This is a fascinating discussion for me. In about 2005, I raised this very same issue (of the non-uniform Mexican uniforms) on the Alamo Film board (now lost forever with all of its archival material). I pointed out at that time that the Mexican army was probably just as scruffy as it appears to be in photographs taken in the 1860s and during and after the Pancho Villa era. It is a fact that no two photographs of the Mexican army taken in this period (1860-1916) show the same uniforms even when all of the men in any particular photo are dressed alike. One photograph shows a group portrait of M