What Price Glory sells a pretty good reproduction set, with giggle hat. The green is slightly more olive than JG, but passable. The hat brim is a tiny bit too wide and is flatter than it should be, but it also is passable. I’m very happy with mine.
Just wash it repeatadly. These were uniform worn at parades as well. So they were faded due to very heavy starching for parades. In 80s I used a proct no longer made. Pearsons Starch. It was thick starch meant to be diluted and sprayed on b4 ironing. Id pour it on straight let it soak and spread it out iron it in. That way youd get very sharp creases ans if you were carefull you could get to parade with the best creases with arms and legs still having a good inch still ironed stuck together. Starch faded them over time. New ones were issued, your last yr greens became "scungies" for fieldware excercises etc
We were still issued these old uniforms in the cadets in like 1986. Pot luck might get newer shirt with green buttons or brown. Same these pants or newer with 2 map pockets and green buttons
Those shirts were absolute gold in the field. The later shirts issued from 1972 had ridiculously large collars and extended vents on the sleeves which let you exposed to skin grafts when crawling in contact drills. This earlier shirt was much harder wearing and better suited for combat.
I only own repros and they are made of heavy cotton. Were the original greens made from heavy cotton or from lighter material? same question for pixies.
The basic greens are quite a heavyweight cotton, the 'Pixies' are lighter which was an intentional element of the design, much lighter weight material.
What Price Glory sells a pretty good reproduction set, with giggle hat. The green is slightly more olive than JG, but passable. The hat brim is a tiny bit too wide and is flatter than it should be, but it also is passable. I’m very happy with mine.
Just wash it repeatadly. These were uniform worn at parades as well. So they were faded due to very heavy starching for parades. In 80s I used a proct no longer made. Pearsons Starch. It was thick starch meant to be diluted and sprayed on b4 ironing. Id pour it on straight let it soak and spread it out iron it in. That way youd get very sharp creases ans if you were carefull you could get to parade with the best creases with arms and legs still having a good inch still ironed stuck together. Starch faded them over time. New ones were issued, your last yr greens became "scungies" for fieldware excercises etc
I own a pair of those repros and dyed them olive green.
the giggle hat is not vietnam @@ozdavemcgee2079
We were still issued these old uniforms in the cadets in like 1986. Pot luck might get newer shirt with green buttons or brown. Same these pants or newer with 2 map pockets and green buttons
Those shirts were absolute gold in the field. The later shirts issued from 1972 had ridiculously large collars and extended vents on the sleeves which let you exposed to skin grafts when crawling in contact drills. This earlier shirt was much harder wearing and better suited for combat.
See also Soldier: Uniforms of the Australian Army and the Soldiers who wore them.
Called JG’s in NZ & Australia 🇦🇺 🇳🇿
Propper makes a shirt that is very similar to this style of shirt, even the collar is stiffened with a piece of plastic.
The first shirt was part of the parade green which went when polys issued 64/65
Nice interesting video , thanks
Nineteen Sixty Something was a fairly bad year. The wines from that year are usually used for degreasing Leyland truck engines.
Small point: Pelaco is pronounced Pel-ACK-o.
I only own repros and they are made of heavy cotton. Were the original greens made from heavy cotton or from lighter material? same question for pixies.
The basic greens are quite a heavyweight cotton, the 'Pixies' are lighter which was an intentional element of the design, much lighter weight material.
Thank your for your answer!
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First set of trousers the same