Comments on: Napoleon’s Army May Have Suffered From the Greatest Wardrobe Malfunction in History http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/10/napoleons-army-may-have-suffered-from-the-greatest-wardrobe-malfunction-in-history/ Keeping You Current Sat, 18 May 2013 04:49:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: Glenn Harder http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/10/napoleons-army-may-have-suffered-from-the-greatest-wardrobe-malfunction-in-history/comment-page-1/#comment-1684 Glenn Harder Tue, 06 Nov 2012 23:28:43 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/?p=6223#comment-1684 This is totally hypothetical. Where is the proof? This is totally hypothetical. Where is the proof?

]]> By: Arnaud http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/10/napoleons-army-may-have-suffered-from-the-greatest-wardrobe-malfunction-in-history/comment-page-1/#comment-1581 Arnaud Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:50:31 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/?p=6223#comment-1581 Hello, I am really surprise with this. I found dozen of Napoleon I overcoat buttons at Austerlitz or around St Privat/Metz and Laon, all of them are in brass, flat with a number of them. They are the same as the ones used during Napoleon III time (But this time curved) and again during WWI (without number but with the branch of army sign). Around 1915 they change them from brass to iron. Perhaps tin has been used for pants or shirts, this I don't know but never seen for overcoat. Arnaud Hello,

I am really surprise with this. I found dozen of Napoleon I overcoat buttons at Austerlitz or around St Privat/Metz and Laon, all of them are in brass, flat with a number of them. They are the same as the ones used during Napoleon III time (But this time curved) and again during WWI (without number but with the branch of army sign). Around 1915 they change them from brass to iron.
Perhaps tin has been used for pants or shirts, this I don’t know but never seen for overcoat.

Arnaud

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