Khmer Rouge hats

[Unclebananahead]

What color hats did the Khmer Rouge wear? Were they black to match their uniforms?

[Sasha]

isnt it a bit early to be already working on your halloween costume?

[TC]

http://tinyurl.com/6dj8gyy

[Pirate Utopian]

Bloodstained.

Why do you ask?

[scarletghoul]

http://tinyurl.com/6dj8gyy
whoa that website freaked me out for a moment

and yeah, black i think. be sure to get a krama to complete the look.

[Unclebananahead]

Bloodstained.

Why do you ask?

Idle curiosity. I know that they were known for wearing black uniforms, and some sort of 'Mao hats.' I was curious as to what color those hats were. Were they also black, or were they a different color? In response to the user who responded to my query with a Google search, I already conducted such a search, and found the results to be inconclusive. There's a picture of a little girl in what's supposed to be a KR costume with what appears to be an olive colored hat, but this doesn't necessarily mean that the hats worn by KR cadres were this color. I was just curious to see if anyone on here knew already.

[milk]

The hats you're on about were Chinese military caps, which were green. Although I could be wrong, I think mostly soldiers in the Revolutionary Army wore these, although I have seen film footage of workers in the rural areas and Phnom Penh wearing them. Soldiers also wore green informs too, although they also wore peasant pyjamas which were, more often than not, black in colour. The differences of dress between the armed forces and other people are probably down to the hodge-podge availability and supply of clothing etc during the civil war. And China later supplying the DK government with such things.

Here is some staged KR propaganda footage depicting a scene from the civil war. It shows soldiers wearing the Chinese caps.

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Below is colour film footage of the July 1975 unification rally in Phnom Penh, to formally mark celebration of their victory in the war and the reordering of the revolutionary armed forces into a single national army (which was never really completed). You can see the Chinese caps, as well as soldiers wearing both black and green. From 5:39 you can see rows of male soldiers dressed all in green, and after them rows of women soldiers dressed in black with the green caps.

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Most people, though, wore the pyjamas with trousers or a skirt, and also a red-checked krama (scarf/mini-sarong piece worn like a revolutionary insignia), which sometimes came in different colours as well. They also wore rubber sandals cut from car tyres.

http://images.travelpod.com/users/shunny81/1.1260465815.khmer-rouge-uniform.jpg

[Unclebananahead]

I was hoping to get a 'Milk response' and there it is. Thank you very much Milk. That was exactly what I was looking for.

So I take it that they never wore black hats eh? Interesting.