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I guess I'm just stuck in a 1930s ideal of men's fashion where high English-back trousers with braces automatically require a deep forward pleat!  ;D And because of that I don't think that trousers need to be pencil-thin to be sleek; rather, the slight baginess is stylish--I've seen many evening...

I somewhat concur.  My tailor (Giovanni, in Winnipeg) and I figured pleats would be noticed.  But they are so much more confortable than flat-front trousers. Of course if the flat-fronts are cut loosely it doesn't matter, but then I might as well travel back in time and become a Seaman and wear...

I've finally started to get my mess rig made. So I went to the base tailor today and found that CFSS doesn't sell material for mess rig anymore.  No problem as the stuff they want is pretty damn heavyweight & apparently I just have to get material that's similar, which got me wondering how much...

I believe I saw the guncrews wearing only the gunshirts & trousers (not sure if they were bell-bottomed, but I assume so).  They also have their ships badges (or coast badges, I think each coast has a team?) sewn on the gunshirts. I liked wearing my square rig when I was a cadet...damn it was...

Actually the old blue uniform would change my uniform...to blue!  ;D Instead of that awful dull, dull black.  The aesthetic advantage of 'navy blue' (or 'midnight blue' as civilians now call it) is that it appears 'blacker than black' in artificial light and gives a lusterous blue tinge in...

Actually I'm ROTP filling my non-university time by volunteering with my old sea cadet corps, so I guess I could get sea boots. As for the oxfords, has the navy come to the point where naval combat rig is so often worn that there is no reason for more than one pair of shoes fit for...

Yeah, I was never sure about wearing parade boots in my service dress.  But I've never heard of a dress instruction against it (though I understand some of the most important rules are unwritten) and parade boots are more confortable for marching around. If parade boots are not for officers...

I think I'm doing a pretty good job of controlling the Winnipeg seal/walrus herd.  I haven't seen a single one around.... Dress Instructions can be found at http://142.59.159.170/pams/cf_dress_manual.pdf Can anybody tell me why we (in the navy) can wear wellington boots in the mess, yet not on...

Another question, this time about naval combat rig: are we allowed to wear the field combat boots (Mark 3, I believe) with it anytime?  I've seen one LS wearing army combat boots but perhaps there was some fire-safety issue that prevented him from wearing the parade boots. I know that sea boots...

Strangely enough, though I find the current female naval mess dress 'outdated,' I do like the WREN mess dress. I can't say I liked giving the junior ratings no separate mess dress, though.  But that square rig sure did look sharp.

Ah, thanks very much then.  This is where I'll attempt to wear it tomorrow & see if I can at least 'stimulate some discussion' (how's that for a euphemism for 'jacking-up'!).

Does anyone think that the female mess dress looks a bit...outdated?  Personally I think the guy who designs uniforms didn't put too much thought into making an aesthetically-pleasing mess dress for females.  Just 'switch those trousers for a skirt.' Mind you, that mentality produced an...

Thanks for the information, Miss Hardie!  MARS2 sounds like a lot of fun, especially since I'm reg force I have a chance of sailing aboard the Oriole.

I'm glad to have stimulated so much discussion on this interesting topic but no one has even attempted to answer my question?  Which is: Does (did) the navy wear the poppy on their white-tops (& now berets)? Or is it purely an army thing?

Not to dig up old news, but it's that time of year again and though it is a moot point now, I wonder if the poppy-on-headdress was strictly army or if we sailors did it, too? And on which side of the cap badge was it worn? 

Glad to hear about the abundance of variation, I'm all for that, especially since the mess is hardly like a 'normal' parade--no one observes a standard pause when eating their soup, so a perfectly uniform set of uniforms would loose any effect it might have (and to whom would the effect be...

Pretty sad about the snipers.  Isn't there a lot of American and Canadian interaction, such that snubbing these PPCLI snipers would mean snubbing many units?  Or do the Canadians and Americans generally work separately? As for the 'strict recruiting standards,' isn't there a problem with at...

I've also got a curiosity about rank history.  I've read over the 'Ranks and Responsibilities' (as well as most of canadiansoldiers.com) but I've still got a few questions such as: Why did Brigadier become Brigadier-General?  All the other general ranks are 'x-general' to distinguish the holder...

Okay, so one more beef with the current uniform: what is the deal with not showing one's shirt cuffs?  I can understand it being a tradition with the army because they wear a tunic which was originally worn over underwear (i.e. a union suit, and, later, a t-shirt) and thus would show no cuff...

The way clothes evolve I often imagine a future CF where CADPAT, flight-suits, and boarding-party coveralls are the mess dress...! But I digress, here's a question:  why can only Capt(N)s and above wear a tailcoat instead of a mess jacket?  (Or a boatcloak for that matter.)  Obviously they are...