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The 1912 model shako was initially based on the German headgear van der garde hunters and the then Swiss shako. The shako m1912 was of gray-green cloth with black leather trim. Except for the Grenadiers and Jagers who wore the shako covered with black cloth. (As quickly covered in the outer model with the Jagers in the green hunter color) Furthermore, the shako was provided with a cockade, a storm strap, a flap at the front and a falling flap in the neck. With the large uniform up to and including the rank of sergeant major or supreme guard master, a hanging plume of horsehair -black for the artillery, engineers and cadets. Green for the hunters and white for all other non-commissioned officers. worn in these colors. This hat wants to make a warlike impression, for which purpose the armor or regimental figure or emblem was placed in a large laurel wreath on the front, under the cockade pumpkin. This wreath was removed in the field. During the mobilization, no fewer than 130,000 copies of this shako were ordered and delivered on October 1, 1916, and at the end of 1917 a further 145,000 were ordered and delivered. The shako was short-lived and officially relieved in 1918 by the gray-green kepi and the field cap. However, a photo dated 1924 still shows the hat. (Perhaps the shako M1912 was still worn by reservists at the time?). © copyright photo Michel van Grinsven
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