I was in the Air Force in 1960. After basic, I was assigned to Goodfellow AFB at San Angelo, TX, for radio school. We had ten man classes, five airmen and five sailors. While in school, the airmen wore 505 (khakis) and the sailors wore the white uniform with the flap (undress uniform?). Then both services switched to blues on 15 Oct. The sailors had those uniforms to which you referred, with the dragons on the reverse of the cuffs, even though none of them had ever been overseas before. It was bad enough for airmen, soldiers and Marines having to travel wearing Class As, but those Navy uniforms struck me as being awfully uncomfortable during the summer. I spent a lot of time at the flight line at Clark Air Base in the PI, and saw a lot of sailors passing through, wearing those dress blues when it was about 95 out with a humidity to match.
yep...very often the winter blues uniform was the last thing you wanted to be wearing when you got off the plane at Clark AFB...
And yes, those un-dress whites were almost as big of a PITA as the dress whites where. What made even less sense was attempting to own a pair of Corfam dress inspection shoes in a flight-deck non-skid environment. One mis-step, and those $40 shoes looked like you tried to shine them with a brick...