If you could redesign the uniform, what would you add to it?

[AlexCorbin]

Had to shoe string mine!

[WestlandScout]

There are Velcro backed small rank slides for UBACS etc. They are ally. Shame they don’t have RAF Air Cadets versions. Another reason we should have gone with pins or an RAFAC backing not a whole new set of slides.

[talon]

I am sure someone will make them if you order a decent amount.

[steve679]

Had to shoe string mine!

is this not a SOP???

[incubus]

I had to do that on my last jersey but then upgraded and the current issue seems to fit a lot better.

On the subject of jerseys, any redesign should get rid of the need to wear a tie with a jumper. In fact, that single change to the current regs (reverting to what we had in not too long ago) would suit me.

[Mr_OZ]

I live air rec as well but it’s hard to do badges for

Will the badge for Air Rev have a photo of a really small tutor in it in the top right hand corner?

[Moray]

maybe, or a C-5M Super Galaxy

[wdimagineer2b]

A rank slide on MTP/DPM trousers for those times you need to be wearing a t-shirt only

I did once see a CWO with a rank side attached to the belt loops. He had chopped the back of it and attached Velcro so could wear his rank slide when In a T-shirt.

I don’t need a rank slide for people to know I’m in charge. Anyone who does is doing it wrong.

There is a precedent for that, sort of…
PTIs when wearing No12D (i.e. MTP trousers with PTI Vest) are to wear their rank on the OG webbing belt when jackets are removed.

0529. When the Jacket has been removed Badges of Rank are to be displayed: all PTIs are to wear the appropriate rank slider on the front of the webbing belt.

[angus]

maybe, or a C-5M Super Galaxy

Nah, cadets might get a flight in a Galaxy…

[Moray]

I’d rather be in the c-130 fuselage it can haul around inside it

[GrandMaster_Flush]

In all seriousness, it could just be a small bar with “AR” in it in either blue, bronze, silver or gold.

Doesn’t have to look like the thing it is. Leadership doesn’t look leadershippy, the road matching bar is just 3 coloured blocks, and radio and cyber - while being two distinct things - are virtually identical.

[JSC]

Might just be me on this, but this style (Please excuse me for not knowing its name) of RAF Uniform would be rather nice.

Image source:

The Royal Airforce College Cranwell (1961)

[Moray]

It’s the old flying jackets isn’t it?

[Moray]

Don’t like the socks though

[JSC]

I’m not sure on their exact name. Also I do believe those ‘socks’ are puttees, but just in the blue/grey colour.

[incubus]

Battle Dress isn’t it?

[wilf_san]

(Please excuse me for not knowing its name)

Battledress, 1947 Pattern, Blue-grey

would be rather nice

Hmm. These were reputedly a lot nicer to wear than the War Service ones, but they’re not ideal. And blue blanco-ed '37-pattern belts/webbing was a bit of a pain.

I’m not sure on their exact name

Anklets…but often they were called gaiters

Also I do believe those ‘socks’ are puttees

Negative- puttees were horrendous. Utterly. Think of ankle bandages made from new sacks

[JSC]

Thank you very much. I didn’t know a single bit of that before you said.

[wilf_san]

I didn’t know a single bit of that before you said

You should watch some episodes of the underated-but-good classic series “Get Some In”…highly-recommended. From my father’s National Service era, set 1950s into the 1960s, but filmed in the late '70s

[wdimagineer2b]

Fag for the Corporal…