The Imperial Royal Guard Academy was a training academy established by the Galactic Empire on Yinchorr, to train the Emperor's Royal Guard.

During a yearlong training program, recruits sparred against each other continuously to perfect their combat skills. By working both alone and in pairs, recruits learned how to rely on themselves or on a teammate to achieve victory, a step away from the squad-based stormtrooper training received on Carida. Failure in training often meant death. During their final test, trainees fought each other to the death in an arena called "The Squall" before Palpatine himself. Only a handful would survive this final test in a display of their loyalty and skill.

These are the Uniforms worn by these guardsmen.

so for sheer amusement I am considering doing kir kanos' training fatigues but I'm not quite sure what to make of the necks.

From what I gather by looking at the images I can find....the outfit consists of black boots, gray pants, a colored outer robe (for lack of a better word) that hangs 1/4 down the thigh and is open up the front and simply held in place by a black belt.

Under the outer robe is a black shirt with a slightly raised neck to it (which is another issue that comes up...I have one image that shows a raised neck, another with no neck, and another that suggests the black is all one part with the helm and shoulders which is obviously not right). colored pads on the fore-arms, black gloves with colored knuckles and hand guards, shoulder pads, and a helmet....but there in lies the neck problem.

One image I have shows the neck area being a solid sloping piece of the helmet similar to something that would be coming from a royal guard, another image shows a couple folds to suggest it may be some form of material hanging down from the helmet, and yet another picture along with the action figures merely show neck muscles in the color of the rest of the uniform...and I highly doubt the guards painted their necks before battle

First image: raised black neck line and "painted" neck



Second image: no black neck line and "folded" neck material



Third image: black neck all one part with the shoulders and helm, neck guard solid



If anyone has any input or opinions on this I'd love to hear them...otherwise I guess I'll just try to figure it out on my own

This has been on the back burner for me. I need to sit down and rethink things and I'll get some feed back. It always reminded me a bit of my doublet jerkin renaissance attire.

In most cases, it seemed to mimic the Royal Guard helmet IE, a solid piece, as the style of artists or even the inkers may have changed throughout it's publication. That's my take after pouring over the comic myself.