The popularity of the military headdress in its hussar form reached a height in the years immediately before
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Possibly the name's original sense of a "busby wig" came from association with Richard Busby, headmaster of Westminster School in the late seventeenth century; the phrase buzz wig may have supplied the derivation f… See more

The Canadian Forces dress instructions authorise the busby as a part of the full dress uniform for hussars, artillery and rifle regiments.
The historic busby is still worn by ceremonial … See more