RAF Bans Skirts on Parade
Parades or not, I still think female personnel look much smarter in skirts. I complemented a female RN officer from Culdrose on how smart she looked in Tesco a while back. Bit of a risky move these days, as had she been a feminist she might have construed my comment as sexual harassment, but fortunately she accepted it graciously.
I got a bollocking from Mrs TTN though
I got a bollocking from Mrs TTN though
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Wikipedia gets me, bar the token Flight Sgt in No1's they managed to describe all the other uniforms as worn by senior Officers, heck even the combat kit is shown on an Air Commodore! talk about top heavy lol.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unifor...oyal_Air_Force
I note the J/T badge has gone, I take it that means the last one has left or been promoted?
WRAF were still being issued with them in 1976!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unifor...oyal_Air_Force
I note the J/T badge has gone, I take it that means the last one has left or been promoted?
During 1973 the wartime "Hairy Mary" working dress uniforms were replaced for all ranks with the 1972 pattern No 2 uniforms
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" I note the J/T badge has gone, I take it that means the last one has left or been promoted " ?
This much cherished rank has been gone, along with the wearers, for some time now.
I do know of one who was promoted as a result however .....which is the only way he ever could have been promoted to Cpl anyway.
As this thread is about uniforms, and parades, I'm delighted to say I upheld the tradition of the appearance of a J/T on such inane, and time wasting, activity when unable to avoid such.
Even more so as a Cpl.
This much cherished rank has been gone, along with the wearers, for some time now.
I do know of one who was promoted as a result however .....which is the only way he ever could have been promoted to Cpl anyway.
As this thread is about uniforms, and parades, I'm delighted to say I upheld the tradition of the appearance of a J/T on such inane, and time wasting, activity when unable to avoid such.
Even more so as a Cpl.
Ah yes, new uniform and gender discrimination. Due to fabric shortages, the then new T63 was issued in dribs and drabs. It was rumoured that SROs at Wittering said "Due to material shortages, WRAF skirts will be held up until SNCOs without trousers have been satisfied"
...Therefore, and in view of the above, all Wrens clothing is to be held up until the needs of the sea going man have been satisfied.
Can someone please do a remake of Colditz where all the captured RAF pilots are transgender and the German guards don't know whether to call them Fred or Dorothy ?
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I spent the seventies in the RAF & managed to avoid almost all parades after training. I would have loved to wear heels & smart dresses when off duty, but I feared that the SWO would have gone purple with rage!
A different age then, so I had to toe the line dress wise.
A different age then, so I had to toe the line dress wise.
This kind of sh1t, true or not, is because the RAF is infested with posts like SO1 Diversity and Inclusion. Why are we employing W/Cs on **** like that as opposed to our core business.
" I note the J/T badge has gone, I take it that means the last one has left or been promoted " ?
This much cherished rank has been gone, along with the wearers, for some time now.
This much cherished rank has been gone, along with the wearers, for some time now.
I have experience where the dress code at a company function (Suit and tie for Gentlemen and cocktail dress for ladies) was successfully challenged by a bloke who claimed it was sexist that only ladies were allowed to wear a dress.
Quite right too! Old fashioned blinkered thinking around gender and what is and isn't "acceptable" to wear belongs in the Ark, it is outdated BS.
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Don't get yer tights in a twist Pr00ne.. 
Am not Nutloose, but thanks for the advice! It's the ancient old dinosaurs on here that have missed the last thirty years that are in a twist!
I think tights would be the best way for the RAF to go. The surest way for Danny to tell them apart.