I seem to recall a tale that, in the same era, there was an engineer VSO when was quite proud of the fact he had a bare chest, so to speak - then the bar stewards deliberately gave him a Jubilee medal....
At a dining-in night at the old Secret Wiltshire Airbase I was mocked by some people at the pre-dinner drinks for wearing mine which I had only recently ‘earned’. How I laughed when all those deemed by the PMC to be ‘incorrectly dressed’ by not wearing theirs were fined a bottle of port...!