New Royal Navy working dress

[Megan]

Replacing the blue shirt and darker blue trousers of Action Working Dress (No.4s) is a very dark blue rig.

See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-31950420

[Mervyn Mitton]

I suppose this is the way of things today  -  probably more wearable then previously.  However, in my opinion, they are now on a dress level with sewerage workers.   200 years of tradition  -  the collar, the white inner shirt, the white trousers  -  all gone.  Does no-one ever care about the past  history that made our armed forces  ?      Mervyn

[paul wood]

Probably no one will recognise them as sailors. I hope that at least they keep the traditional uniforms for parades and displays.

Paul

 

[SimonLMoore]

Nice to see myths being perpetuated by the BCC, the 7 trouser creases do not represent the 7 seas. Indeed if you were under a certain height (5' 6" I think) you only had 5.

Edit; wow, seems that graphic is put out by the RN itself. They don't seem to know their own history. The 3 stripes are also nothing to do with Nelson's victories, some original collars had only 2 and it was decided with the introduction of a uniform for all sailors in 1857 that 3 looked better, smarter, etc. It's not naval folklore, it's landlubber's folklore that's grown up around the uniform well after the fact.

[jf42]

Can one have an epaulette in the middle of one's chest?

 

[Dave Alexander]

This is just working dress, or No 4. The RN has dresses 1 thru 5 and the No 1 even has 3 classes. 1A, 1B and 1C. All the traditional stuff has been kept.