Firstly thank you to everyone who has voted or contributed to the comments. I have added a little more information for the last 48 hours before the poll closes.
First off a quick look at the originals in the Crimea. I think you would be hard pressed to see what colour the turban is from this very early photograph. However I think it is fair to say that it does not stand out from the fez in a particularly striking way.
Taking the widespread advice to lighten the shade of green I took up a fairly bright shade, put it on the turban and to my mind it is an instant improvement. The striking thing is that a shade which is far too bright and sickly shade works in the context of scale and surrounding colours.
I shall say no more until the poll closes, but I do want to thank everyone in the UK who has overcome a certain weariness with polls and raised the energy to vote hre.
First off a quick look at the originals in the Crimea. I think you would be hard pressed to see what colour the turban is from this very early photograph. However I think it is fair to say that it does not stand out from the fez in a particularly striking way.
Taking the widespread advice to lighten the shade of green I took up a fairly bright shade, put it on the turban and to my mind it is an instant improvement. The striking thing is that a shade which is far too bright and sickly shade works in the context of scale and surrounding colours.
I shall say no more until the poll closes, but I do want to thank everyone in the UK who has overcome a certain weariness with polls and raised the energy to vote hre.
3 comments:
The lighter green works for me (and i routinely use lighter shades - as i suspect most of us do).
There's a photo here "French Zouaves in camp"
http://www.britishbattles.com/crimean-war/sevastopol.htm
There's a distinctly white looking jobbie on the guy at the tent's entrance.
Above that there's also a coloured illustration with white.
Andy, thanks for the reference. I am only just starting to explore the sources so with some hesitation I would say:
The coloured illustration is definitely a Guard Zouave, the yellow lace confirms this and he should wear a white turban.
My main source for line Zouaves is this-
http://www.grosser-generalstab.de/lh/lh3/lh3_57.html
As to the photo the waistcoat edging should help ie. yellow Guard; red line. But which is it? Does yellow appear black on these early photographs? I am well out of my depth by now, to say nothing of the fact he may just have decided to use the 'wrong' turban.
John
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