Samuel - What's that 7 foot bloke doing with a 4 foot bloke's uniform?
KD was to be worn from a particular date, regardless of what the weather was on that date
Back in the 'old' days that's exactly what used to happen in the UK as well. Summer would generally arrive unannounced and early some years and we sweated away in hairy battledress, and weren't allowed out of doors without the jacket.
Multitudes of complaints eventually, sometimes, got the Staish to relent and orders were issued to the SWO to get the SRO out pronto. Once the restrictions were relaxed to summer dress (hairy battledress, shirt sleeves neatly rolled to the elbow and tie tucked in somewhere mid chest) that was the cue for it to start snowing!
Flexibility is the key to airpower
And that's at the Group "Standardisation" Unit.
It was standardisation JAFO. The 2 navs are in zip ups, the 2 AEOs are in No 1s and, knowing my place, a very, very young Sisemen is in hairy blues (but once commissioned I tried to make sure that my "uniform" was as individual as possible!)