Posted on 03/04/2006 12:26:30 AM PST by A.A. Cunningham
Photos courtesy of the U.S. Navy and uniforms courtesy of the PRC. LOL
kinda strange how these things match the color of the water, good luck finding a man overboard.
Cracker jacks and dixie cups are still dress uniforms.
Uniforms?
Do what the local Costco tire shop does and go to www.dickies.com.
Relatively cheap, hard-wearing, cell-phone pocketed, heche en Guatemala/Nicaragua (lately), sturdy uniform pants/shirts/jackets.
I’ve got drawers full of Dickies work clothing.
The hooded, broken twill jacket is (has been) my favorite for a decade now.
Also have an old Dickies Eisenhower jacket that can’t be beat (or replaced, IMO).
Seriously – you can go through three pairs of jeans before you beat a single pair of their double-kneed, double-cuffed work pants to death.
Thanks for the tip. I'm sure others will find it helpfull. I'm not in the market.
I don't know about y'all, but this stuff looks like sumpin the Russians wore, especially that cap the gal(er, yeoman) is wearing. Did we buy some cold war surplus stuff from them??? LOL
Not to be an old fogey, but I kinda like tradion and these do not exhibit such.
Blue sea camo.............hide from the sharks???
LOL!
Hate the BDUs. Hate. Look like friggin play-do.
Those are Navy uniforms? What the hell do squids on ships need cammie pattern for? Who they hiding from?
I hated the blue utility-look and that weird bastardized CPO uniform they handed out to recruits in the seventies, when the old style dungarees and crackerjacks came back I felt like a sailor wearing them.
Those things? Sheesh... I give them less than a year and they will be gone and the dungarees are gonna be back.
A squid is a squid because he wants to be a squid and dammit he wants to look like a squid.
Those things are an abortion.
YGTBSM!
If they want to wear cammies, why not just go for cammies and be done with it? One uniform throughout the combined armed forces, easy logistics, plenty of availability. This "cruiser cammies" thing sounds really familiar.
The nav has repeatedly tried "new uniform" approaches, usually coincides with someone trying to leave their mark. Anyone who was in around the mid- to late-70s remembers that moronic white shirt over the black pants. Now we have khaki over black? There's a real fashion advance. And if E-6 and below are dissatisfied, then of course the thing to do would be make them look more like chiefs and officers (without requireing any higher professional standards -- that wouldn't be nice and make them more dissatisfied).
Of course, for working uniforms, I thought nothing could be more stupid than the working uniforms from the mid-70s: anyone out there remember that fantastic < /sarc> pullover shirt and blue trousers? Now -- battleship BDUs. Yeah, let's blend into the ship -- that'll look really professional.
Working on board is an industrial environment. Loose, flappy clothes are not only annoying, they have the potential to be downright fatal. Go with the Aussie's gray utilities, or go with coveralls, but this digital print "cruising cammie" stuff smacks of someone who wandered around wishing they could wear the cool cammies of the marines.
Foul weather? What happened to pea coats and watch caps? If sailors are standing watches without proper protective gear, it sounds like an IQ problem (which prompts the nanny mentality to step in to fix, I guess).
Couldn't the first one be mistaken for a Marine uniform?
I bet the only difference is that the Marines have a red stripe on the pants.
I hate the new navy BDUs. What are they thinking with those?
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