TOMMIES TO BE RE-TAILORED
PLUS FOURS AND NORFOLK JACKETS SUGGESTED. ' GOODBYE TO BRASS BUTTONS. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received ‘This Day, 8.40 a.m.) LONDON, June 7. The Daily Telegraph says that farreaching reforms in British soldiers’ clothing and equipment, designed to lighten, the load carried and permit of -.freer movement, are being considered. The most startling recommendation is to replace the present field service cap ■by a wide brimmed felt hat, preferably smaller than the New Zealand or South African pattern, while steel helmets are to be stored and only re-issued .if trench warfare again arises. The tight-fitting jacket is condemned, and it is proposed that it should be replaced by the Norfolk type of jacket, with box-pleats at the back, no metal buttons or an open-necked ikhaki cricket shirt; and that trousers •be replaced by knickerbockers of a modified “plus fours” type.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 June 1932, Page 5
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