Quote Originally Posted by sydnie7 View Post
But the jackets are very cut-away, without (to my best viewing) either collar or buttons/buttonholes below the one that is buttoned at the neck. Altogether an interesting look but I wonder what kind of shirt you would wear under it today? Would you have some shirt collar showing -- seems uncomfortable to me to have the woolen jacket material up around your bare neck. Maybe that's why they look so unhappy
Our military "patrol uniform" jackets attach at the neck, and the shirt worn under was collarless. It an earlier time all shirts had no collar till you decided to attach it as MoR has pointed out "It is possible that the boys weren't wearing "collar and tie" and so the jacket was closed to disguise this fact.".

Frank