Just recently acquired some Northstar 1672 figures following a unit deal offer. I've got some dutch pikeman (
http://www.northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=4059) as they were the only unarmoured pikeman they were doing in the deals.
While I want some flexibility in representation different nations with these figures I want to have my troops as part of regiments of Louis XIV's grand army following the standard light grey with red facings appearance. As these dutch pikeman are wearing waist sashes I want to know that if French unarmoured French pikeman were wearing waist sashes what colour would they be.
I've gathered that around the 1660s they may have been wearing white sashes which was later being worn by Louis's cavalry regiments. Would it seem likely that a French pikeman's waist sashes would be the same colour as the facings of the regiment they were part of?
Cheers
Tim