The Bigeard cap (French : casquette Bigeard) is a field cap worn by the French Army and several others. It was allegedly invented by French General Marcel Bigeard [1] [2] to replace the colorful and less practical colored headgear worn by the French Army in First Indochina War.
The Bigeard is a cloth field cap with a short cloth peak. Originally produced in lizard, it was later produced in olive green and various camouflage patterns to include, forest, and desert. The cap is more of a peaked sidecap and is available with or without neck flaps for sun protection.
Several armies have copied the design, Rhodesian army as the "swallowtail cap" [3] in English or "Quico" (pronounced kiko) in Portuguese vertical lizard [4]
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