Likewise… Love a good tutorial video.
I must confess to doing mine like the US Marine Corps. Start by folding the sleeve along its length to remove the bulk from the folds. Looks cracking.
Need a further explanation/images
Bookmarked that … I see no reason why the method can’t be used for Dark Blues
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I think it’s something like this:
Where is the video where they finish that off?
This shows it well.
Although, I do a bit of a hybrid that I was shown by a USMC mate some years ago.
Starting with the longitudinal fold the same, but then I make my first ‘roll’ fold to just below the elbow. Then I fold again, coming up to that point, and my final fold then covers the cuff and brings everything above the elbow (similar to the way she starts that casual shirt fold).
But the key is that longitudinal fold at the start which removes all the ‘puffy bulk’ in the upper arm, hiding it in a pleat, and makes the folds snug around the bicep.
Oh, I see, that would probably work well with Working Blues as they’re less drainpipe cut than LW jackets. I thought you were talking about something like that casual shirt fold.
God I do love a thread revival,
we recently got a transferred CI to our Sqn, Who, during my drill lesson, decided to call out a cadet for wearing gloves using the old “we’re all uniform”. while he’s stood there in a fleece lined jacket and Joggy bottoms.
I asked him to go find me a paper copy of 818 (we don’t have one) and in the meantime the cadet was allowed to wear his gloves
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Next time tell him to go and ring 01-21-Do one
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Tell him to read a dictionary, as the definition of uniform (noun) does not mean everyone is wearing exactly the same thing.
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Try that at a Navy base & it’s a shout of “Man Overboard!!” 
Any time someone informs you of a rule and it comes with some stupid story about “wearing poppies close to your heart” or “not wearing watches on the saluting arm”, or even crap one-liners like “we’re all uniform”, I’d bet my baby girl they’ve never seen the rule in writing (or most of the time, even read a paragraph from the rule book).
A cool-sounding phrase is the biggest red flag that the rule that follows is nonsense (or on very rare occasions, is actually a custom, but the story is still nonsense).
Unfortunately, “Gp Capt Jones was taking an aspirin with his morning coffee while writing this particular foot pace measurement and took a rough stab at what he thought would work, like with the rest of it, really” just doesn’t sound as cool.
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in the case of
that certainly isn’t written down - all the RBL request is that the Poppy is worn with pride, not over the heart and not with the leaf pointing to 11 o’clock
So i completely second @MajorDisaster if it sounds convincing yet its never been heard before chances are its 
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The rule that doesn’t exist with regard to poppies that winds me up most is when they’re said to be mandatory.
Making them mandatory defeats the point of them.
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I know plenty of service personnel who just refuse to ever wear them. Power to them.
Got challenged once. “Young lady, where is your poppy, you ought to set an example!”
I’m literally in uniform, swinging my gongs on a parade and you dare to question my lack of poppy!?
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I haven’t worn one in years, even on a remembrance parade, every year I consider it, but usually some bit of heavy poppy ‘policing’, or a WO resharing the incorrect graphic telling me I have to wear one convinces me that the time is not yet right.
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We have loads of those too.
“You don’t wear X because the regiment was late to a parade once and as a punishment you aren’t allowed to wear it” or “You wear X as a punishment because the regiment ran away”, or other such codswallop.
Yeah, I’ve had sappers try to tell me the white lanyard or yellow stripe on the RA stable belt are for cowardice. As if the Army, which needs its regiments and corps to be able to recruit, would brand them with marks of cowardice.
That’s always been a Sapper claim, seems to be about the RHA cutting the guns and running and the RE getting their dark blue lanyard for going and getting them out and the RHA having to wear a yellow one as a disgrace.
It’s taught to them in training as if it’s fact (my old man loves to trot that story out), but I’ve never been able to find any reference to it, even at the CRE museum.
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