Insty said:
To look smart you need a smart uniform!
To drift back on thread............
I can't wait!
I liked the old battle dress, ok, I never had to wear it, but it looked smart and to an extent, you're right.. but I've worked with blokes who could make themselves look smart dressed in old sandbags. Being taught how to use an iron and press a uniform would be a start for 3 of the lads I saw in Cottesmore village the other day at the chippy. At first glance, I thought they were space cadets, but they were airmen.. who allows them to attend work like that?
CS 95 is badly tailored, which doesn't help and cobbled together in some Euro sweat shop so it falls to pieces (well, it did a few years back). It is a compromise,, it has to allow a certain commodious space in the seat to allow for the female form, and the legs are all wrong on it. I appreciate it needs to be substance over style, but its not very practical either.
The Americans have a bizarre attitude to uniform, each of the current arms has its own design, I couldn't find a reference for the Navy one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARPAT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airman_Battle_Uniform
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_Combat_Uniform
Back on topic, neither can I.
