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An antique Boy Scout uniform (hat included!) sold on liveauctioneers.com for $130 in 2022, though you can also find sets listed for close to $400 on eBay. 7. Early Medals and Awards.
Boy Scout Leaders wear the olive cap, campaign hat (colloquially called the "Smokey Bear" hat, which hearkens back to Scouting's inception in 1907) or troop-approved headgear. Varsity Scout leaders wear the blaze visor cap, Cub Scout leader wear the olive visor cap and den leader wear the same visored cap as the youth they serve (wolf, bear ...
When Baden-Powell re-wrote his Army handbook Aids to Scouting into Scouting For Boys in 1908, he included sketches of Boy Scouts wearing the campaign hat. He prescribed a campaign hat 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".
The Boy Scouts of America are authorized to wear a red beret, although the BSA itself no longer makes them and very few Scout troops or Scouts wear them. The Girl Scouts of the USA have worn green berets that often led to members of rival military units reminding the United States Army Special Forces of the fact. [citation needed]
The Boy Scout uniform remained largely unchanged for the first 60 years, although the woggle began to replace the knot used to fasten the neckerchief from the early 1920s, [112] and in 1954, a beret was introduced as an alternative to the expensive and awkward hat, green for Boy Scouts and blue-grey for Air Scouts. [114]
The Boy Scouts of America partners with community organizations, such as religious congregations, fraternal groups, service clubs, and other community associations, to provide the Scouting program for the particular neighborhood or community in which the particular organization wishes to reach out to youth and families.