Rainbows wear tabards in six colours of the Rainbow; red,orange, yellow, green, blue and violet, a green cap is optional. Guides wearing their uniforms represent their local unit, Girlguiding as an organisation and their place in history.

Rainbow Guides | Brownie Guides | Girl Guides | The Senior Sections | The Adult Sections | BGIFC (British Guides in Foreign Countries) | * (Lord Baden-Powell's Role in The Girl Guide Movement (UK) * | * Uniform Through the Years * As with the 1980s leisure wear and Jeff Banks collection, Ally Capellino’s designs are versatile and practical without sacrificing comfort. Today, Brownies are encouraged to be adventurous and try new things, and their uniform reflects this. Compared to the original 1900s uniform, Brownies have changed a lot, and the uniforms have tried to reflect both the contemporary fashions and the functional requirements of a Girlguiding uniform. 2000s Promise Badge Young Leaders were also able to wear the Ranger uniform even if they weren't part of a Ranger unit. The uniform gets another makeover this time by Ally Capellino. The uniform now includes; T-shirt, gilet (fleece vest), rugby shirt and sweatshirt are mid blue and dark blue, with red detail. Badges are now worn on the gilet.

Of course there was no Guide uniform in 1908 because there were officially no Girl Guides. However some girls had organized themselves into self led groups and had adapted the Scout uniform for themselves. They wore a long khaki or Lincoln green skirt, khaki blouse, and a khaki brimmed hat. Girls could choose how modest they wanted their uniform to be, allowing for increased religious and personal inclusivity.

Trainers instead of more traditional shoes, often school shoes, completed the transformation from military uniform to casual wear. Cadets wore either their school uniform, or Guide uniform. To distinguish them from Guides, they had a white hat-band, hat badge, and triangular tie. In 1987, when Rainbows Guides were first formed they wore a sleeveless tabard over their usual clothes. All the Rainbows in a particular unit wore the same coloured tabard. saw the shortest skirt lengths yet, as miniskirts were the height of fashion. The straight yellow tie of the 1950s and early 1960s became a short cross-over tie. The shade of brown used for the dress also changed again, becoming more red in tone. While the beret remained popular, in the 1970s, Brownies swapped them for knitted bobble hats. Made popular by designers like Mary Quant, the miniskirt reflected the growing youth population as ‘baby boomers’ born in the 1950s became entered their teenage years in the ‘swinging sixties’. Fashion moved away from the more conservative silhouettes of the 1940s and 1950s, and the second wave of feminism fought for increasing equality for women. 1960/70s Promise Badge

Brownies might also want to accessorise with other items from our range, for example, with a baseball cap, but this is not part of the uniform. Where do Brownie badges go? During the 1980s, while the Brownie uniform remained the same as the 1960s design, a leisure wear option was introduced, featuring a bright yellow t-shirt and hat. Shorts, available for the first time, mark a transition towards girls making their own choices about how they wanted to dress while representing Brownies. Brighter colours were introduced as fabrics and dyes became much cheaper. After a long struggle, women had been given suffrage, the right to vote, in 1918 during the first wave of feminism. Women were gradually beginning to move towards gender equality with men, with more women entering the workplace after WW1. During the 1920s, women began cutting their hair shorter and wearing skirts and dresses with shorter hems: fashion trends reflected in Brownie and Guide uniforms. 1920s Promise Badge Over the phone. Call us on 0161 941 227 any time between Monday to Friday from 9am to 5.30pm (9.30am on Wednesdays).