[Titan Magroyne]

Oh geez. And it’s taken them this long to figure that out?

Wasn’t there also a period in the 70s or 80s of an open-collar, pullover Navy issue shirt that had a horizontal seam across the chest? That seam made it more difficult to rip your way out of the shirt if it caught fire, so eventually that design was dropped.

[Drumbo]

Wasn’t there also a period in the 70s or 80s of an open-collar, pullover Navy issue shirt that had a horizontal seam across the chest? That seam made it more difficult IMPOSSIBLE to rip your way out of the shirt if it caught fire, so eventually that design was dropped.

Fixed it. That was the butt ugly "China Boy" blue jumper which was standard issue and "required" utilities for enlisted personnel below E-5 in '74 along with ugly navy blue pants that came with wrinkles built in, attracted lint and showed any dirt they encountered (and burned like a roman candle). The Navy spent a fortune on "developing" those utilities and then discovered they were both highly flammable, melted to skin and impossible to tear away because of the shoulder to shoulder seam and slip-over style. The Navy quickly issued a "never mind" and we went back to the Seafarer dungarees and light blue chambray shirts popular in Zumwalt's Navy.