The Royal Guard Nutcrackers
are 17 inches tall and stand on a glittery gold square base. These Wooden Nutcrackers Soldiers are wearing a fashionable black feathery Kepi style hat. His uniform jacket is glittery red with red plastic jewels and a glittery black belt with a golden chain hanging from each side. The soldier figurines epaulets and cuffs are white and gold with a gold collar. His trousers are white with gold cuffs, white tassels hanging from the sides and glittery black boots. Our Christmas Nutcracker Decorations look dazzling holding a glittery gold and red scepter that is topped with a red plastic jewel in his right hand. The Royal Guard Nutcrackers have white down feathers for his hair with white eyebrows and mustache. This extravagant nutcracker is from the Kurt Adler Hollywood Collection. Select to see a complete listing of our wonderful Christmas Decorations Ideas.

Hollywood Nutcrackers.
Holly Adler, a renowned artist, has designed a collection of whimsical nutcrackers called Hollywood Nutcrackers. Holly has worked for Kurt Adler for over 25 years and only designs exclusively for them. Characters including Christmas, fantasy and everyday nutcrackers are an assortment that the collection features. Hollywood Nutcrackers™ make the perfect gift for every occasion with Holly's everyday and fantasy designs that include golfers, fisherman, pirates, and even magicians. The Christmas Hollywood Nutcrackers™ are created by all the things we love about the holidays. Each nutcracker brings a unique feeling of Christmas cheer from the way they are decorated with red and white candies, snowflakes and glittery uniforms. Holly Adler also has created other collections such as Holly Bearies, Holly Dearies, Holly Families, Holly Occupations and Holly Sports, in addition to Hollywood Nutcrackers. Check out our Christmas Nutcracker Decorations for the holidays.

Regimental Dress.
The styles and decoration of military uniforms varied immensely with the status, image and funds of the military throughout the ages. Uniform dress became the norm with the adoption of regimental systems, initially by the French Army in the mid seventeenth century. Some Swedish infantry had been issued with standard colored dress under Gustavus Adophus. However in the main the levies of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries wore civilian dress with scarves, pieces of foliage or other makeshift identification. Even Royal guards would only be issued with surcoats to wear over ordinary clothing. Select this link to view our Wooden Nutcracker Ornaments.

During the Eighteenth Century.
The normal military uniform comprised a standardized form of civilian dress (tricorn hat, long-skirted coat, waistcoat and breeches). One distinctively military feature was the long canvas gaiters, which came up to mid-thigh and had multiple buttons. Dress was surprisingly standard between European armies in cut and general outline. The distinction normally lay in colours, red coats for the British and Danes, light gray then white for the French, Spanish and Austrian infantry, dark blue for the Prussians, green for the Russians etc. Within armies different regiments were usually distinguished by "facings" or turnbacks and braiding on coats in colours that were distinctive to one or several regiments. Thus the Royal Comtois Infantry Regiment of the French Army, for example, had large dark blue cuffs on its off-white coats. Select this link to view our Nutcrackers and The Nutcracker Story.