Originally Posted by
BEagle
I certainly do! Horrible things - along with the joys of the white waistcoat and wing collar which were still around in the 1970s!
and the stiff fronted shirt where you needed a nail gun to get the studs in? I think they died out when laundries ran out of starch.
My white mess jacket had been in the sin bin for 10 years when I was posted to Ascension. It came out a shade of brown. Many washes later it was an acceptable shade of off-white. It was then sent to the laundry and came back as soft as a babies ******. Back to the laundry - it is supposed to be starched. It had to be sent from Nairn to Aberdeen an duly came back as an imitation of plasterboard. Still it remained reasonably presentable to the 6 months and innumerable dining-in nights.