size.

The common male-officer forage-cap badge, whether metal or embroidered, is placed centrally on the band.

Goldings’ WordPress catalogue records the customer-facing parent name “The Royal Lancers No.1 Hat**”.