Figure 1.--The British Cubs in the 1970s wear the traditional Cub uniform that was adopted by many other countries. I'm not sure when this photograph was taken, but believe it may have been the 1930s.

More views of Cubs are incuded in the national pages. Many countries at first adopted the uniforms of the British Wolf Cubs. Gradually countries began adopting more destinctive national Cub uniforms. Elements of the British uniform endured for years especially the Cub cap. Americans adopted the British Cub cap, but changed it to blue and yellow. Many countries retained the British green and yellow. a few countries still use it, even though it is no longer part of the British Cub uniform. We have several national Cub Scout pages such as America, England, and others, but we have only begun to like them here.

America

The Boy Scouts of America in 1930 created a new opportunity called Cub Scouting for boys younger than Boy Scout age. A Wolf Cub program had long been a part of English Scouting. A year-round, home-centered program used by chartered organizations, Cub Scouting emphasizes involvement between boys and their parents, adult leaders, and friends. In the multidimensional plan of the Boy Scouts of America, Cub Scouting is where it all begins."

Belgium

Canada

Canadian Cub Scout uniforms like Boy Scout uniforms have changed over time. We do not yet have, however, comprehensive information on Canadian Cub uniforms over time. We have very little chronological information on Canadian Cub uniforms. We do know that Wolf Cubs were formally introduced in Canada during 1916, the same time that the British Wolf Cub program began. This was more than a decade before the program was founded in the United States.

Chile

The Cub uniform in Chile has been quite destincive to that of the Scouts. I'm not sure about early Cub uniforms, but by the 1960s they were wearing a uniform similar to that of the English Cubs. It is likely that this was the uniform from the beginning of Cubbing in Chile. I'm not sure about the colors, but the boys wore peaked caps, sweaters or jersies, short pants and kneesocks. The peaked caps were styled somewhat differently from the British peaked caps, but they did hae a peak and piping. I'm not sure about the color of the sweater, the English Cub sweater was green, but it does appear to be sweater or jersey rather than a shirt. The shorts may have been tan like Chiean Scouts rather than grey like English Cubs. The kneesocks appear very similar to those worn by Chiean Scouts. Chilean Cubs appered to have switched to blue uniforms, with baseball-type caps and shirts rather than jersies. The current Cubs appear to also wear blue kneesocks.

England

The English Wolf Cub uniform remained essentially unchanged for many years. It was very similar to scout uniform, the main differences being a cub cap rather than a scout hat and a jersey rather than the scout shirt. At this time shorts were commonly worn by boys of all ages, including scouts and indeed their scoutmasters, and these were much favoured by Baden-Powell. Much of the influence on scout uniform came from smarter schools, but scouting also influenced school uniform where, for boys up to 11 in particular, shorts were the norm until relatively recently.

France

Germany

Hong Kong

The most import level of Scouting is Cubbing. More Hong Kong boys are involved in Cubs than any other Scouting level. We know relatively little about Hong Kong Cubs at this time, other than the uniforms that they wear. The Cubs are boys and girls 8-11 years old. Hopefully our Hong Kong readers will oprovide us some information about the Cubbing program. Hong Kong Cubs continue to wear the traditional green and yellow peaked caps that they are associated with in England, but no longer worn there. Other than the cap, the Cub and Scout uniform is very similar.

Italy

I have seen a variety of Italian Cub uniforms. One 1949 drawing shows boys wearin a Britisj looking green peaked cap, green jumper, and grey cord short pamys. Some cubs in 1989 were wearing a uniform that looks similar to the British cub uniform with green caps and yellow trim. Other cubs wear red caps with blue shorts. Some Cubs wear yellow shirts. These different uniforms represent uniform changes over time as well as different Scout associations. HBC does not yet have details on the different association uniforms and changes over time.

Japan

Netherlands

Cub Scouts or Welpen are 7-10 years old. Single: `Welp', plural: `Welpen'). I'm not sure when Dutch Cubbing was founded, but suspect it was soon after the Cubs were founded in England (1916). The Welpen or Cub program is, like British scouting based on the Jungle Book-stories from Rudyard Kipling. Because all of you have read these stories at least once, I have nothing to add here. Although the majority of Cub-Packs consists of boys only, we have mixed Packs too. The uniform of the Welpen is a green blouse. A Pack ('Horde' in Dutch) consists of a maximum of 24 Welpen.

Scotland

South Africa

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka used to be called Ceylon when it was a part of the British Empire. Like India, Sri lanka was granted its independence after World War II. We have very limited information on the Cub program in Sri Lanka. We do not one image of a Cub group in the country. The photograh looks to be all British boys, suggesting that the Scouting movement was not integrated. We are noit sure about the date, but it looks to be like a 1950s photograph. The uniform is very different than the British Cub uniform.