Norman Stone's "The Eastern Front" (one of the few English-language histories of that theater I've found) also refers to this. He claims that there were actually regulations governing the type of cosmetics Romanian officers could use according to their rank. This was an illustration of the generally poor quality of the Romanian officer corps, which was noticed by many foreign observers. He also quotes some British officers as noting the Romanians' maneuvers "made a public school field-day look like the execution of the Schlieffen Plan."