Editing Sash (section)

=== Old Europe ===
[[File:1801 Antoine-Jean Gros - Bonaparte on the Bridge at Arcole.jpg|thumb|''[[Bonaparte at the Pont d'Arcole]]'', a 1796 portrait of [[Napoleon]] by [[Antoine-Jean Gros]] depicting him wearing a sash]]

In the mid-and late-16th century waist and shoulder sashes came up as a mark of (high) military rank or to show personal affection to a political party or nation. During the [[Thirty Years' War]] the distinctive sash colour of the [[House of Habsburg]] was red while their French opponents wore white or blue sashes and the Swedish voted for blue sashes.

Beginning from the end of the 17th century, commissioned officers in the [[British Army]] wore waist sashes of crimson silk. The original officer's sash was six inches wide by eighty-eight inches long with a ten-inch (gold or silver) fringe. It was large enough to form a hammock stretcher to carry a wounded officer. From about 1730 to 1768, the officer's sash was worn [[Baldric|baudericke]] wise, i.e. from the right shoulder to the left hip, and afterwards around the waist again.<ref>Carl Franklin: ''British Army Uniforms of the American Revolution 1751-1783'', Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2012, {{ISBN|978-1-84884-690-6}}, p. 356, p. 371,</ref>

Sergeants were permitted sashes of crimson wool, with a single stripe of facing colour following the clothing regulations of 1727. Whereas it remained vague whether the sash was to be worn over the shoulder or around the waist, it was clarified in 1747 that sergeants had to wear their sashes around the waist. From 1768, the sergeant's waist sash had one (until 1825) resp. three (until 1845) stripes of facing colour; in regiments with red or purple facings the sergeant's sash had white stripes or remained plain crimson.<ref>{{Cite web|title=British Army Sergeant's Sash, 1727-1826|url=https://www.militaryheritage.com/sash1.htm|access-date=June 29, 2022|website=www.militaryheritage.com|language=en}}</ref><ref>(Major) R. (Robert) Money Barnes, ''Military uniforms of Britain & the Empire: 1742 to the present time'', London: Seeley Service & Co, 1960, p. 52.</ref>

Until 1914 waist-sashes in distinctive national colours were worn as a peace-time mark of rank by officers of the Imperial German, Austro-Hungarian and Russian armies, amongst others.

The [[barrel sash]] is a type of belt traditionally worn by [[hussars]].