Wander00,
As the reference to "Gabardine Swine" may be puzzling some of our readers, I sought to bring up my long-time-ago Post on the subject. Predictably "Search this Thread" was (as usual) useless, Google likewise.
So here is a potted version:
Staff Officers in Cairo in WWII find No.1 (tropical) uniforms tailored in thin khaki gabardine much more elegant (and pleasing to the ladies) than in the (official) khaki drill. Monty's merry men, coming in hot dusty and tired from chasing Rommel round the Western Desert, observed these splendid creatures and applied this sarcastic term to them.
(You will all be familiar, I trust, with the Biblical story of the Gadarene Swine ?)
The practice was taken up by the Staffs in India. Of course, when Vera came out under the auspices of ENSA (?), these were in pole position as escorts.
(only jealous !)
Danny.