tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321070.post5992438728737008160..comments2024-02-27T11:26:39.655-07:00Comments on Southern Rockies Nature Blog: Ski Troopers of 1941—And Re-creating the LookChas S. Cliftonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00923547685265741325noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321070.post-83081678483282493732020-01-21T13:52:18.877-07:002020-01-21T13:52:18.877-07:00Puttees, leggings & gaiters - confusion reigns...Puttees, leggings & gaiters - confusion reigns.<br /><br />Puttees are wrapped around the leg like an ACE bandage, spiraling from the ankle to mid calf. They protect the lower leg from weeds and brambles.<br /><br />Leggings are a simpler version, that lace up on the lower leg - supposedly faster to put on and take off. They protect the lower leg from weeds and brambles. <br /><br />Gaiters look similar to leggings, but are shorter, and are designed to keep the snow from going up your pant leg.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14981760926868705487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321070.post-38016377154225623382011-01-30T09:54:44.964-07:002011-01-30T09:54:44.964-07:00SBW: "Puttee" comes from Hindi: paṭṭī ...SBW: "Puttee" comes from Hindi: <i>paṭṭī </i> bandage; akin to Sanskrit <i>paṭṭa</i> strip of cloth, bandage, says the dictionary.<br /><br />I have always heard "puttee" used only in reference to the cloth strips wound around the lower legs. Anything that is laced, strapped, or Velcro'd on is a legging (more military) or gaiter.Chas S. Cliftonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00923547685265741325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321070.post-76789075201159858772011-01-30T02:10:05.081-07:002011-01-30T02:10:05.081-07:00Chas
I too had been wondering just when a puttee ...Chas<br /><br />I too had been wondering just when a puttee becomes a gaiter - is tit the wrap-around-ness that make a puttee, a puttee?<br /><br />SBWThe Suburban Bushwackerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09372690405902840131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321070.post-11918239564394350922011-01-28T20:57:35.320-07:002011-01-28T20:57:35.320-07:00For terminology, I follow WW2 correspondent Ernie ...For terminology, I follow WW2 correspondent Ernie Pyle, in <i>Brave Men</i>, about the North Africa campaign: <br /><br />"Naturally [the artillerymen] didn't take time to put on their leggings. Then when it got light and the firing mission was over, they sat around scraping the mud off their shoes and putting on their leggings.<br /><br />"It was a very strict military regulation in the combat zones that everyone must wear their leggings, but the average soldier, just like myself, was careless about it. Along this line one of the boys said the worst trouble they had was with new officers.<br /><br />"'One morning we were firing,' he said, 'and one of them asked over the telephone if we had our leggings on. It made me so damn mad that I just called this gun out of action while we sat down and put on the leggings.' "<br /><br />Mountaineers say "gaiters" though.Chas S. Cliftonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00923547685265741325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321070.post-87099016424681357272011-01-28T20:42:34.651-07:002011-01-28T20:42:34.651-07:00Back in the days of Camp Hale and the 10th Mtn Div...Back in the days of Camp Hale and the 10th Mtn Division, Leadville was off limits. It wasn't to protect the town from the soldiers, it was to protect the soldiers from the town. ;^)<br /><br />I always called those things gaiters.Darrellnoreply@blogger.com