I remember "Trog" boots. The soles were made out of redundant tractor tyres. An inch and a half thick with large knobbly treads. You could stand out on the pans in a force ten gale body horizontal but held onto the ground by your boots. We also had these navy-style off-white polo/roll neck sweaters made out of a greasy wool. They used to get used by one and all, but never got laundered from one year to the next.
After a night on QRA, a dozen of us would head to the mess for breakfast. The Orderly Officer was under strict instructions not to venture near a table reserved for us, as we were the scruffiest, unshaven unwashed, un-kempt and definitely un-uniformed bunch of grunts. Trousers tucked into white sea-boot socks, trog boots, off-white sweaters and invariably oil stained uniforms. But we kept the birds flying !!!