RAF Uniform - What do you think?
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Simple....just grow a huge and outrageous handlebar moustache. Then we would know exactly who you are, and start saying spiffing, what ho chaps and tally ho.
Matloet admiralson TV should all grow big white beards and go "arrgghhh jim lad, that she be" etc and talk about fishfingers a lot.
Pongo occifers should appear on TV with riding crops, no chin and a monacle with names like major General Wupert Chumnly-Carstairs.
Matloet admiralson TV should all grow big white beards and go "arrgghhh jim lad, that she be" etc and talk about fishfingers a lot.
Pongo occifers should appear on TV with riding crops, no chin and a monacle with names like major General Wupert Chumnly-Carstairs.
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Bugger that's my cover blown completley! Guilty as charged, read some porn in my time guvenor. A**y L****h took the piccie, some dank V-bomber airfield in the late 70's. (I think it might have been Wyton). A lot less hair these day's. I blame the station barbers who kept on triming the hairs in my ears, after a while it all migrated down there!
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Just goes to show that a chip bag hat can change anything! It doesn't look like G****y G**G but I've only seen him on the golf course. Mind he was interviewed on the telly once and muttered a rude word after a trip to Bagdahd in 1991.
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Something to do with a large order of cloth redirected from Czarist Russia 100 odd years ago. Same colour as a grease that was used to cure crabs (hence Crab Air/Crab Fat...etc)
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Now that's true style! Perchance he smokes a pipe and drinks pints?
No nanby-pamby CS95 for that chap I'd suggest- more a hairy-Mary sort
No nanby-pamby CS95 for that chap I'd suggest- more a hairy-Mary sort
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I tried to buy a Chip Bag last year at Snaiths Cranwell, but at £46 for one that was not padded I decided to give it a miss - especially as the assistant declared that only Air Rank Officers' side hats were padded.
They've obviously had a few more enquiries along the same lines, because the latest ones are padded - apparently. Anyway, I popped in there today and the very latest batch they have received from the manufacturer have been made to the older spec - red lining, not padded. Also, the badge is fastened inside the hat (backing plate and pins not hidden within the lining). When I suggested to the nice lady that this was surely a good thing so that the badge could more easily be removed for washing, she went a funny colour and insisted the hats should only ever be dry-cleaned! Have you ever heard of such a thing?
Now for the imprtant bit: They are selling them off for £20 a piece. Needless to say, at less than half-price I had one and told the chaps back at the secret Hawk base on the A15 to get their orders in quick. They had about 40 left - mainly 58 and 59 that I saw, but there may have been others.
Mods - sorry about the advertising, I am nothing to do with the company; just thought I'd share the info before the VR(T) guys get them all. Won't be the least bit offended if you bin the post.
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PS. I am sure that WOs in the late 80s were wearing forage caps with crowns and eagles on them (ie same as officers). However, they now seem to wear them with WO beret badges (or something very similar). Is my memory going or can anyone else out there recall similar??
They've obviously had a few more enquiries along the same lines, because the latest ones are padded - apparently. Anyway, I popped in there today and the very latest batch they have received from the manufacturer have been made to the older spec - red lining, not padded. Also, the badge is fastened inside the hat (backing plate and pins not hidden within the lining). When I suggested to the nice lady that this was surely a good thing so that the badge could more easily be removed for washing, she went a funny colour and insisted the hats should only ever be dry-cleaned! Have you ever heard of such a thing?
Now for the imprtant bit: They are selling them off for £20 a piece. Needless to say, at less than half-price I had one and told the chaps back at the secret Hawk base on the A15 to get their orders in quick. They had about 40 left - mainly 58 and 59 that I saw, but there may have been others.
Mods - sorry about the advertising, I am nothing to do with the company; just thought I'd share the info before the VR(T) guys get them all. Won't be the least bit offended if you bin the post.
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PS. I am sure that WOs in the late 80s were wearing forage caps with crowns and eagles on them (ie same as officers). However, they now seem to wear them with WO beret badges (or something very similar). Is my memory going or can anyone else out there recall similar??
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WO Field Service Cap
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You are correct in that, throughout the history of wearing the FS cap Warrant Officers wore the Officers cap Badge, eagle and crown. However AP1358 (6th edition), of 2004, quotes the wearing of a WO Beret badge on the hat in lieu of the Officers version. Similarly, I had never seen a Gp Capt wearing a FS cap and had assumed it would be of normal Officer pattern if so worn. However, the same AP now quotes them as wearing the same pattern as an Air Officer albeit with the standard Officer beret badge attached.
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You are correct in that, throughout the history of wearing the FS cap Warrant Officers wore the Officers cap Badge, eagle and crown. However AP1358 (6th edition), of 2004, quotes the wearing of a WO Beret badge on the hat in lieu of the Officers version. Similarly, I had never seen a Gp Capt wearing a FS cap and had assumed it would be of normal Officer pattern if so worn. However, the same AP now quotes them as wearing the same pattern as an Air Officer albeit with the standard Officer beret badge attached.
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The forage cap was often a sore point with gp capts, especially stn cdrs. They didn't like wearing the same headgear as the junior officers.
At Akrotiri early 70s, OC Bomber, M*** B, always wore an SD hat until there was a big security exercise. To avoid being kidnapped be borrowed a forage cap.
At least with an air officer's cap they are ready to join the airship club.
At Akrotiri early 70s, OC Bomber, M*** B, always wore an SD hat until there was a big security exercise. To avoid being kidnapped be borrowed a forage cap.
At least with an air officer's cap they are ready to join the airship club.
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[QUOTE=Blacksheep;2872816]One is reminded of Chief Technician Frank Parson's comment, when challenged on the 'flyaway' style (as preferred by most 1950/60's Chiefies) of his headgear, that "berets is fer keepin' the oil outta yer 'air." Frank of course generally sported black wellington boots, a brown dustcoat with custom built aluminium C/T arm badges rivetted to the sleeves and tied round the middle with a sisal string 'belt.' QUOTE]
That amused me; I remember Frank Parsons well. A guy you just had to like and admire. I was a JT at the time and I couldn’t, at first, figure out how he got away with his own interpretation of RAF uniform; and I can confirm the sisal string 'belt and home made riveted Chief Tech badge. It wasn’t just the uniform. His whole appearance made him look like he should be two fields over fixing Massey Fergusons rather than Vulcans. After a few months it dawned on me how he got away with it. The bosses, Group Captain down it seems, knew something I hadn’t twigged. He had the energy of ten men, and did the work of ten men. Why mess with an asset like that!
That amused me; I remember Frank Parsons well. A guy you just had to like and admire. I was a JT at the time and I couldn’t, at first, figure out how he got away with his own interpretation of RAF uniform; and I can confirm the sisal string 'belt and home made riveted Chief Tech badge. It wasn’t just the uniform. His whole appearance made him look like he should be two fields over fixing Massey Fergusons rather than Vulcans. After a few months it dawned on me how he got away with it. The bosses, Group Captain down it seems, knew something I hadn’t twigged. He had the energy of ten men, and did the work of ten men. Why mess with an asset like that!
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Would I be correct in assuming that you are either the Cookie Monster on the right of the original picture or his boyfriend?
Suspicion breeds confidence
BeefyBoy and Ken Scott. Correct answers! Redundant Russian cavalry uniform material that just happened to be the right colour. The cheque is in the post.
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I have heard from a pongo that they are thinking of bringing back barrack dress due to CS95 wearing out too quickly in the orofice environment, now there's an invitation to a fancy dress competition, just how many different combinations of trouser/shirt/tie/jumper/socks.shoes/hat/sundry acoutrements does the army have?? I remember working with a chap from the Kings at Cranditz, he wore green trousers and a royal blue shirt (very similar to techy blue shirt)!! Then another chap from RTR used to wander around with a bit of twig, no doubt for bashing the front of tanks to make them work!!
I think the term uniform leaves much to be desired, especially with the new shiny blue shellsuit trousers that are being issued. Why can't we get kit issued that:
a. Lasts more than 6 months (cf CS95 & shiny blue trousers, 6 months before your tackle starts to poke thro the material!!
b. Looks 'professional'.
c. Is comfortable to wear.
Obviously the brains down at DCTA IPT have their fingers well and truly on the pulse, at least we've now got ops pants that you can wear for weeks without being found by Jerry going sausage-side!!
Windy
I think the term uniform leaves much to be desired, especially with the new shiny blue shellsuit trousers that are being issued. Why can't we get kit issued that:
a. Lasts more than 6 months (cf CS95 & shiny blue trousers, 6 months before your tackle starts to poke thro the material!!
b. Looks 'professional'.
c. Is comfortable to wear.
Obviously the brains down at DCTA IPT have their fingers well and truly on the pulse, at least we've now got ops pants that you can wear for weeks without being found by Jerry going sausage-side!!
Windy
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Can you wear the old green shirt with the CS95 bottoms?
If you can't up your brevet on your CS95, like DCINC, can you not put one on your green woolly pully?
I rather fancy my brown boots and blue woolly pully too.
If you can't up your brevet on your CS95, like DCINC, can you not put one on your green woolly pully?
I rather fancy my brown boots and blue woolly pully too.
Wear a bikini instead....
From this week's (not April 1) edition of Drapers - the clothing industry magazine.
“Supplier JOI has landed a deal to create a lifestyle fashion collection for the Royal Air Force.
Due to launch for Spring 07, the 50-piece range will mostly consist of smart casual tops, trousers and bomber jackets for men, each sporting a small RAF insignia. There will also be a few womenswear pieces such as polo tops and a bikini, and kidswear is set to debut for Spring 08.
The RAF range, made under license from 4Kids Entertainment, will be pitched in the casual lifestyle sector against the likes of White Stuff. Retail prices range from £25 for a polo shirt to £160 for a leather jacket…..
The RAF will also sell the merchandise through its website and a mail-order catalogue.”
I wonder whether the royalties will find their way to the RAFBF?
“Supplier JOI has landed a deal to create a lifestyle fashion collection for the Royal Air Force.
Due to launch for Spring 07, the 50-piece range will mostly consist of smart casual tops, trousers and bomber jackets for men, each sporting a small RAF insignia. There will also be a few womenswear pieces such as polo tops and a bikini, and kidswear is set to debut for Spring 08.
The RAF range, made under license from 4Kids Entertainment, will be pitched in the casual lifestyle sector against the likes of White Stuff. Retail prices range from £25 for a polo shirt to £160 for a leather jacket…..
The RAF will also sell the merchandise through its website and a mail-order catalogue.”
I wonder whether the royalties will find their way to the RAFBF?
