Quote Originally Posted by Nanook View Post
Tell me more about the puttees as I thought they went out with trench warfare.
These puttees (at least, that's what we called them) were the same as or similar to the British pattern in the Second World War as worn with battledress trousers. My memory could be wrong, but I recall them being roughly three feet long and around 4-5" wide, with a little bit of elasticity. They had a triangular end, to which was attached a one inch wide cotton strap of maybe another 18". When wrapped around the ankle and lower calf, it was maybe 6-7" wide, with the triangular end on the outside ankle. They differed from the ones I've seen circa the Great War which came up a lot higher on the calf. I'll point out that at the time I was wearing them (early 1970's) the Canadian military was not spending a whole lot of money on its reserve forces, so we wore kit that was at least one generation old. Our day uniforms were basically from the 1940's and 50's.