Green? Blue? Purple??
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Entertained today at a meeting, full of grey suits (in any shade of brown and green of course) and one CS95, oh, and one dog.
The dog was most interested in the one that looked most like a tree
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Posted on this before. I don't think the tax issue is what swings it - there's not enough in it either way as you don't get an allowance which is untaxed, you just get a tax allowance at the appropriate rate according to what 'they' reckon you ought to spend on your uniforms. The most expensive bits are the 1s and 5s anyway. Personally, I would happily give up the allowance and go to a free-issue system.
As for CS95, some people prefer wearing greens others blues. I just don't understand why people who are so fond of being in greens didn't just join a different Service in the first place. I can see why some units need to wear greens to work in fields and so on, but offices, ops rooms, CAOCs etc just don't need it. I also think it makes sense for people working overnight anywhere to wear CS95, as they don't look such a bag of sh1t in the morning (especially when they manage to get a couple of hours shuteye)!
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What really gets my goat is this recent tendancy for RAF Pers to wear a different coloured beret - 16 AAB is an example where they wear para berets (without the P-Course) with RAF beret badges and army stable belts - what's that all about? Can you imagine someone from the Parachute Regiment working as a permanent liaison offr with No 1 ACC giving up their Para Beret to wear an RAF one with a Para Badge? Nor can I.
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As for CS95, some people prefer wearing greens others blues. I just don't understand why people who are so fond of being in greens didn't just join a different Service in the first place. I can see why some units need to wear greens to work in fields and so on, but offices, ops rooms, CAOCs etc just don't need it. I also think it makes sense for people working overnight anywhere to wear CS95, as they don't look such a bag of sh1t in the morning (especially when they manage to get a couple of hours shuteye)!
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What really gets my goat is this recent tendancy for RAF Pers to wear a different coloured beret - 16 AAB is an example where they wear para berets (without the P-Course) with RAF beret badges and army stable belts - what's that all about? Can you imagine someone from the Parachute Regiment working as a permanent liaison offr with No 1 ACC giving up their Para Beret to wear an RAF one with a Para Badge? Nor can I.
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I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
STH, I rather fancy a sandy coloured one actually, quite fetching where I work
PS, I have my original beret made almost 50 years ago, complete with wire badge, and brushed with a stiff wire brush. try and get me to wear anything else.
PS, I have my original beret made almost 50 years ago, complete with wire badge, and brushed with a stiff wire brush. try and get me to wear anything else.
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Eh? I've heard of a couple of cases of suitably qualifed RAF folk wearing a maroon lid when working in an appropriate environment, but just any old chef or driver? Since when?!!
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Everyone on 16 AA Bde wears a maroon beret regardless of service or Regt/Corps. That means that a great deal of the Army personnel there are wearing the 'wrong' colour as well, not just the handful of RAF bods. The colour of beret is not related to the entitlement to wear para wings either.
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The RAF movers over here wear CS95s for C130 cargo flights and white long sleeved shirt, club tie and slacks when they're trying to get Gurkha Colour Sergeants and CSMs upgraded to business class. It works. The military stuff gets waved through customs without a glance and the pongoes get their upgrades. Making your clothes match the job in hand is plain common sense.
If RAF personnel posted to Army units are required to wear the appropriate coloured beret, then shouldn't all those pongoes on 5 Sqn be forced to give up their natty snot-tops for the more appropriate crab-grey (with Int Corps badges of course).
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Uniform in Main Building
In a previous job in Main Building I occasionally had to wear No 1 (Home) Service Dress and received nothing by positive comments from Civilian and Service colleagues alike, who jointly enjoyed the novlety of a Crab in something other than overalls or CS 95. Comments such as 'You chaps do have ties then...' speak volumes. Quite a buzz to clip-clop down Whitehall in a nattily-tailored uniform (obvious oxymoron) and I for one would see no objection in wearing SDs as an altenative to a suit (however, I have 5 suites and only 1 set of SDs; additional trews would be needed, I suspect).
Some of you may remember (reasonably recently) the senior Rupert who wore Home Service Dress (Mounted) on a regular basis in Main Building, and especially on the Northern Line. Barking Mad, of course. Couldn't sell his Mansion block apartment because he had had the kitchen removed. 'Dine at my club, y'know!'. Priceless!
Some of you may remember (reasonably recently) the senior Rupert who wore Home Service Dress (Mounted) on a regular basis in Main Building, and especially on the Northern Line. Barking Mad, of course. Couldn't sell his Mansion block apartment because he had had the kitchen removed. 'Dine at my club, y'know!'. Priceless!
