| The period saw the transition of British Army uniform from red wool serge coats to khaki cotton, and gaiters were replaced by puttees. |
| He writes of penury, mud, flea-bitten puttees, a tired greatcoat, wet boots, a damp bedroll plus fireside sing-songs with murderous gypsies. |
| Anand's protagonist, Bakha, wants to wear trousers, breeches, coat, puttees and boots. |
| The French soldiers more often than not had no weapons and wore their street clothes with either a wedge cap, or puttees over their trousers. |
| From his campaign hat to his polished puttees, he was new, new like the lately minted coin that has not long circulated. |
| Such puttees were first worn by members of the Anglo-Indian army in the late 19th century. |
