In Canada, while most groups use colour neckerchiefs, there is also an optional alternate universal pattern tartan neckerchief: white plaid on red for Scouts, gold plaid on dark green for Cubs. Fun scarves are also used as memorabilia at Scout events and country scarves are often traded at international gatherings The colours are usually the "Troop Colours" which may have a particular historical significance to the troop or to the local community.Īt Scouting camps and jamborees these neckerchiefs represent units, subcamps or the camp as a whole. In most countries each Scout Troop uses its own colour neckerchief. Įach Scout group would have a neckerchief of different design and colours. He continued "Every Troop has its own scarf colour, since the honour of your Troop is bound up in the scarf, you must be very careful to keep it tidy and clean." Initially, Scout neckerchiefs were tied with a variety of knots, but the use of a "woggle" or slide, originated in the United States in the early 1920s and quickly spread around the Scouting world. When Baden-Powell launched the Scout Movement with the book Scouting for Boys in 1908, he prescribed a neckerchief or scarf as part of the Scout uniform, which he stated was "very like the uniform worn by my men when I commanded the South African Constabulary". Baden-Powell copied Burnham's practical style of dress, including "a grey-coloured handkerchief, loosely tied around the neck to prevent sunburn".
The origin of the Scouting neckerchief seems to be in Robert Baden-Powell's participation in the Second Matabele War in 1896 where he worked with Frederick Russell Burnham, an American-born scout employed by the British Army. The neckerchief, unrolled, is designed to be the perfect size for use as a triangular bandage for first aid. A generally ceremonial item, the neckerchief is taught to be a practical wilderness item in the Scouting tradition. The Scouting movement makes the neckerchief part of its uniform. Ī double-colour neckerchief on use in Turkey It is currently part of the men's service dress uniform for junior enlisted sailors as well as the women's summer dress uniform. Sailors in the United States Navy have worn a rolled black neckerchief since the American Civil War. a simple reef or square knot) will give way if the neckerchief gets caught and is thus less likely to choke the wearer.
The rolled ends then pass around the neck until they meet in front of it, where they are secured together, either with a knot, such as a reef knot or a slip knot, or with a rubber band or other fastener (called a woggle or neckerchief slide) and allowed to hang. Either neckerchief is then placed on the wearer's back, under or over the shirt collar with the ends at the front of the wearer. Neckerchiefs worn by sailors are shaped like a square, and are folded in half diagonally before rolling, with rolling occurring from the tip of the resulting triangle to its hypotenuse. Sailors of the US Navy in Service Dress White Uniforms with their neckerchiefs
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