lampasse
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Lampasse(s) ({{Langx|de|Lampasse(n)}}) are trouser stripes adorning the dress uniforms of many armed forces, police, fire and other public uniformed services. In German-speaking countries the uniforms of general staff–qualified officers featured distinctive double-wide lampasses.BROCKHAUS Encyclopaedia in 24 Volumes, volume 13: {{isbn|3-7653-3673-4}}, 2001, p. 27. {{in lang|de}}
For a comparable feature of civilian dress, see galloon.
Ancient Scythians often decorated the seams of their trousers with lampasse-like elements,
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| quote = Нерідко шкіряні штани прикрашалися «лампасами» і різноманітними вишивками.
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but the modern fad for lampasses originated in civilian fashion in the early years of the 19th century and soon passed into military use - by 1815 in Prussia, for example.
Germany
The lampasses of the General Staff–qualified officers up to colonel were in carmine. However general uniforms featured lampasses in corps colour ({{Langx|de|Waffenfarbe.}}), e.g. Air Force in Skyblue.
For general officers of the German Bundeswehr the tradition to use lampasses was given upWord and tradition in the German Army (de: Heer), by Transfeldt – v. Brand – Quenstedt, 6th increased edition, Hamburg 11 H.G. Schulz 1967, p. 55/§76, Lampasse in 1956. However, general officers of the National People's Army, Volkspolizei and Stasi, as well as flag officers of the Volksmarine wore double-wide lampasses on uniform trousers in the appropriate corps colour until 1990.
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In Germany today the general officers of the Bundespolizei wear double-wide Lampasses in deep green. Since 2010 Lampasses are also worn by the police forces of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria (2017).
Historical examples
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File:Württ. Ulanen Nr. 20 1825.jpg|Red double-wide lampasses of the Wuerttemberg 3rd Kavalery-Regiment, 1825.
File:A v Werner - Kaiserproklamation am 18 Januar 1871 (3. Fassung 1885).jpg|Red double-wide lampasses of the Prussian General officers.
File:Wood-evelyn.jpg|Field Marshal Sir Henry Evelyn Wood VC, GCB, GCMG with gold-lampasses.
File:Artyleria konna gwardii.PNG|Mounted officer with red lampasses.
File:Friedrich Wilhelm III (Ernst Gebauer).jpg|Friedrich Wilhelm III with red double-lampasses.
Lampasses today
Lampasses are worn even today in a large number of national armed forces on dress uniform, full dress uniform, or duty uniform of general officers. The gold-coloured lampasses of the US-Cavalry is also well known.