Coolest Uniforms to Wear

Coolest uniform accessory that should be brought back? The Swagger stick!

Marine Officer's Boat cloak is second.
 
I should add, I hate the Marine dinner dress uniform.... looks like they were interrupted buttoning up the jacket.
 
At this time I will admit to thinking that gold-encrusted bicorne senior officer hat from the 1800’s into the early 1900’s is fascinating. Navy folks are usually seen wearing it fore and aft, and I don’t know if our Navy ever wore it “athwartships.” I just like the darn thing. So nautical looking.
 
I am not a fan of the Marine Dinner Dress. But it is still better than the female Navy Mess Dress. A ruffled shirt (or at least it used to be) and gold Cummerbund... I don’t even have words.
 
NavyHoops said:
I am not a fan of the Marine Dinner Dress. But it is still better than the female Navy Mess Dress. A ruffled shirt (or at least it used to be) and gold Cummerbund... I don’t even have words.
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Hoops!
I am proud to say I was one of the group of senior female Navy officers who got that nasty ruffled thing out of the Navy Uni Regs and quietly got a tailored, flat-front tux-pleated dress shirt in. That was in the early 2000’s.
 
Ugly female uniform items? Coast Guard females, before my time, had some weird ties that had the Coast Guard racing stripe on them... I'm not sure when they ended that, but it was a good idea.

Most comfortable non-flight suit, Coast Guard working blues (no longer used).
 
NavyHoops said:
Capt MJ on uniform boards doing the real work!
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Here’s how it really happened. A certain female Navy 3-star realized one of her collaterals was being on this board. She asked me and several other female officers, as well as senior enlisted women, what our top 3 uniform gripes were. The ruffled shirt was on everyone’s list. We developed a quick hit list, she went around and gained support from key players, MCPON, VCNO, CNP, etc., and walked it into the CNO and got it done. I tried for the shift from the suit-style service dress white jacket to a suitably tailored and seamed choker style for women at that time, but “the guys” didn’t like it. 🙄 That finally got changed in the last few years. She also did this for some non-gender-related items that had been hung up, just cut through the BS and got it done.

As for the cummerbund, well, it’s an equal opportunity point of the eternal list of uniform issues suitable for complaint.
 
WT Door said:
I imagine that Capt MJ was the invisible young hand that helped get rid of the Navy's salt and pepper uniform of the 80's. I did not like that uniform.
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Ah, the "Jamaican Police" uniform. Everything's irie, mon!

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I remember when the Navy switched it's enlisted uniforms. I was doing something at the Pentagon and I kept seeing Panamanian service members.... but eventually realized they were U.S. Navy sailors.
 
I have to laugh. We are so true to form.

Throw military people, whether current or former, a uniform topic, even “the coolest,” and at some point, we always cheerfully and enthusiastically work our way around to uniforms that we hated, were stupid, ugly, etc.
 
The conversation went something like this...

"Young man...young man?" "Yes ma'am?" "Are you the chief flight attendant? You seem much too young to be the pilot, but you're wearing that airline suit so I figure you must do something on board..."

:unhappy::bang:

The ONLY "good" uniform in the air force is the flight suit: period, end of statement.

Steve
 
In 98 or 99 while stationed at BUMED, my buddy Jim and I crossed the river and headed to the uniform store in the basement of the Navy Annex. As we got close to the MCPON’s office we saw him standing in the P-way. He was wearing newly approved soft shoulder boards that had been met with a lot of flack from chiefs for various reasons. They were his baby though and he proudly had them on his wooly pulley. It was always kind of dark in that area so I squinted and said, “Oh hey MCPON, I thought you were an officer.“ I thought he was going to pop an artery. He started screeching and went on about how the soft shoulder boards were different than the ones officers wore, blah, blah and how much work he put in to get them approved Yada Yada. I stood there listening and Jim, a two star chief, pulled me toward the stairs and when we got to the basement we busted out laughing. We saw him a few days later at Philips seafood at a retirement luncheon and ignored him like the plague.
 
For current U.S. military uniforms, USMC dress blues, no contest.

Looking back through history, I'm torn between the U.S. Continental Army uniform and that of the Roman Soldier.
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The Roman soldier uniform just looks bad-@ss. They were some tough, mean, brutal fighters. Imagine going into battle with a sword, spear, shield and helmet, you just knew it was going to be an ugly bloody day.

There's just something about the U.S. Continental Army uniform that always makes me think of the principles and ideals our military forefathers fought for and the Constitution it produced. The same Constitution we veterans on here have sworn to support and defend against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and the torch we pass to our future military leaders here on SAF.
 
Without question, the worst has to be any and all services attempt at a maternity service dress uniform. All of them consist of "here, would you like a bag to wear on top?"
 
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