This has come up before...Riverkilt for one has posted pics of himself with an Ike jacket and his kilts, and my friend Casey often wears an olive green wool Ike jacket with his MacNaughton tartan kilt.

However, X Marker XMayniac has worn an Ike jacket with his X kilt as "sort-of-semi-formal" and I thought it looked great. They're tough to find as surplus in a size that would fit me, though What Price Glory used to carry them in more *ahem* robust sizes. It's just that the price tag was rather hefty for my wallet.

Here's what I'm referring to, though I would personally NEVER wear insiginia and service bars if I weren't entitled to them....off they'd come if I got a surplus jacket that had them.



Dickies makes what they call an Ike or Eisenhower jacket that's a zip-up-the-front thing, that's not at all the same thing. You can find pretty reasonably priced ones like the picture, above, on Ebay if you watch for a while. I'd say treat the insignia and what they represent with respect and not to wear them if you're not entiteld...but the jackets themselves are great.