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    UK Military tailoring can be a bit varied!
    When I joined the Royal Air Force, I was issued with a raincoat made of rather cheap material like everyone else's. But after a year or so I hung it on the mess coat pegs (no coats in the mess hall!) and when I came out from dinner it had been stolen.
    I went to the stores to get a new one and was not yet entitled to a replacement but they said I could pay for one. It was far superior to everyone else's! Nice material, probably from a bygone age as this was not the pile em high and push em through bootcamp the original coat came from.
    Descendant of Malones from West Cork or Kerry and O’Higgins from Wicklow, and a Gibson
    Married to a Macleod

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    Quote Originally Posted by Iain Ruaidh View Post
    UK Military tailoring can be a bit varied!
    It was far superior to everyone else's! Nice material, probably from a bygone age as this was not the pile em high and push em through bootcamp the original coat came from.
    It's a bit of an aside but my go-to raingear is a RN surplus coat that has a zip-out liner. Somehow it found it's way across the pond. It's long enough to cover all but the last inch or so of a kilt.
    I just made the rash assumption the the British military might know a bit about wet weather.
    Last edited by Brian Rose; 7th August 22 at 08:20 PM.

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