GOING INTO UNIFORM

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21183, 2 November 1938, Page 10

GOING INTO UNIFORM

ITALIAN CIVIL SERVANTS Signor Mussolini has now decided that all Italian Civil Servants must wear uniform during working hours—a further step towards what seems to be the Fascist aim of getting every Italian into a uniform of some kind, says the Rome correspondent of “The Times.” A number of functionaries wearing the new winter and summer models were presented to the Duce, who expressed his approval of the designs, and ordered that the uniforms should be worn from October 28, the anniversary of the March on Rome. A start will be made with the personnel of the Rome offices. Within a year after October 28 all Civil Servants throughout the country must be supplied with the new dress. This, as was to be expected, is of strictly military cut. In winter it consists of a double-breasted tunic with metal buttons and shoulder straps, tumed-up trousers, both of dark blue material, and a peaked cap. In summer the uniform will be made of white material with single-breasted tunic and a white cap. For the lowest grades of Civil Servants the colour of the uniform will be lead-grey in winter and light grey in summer. Indications of rank will be worn on the sleeves, and emblems—the Roman Eagle and the Lictor’s Fasces—will be attached to the cap and to the tunic.