![]() By the end of the 18th century it was determined that the patterns and colours of gorgets and ribbons should be standardised. Throughout the 18th century the size continued to be reduced and the metal standardised to either gold or silver in accordance with the colour of the regimental lace of the officer. The British army developed its own form of the gorget. After that time, gorgets were only worn to indicate that the wearer was on duty. In 1695 gorgets ceased to indicate rank when ‘a regulation appeared stating that the grades of officers were to be distinguished by their weapons’. ‘Captains of foot and dragoons had a gilt gorget, the lieutenants one of sanguined (blued almost black) steel with gilt studs and the ensigns one of silver plate’. ![]() It was worn only as a status symbol linking its wearer to nobility and the age of chivalry.īy 1682 the gorget was employed by companies of infantry to indicate the rank of its wearer. At the end of the 17th century the gorget was the last remaining vestige of armour. ![]() By the mid-17th century, the development of firearms had rendered armour almost useless and the suits were reduced to little more than the helmet, gorget and cuirass. Attached to the gorget was the breast plate cuirass. The neck or, in French, gorge was protected by the neck plate gorget. ![]() The gorget was originally part of the suit of armour worn by a medieval knight. ![]()
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