Honour guards

[Taz]

Yes,Good Taste
But what exactly would you then have?

A Soviet style new Russian Retro Parade Hat for example. :)

Eddie.

[ibaya]

I never saw such a situation in the photos I have. EM have their own slightly modified brown parade uniform...

Enlisted men (or more accurately, conscripts) assigned to honor guards, specifically Moscow and probably the other Hero Cities, wore officer-cut uniforms, with the same quality materials, with some adjustments for their non-officer status, e.g. shoulderboards. They often wore officer visored caps with the oval cockade, and gold-colored akselbanti, especially with the green parade uniforms (the conscript version was white, and of a simpler design).

We should also remember that soldiers who voluntarily extended their service beyond mandatory conscription were granted the right to wear officer-style uniforms, too, whether or not they were advanced to the rank of praporschik.

[ibaya]

I wonder if the embroidered version is something specific to the green uniform. I've never seen an emroidered one on a brown service visor cap ...