My life would be easier if I preferred dragoons. But I do not like dragoons because I feel cheated by the lack of dragons. They don't even have dragon insignia. What a crime.
But hussars and hussar-inspired fashion is where it is at!!!!!
"The gay young officers forming our escort laughed so much at the absurd arrangement and at the terror of our guest, that I was obliged to dismiss them at daylight lest I should not be able to enforce proper respect for the envoy."