New uniform

[Entropy]

They seemed to have it sorted in WW2 with the battle dress, everyone new what branch everyone else was. No need to change the colours, just the material and cut.

 

[Barch]

I once had an old best blue tailored into a BD style jacket and trousers back in the day when BDs and Thunderbird jackets were both in use,.

It looked really good until the SWO at Leeming took a dislike to it and had me hand the jacket in at clothing stores only for it to re-appear a few days later with WO badges and medal ribbons on.

 

[Allflapnofly]

Line Swine wearing multiple TLP, Sqn badge adorned green flying jackets (ahem, jackets obviously all legitimately purchased/obtained from various local workwear & military surplus stores).....Never wore service issue headwear (maybe a woolly hat to conceal longer than the norm hair) and flying gloves for touching 'hot n' cold stuff' and certainly no taboo overalls......Just a shirt and No 2 trousers....Oh, and black safety boots.....Then mainly avoiding the SWO and certain 'others' when venturing (duckin' an' a divin') around the unit.....Our Sengo, Wobbly and Flugal Sgts turning a blind eye to our cool looka uz 'fashion statements'.......

WE thought we were absolute fookin 'LUSH'.....Although the RAFP, Shiney types, Raf Regt and those luvverly Wrafs, etc....probably thought otherwise......?

 

[Oldstacker]

I once had an old best blue tailored into a BD style jacket and trousers back in the day when BDs and Thunderbird jackets were both in use,.

It looked really good until the SWO at Leeming took a dislike to it and had me hand the jacket in at clothing stores only for it to re-appear a few days later with WO badges and medal ribbons on.

I had too had an old No 1 jacket turned into a BD jacket in '76 - 77, much nicer than a thunderbird jacket..... i kept it until orders came from on high to stop wearing them and as i worked in ESG at Binbrook, which was next to SHQ, being seen wearing it was almost inevitable.

 

[Fastoat]

Damn! Must admit before the IRA got all sniffy in the early eighties about us wearing uniform to go home in. I quite enjoyed heading off over the weekend to Manchester home from Stafford Graveyard in uniform. Especially wearing No1s. Then Paddy O'Flynn decided to up the ante and the Green was in vogue from TSW and Paddy go upset with that too.

In the late 70s, used to turn up at the local working mans club near Oldham on a Friday night straight from my fitters cse at Saints in my number 2s. Had loads of beers bought me! (think the marksmans badge helped!)

 

[Rigga]

Cargo Pants and Golf Shirts seem to be all the rage now and so easy to use in almost any technical situation - so definitely not suitable for MOD purposes. They are most likely to revive a German style uniform...something like the Brown Shirts I recon - with Johdpurs!

 

[Rugby-Jock-Lad]

The MOD and RAF will defo screw it up like the Navy did. Yes you can wear your jersey but you must wear the "jacket" on the outside of it!!! If they can screw up something simple they will, just so somebody can keep themselves in a job re-writing JSPs etc using the excuses: "You're in the military"; "It's smart this with the comfy fleece and tie underneath with creased cargo bottoms"; "It teaches attention to detail putting the creases in at training" blah blah blah...you watch!!!!