OT again, but Messrs Moss in Covent Garden was tasked to provide me with new Mess overalls, following a particularly blurred Guest Night.
Me: “14 inch hems, please.”
He: “Sir, that woukd only work if wearing Mess boots.”
Me: “I do.”
They were very nice, but sadly shrank in the wordrobe as so many of these things do in later years.
The full-length boots from Singapore in the late 60s still fit perfectly, though.