Uniforms of the British Army Rifles]] are [[rifle green]]. [[The Rifles]] wear a rifle green tunic with black trousers. The [[Royal Dragoon Guards]] and the [[King's Royal Hussars]] wear dark green and crimson overalls (tight fitting cavalry trousers) respectively. Cavalry regiments wear shoulder chains in place of shoulder straps. The [[Royal Regiment of Scotland]] wears a short jacket called a "doublet", in Archer Green. Prior to amalgamation, Highland regiments wore the doublet with the [[kilt]] and [[sporran]] while Lowland regiments wore [[trews]], both in the individual regiment's tartan. In the full ceremonial order of No. 1 Dress, officers wear a waist sash of crimson silk
Trousers hose directly to their pourpoints (the padded under jacket worn with armoured breastplates that would later evolve into the doublet) rather than to their drawers. In the 15th century, rising hemlines led to ever briefer drawers until they were dispensed with altogether by the most fashionable elites who joined their skin-tight hose back into trousers. These trousers, which we would today call tights but which were still called hose or sometimes joined hose at the time, emerged late in the 15th century and were conspicuous by their open crotch which was covered by an independently fastening front panel, the codpiece.