I have a question on the Überrock for Garde Kürassier Offiziere. I read that they leave the top button unbuttoned...When tailors delivered these to the young Officers the buttonhole was-standardly-sewn up. But why: the legend goes that when Kaiser Wilhelm I visited the Regiments Officers Mess the Regiments CO noticed the Kaiser had his top botton unbuttoned...Obviously he did not dare to point this out to the Kaiser...So he gesticulated his Officers to-discreetly-undo their top button...Since that day this button would never buttoned up....
-later, in the 1950ies Prinz Oskar von Preußen (1888-1958) who was a real Uniformenkunde specialst; will tell the real reason! The Garde Kürassier Überrock looked like a Medical Officers'....So something needed to be done to make the difference...
-Of course I now would like to see the button evidence.
Thank you,
Francis
