Looking at the Classic German WW1 Field Cap
If you've ever spent much time looking through grainy old photos of trench warfare, you've definitely spotted the german ww1 field cap perched on the heads of soldiers before they swapped them out for those heavy steel helmets. It's one of those pieces of military gear that just looks "right" for the era. While the iconic Pickelhaube with its spike or the rugged Stahlhelm get all the glory in history books, the soft field cap—or Feldmütze—was what the average soldier actually wore most of the time when they weren't dodging shrapnel. ...