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#1
10-07-17, 03:58 PM
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White tape chevrons on khaki
I wouldn't go so far as to say this pattern of rank chevrons has been maligned but it's a fact that that they don't usually crop up in collectables lists.
Whatever, they have their own place in the historical development of rank insignia. I am referring to the summer issue of working dress KD shirt chevrons (white tape on khaki). There have been different shades of khaki in use and in fact the examples I have attached belonged mainly to RAF khaki with one or two RM examples. A sackful of these would be deserving of a study on their own! GTB 
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10-07-17, 04:34 PM
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Back int mah day you had to make them yourself out of mattress cover tapes sewn directly to the shirt.
They would also be made of white tape by tailors making personal purchase uniforms on postings to summy climes and applied directly to the garment or to a wristband.
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#3
10-07-17, 04:49 PM
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GTB
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10-07-17, 05:14 PM
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My wrist band worn 1970's
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10-07-17, 05:42 PM
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I arrived at camp after a weekend off (1975), was advised in strong language by three non commissioned individuals on seperate occassions that I was improperly dressed (nobody'd told me I was now a lance corporal), rapidly made.up a mattress tape stripe & sewed it to my sleeve - it lasted 5 minutes before an old sweat corporal laughed at me & making some comment about "laundry marks" ripped it off. I still have it, tucked away somewhere. I think it was 1975 that an issue of manufactured white tape chevrons pre-sewn to a role of olive green cotton began.
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#7
10-07-17, 05:50 PM
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[QUOTE=GTB;412365]Cool! First I've seen this usage
GTB[/QUOTR I first saw thay kind of wristband in Cyprus in 1978 when sergeants & WOs in the bn were authorised to wear a dark olive green suit of shirt & trousers with matching wristband rank badges.
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#8
10-07-17, 07:21 PM
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Stripes by the yard (or metre)!
Tim
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#9
10-07-17, 07:22 PM
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For those who like to see the back of badges!
Tim
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"Manui dat cognitio vires - Knowledge gives strength to the arm" "Better to know it but not need it than to need it and not know it!" "Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest."
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#10
10-07-17, 07:31 PM
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Dont you think they lack character compared to the "made it myself out of mattress tape / bell tent canvas / knicker elastic or whatever type?
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10-07-17, 08:15 PM
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Quote:
Tim
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"Manui dat cognitio vires - Knowledge gives strength to the arm" "Better to know it but not need it than to need it and not know it!" "Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest."
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#13
10-07-17, 08:39 PM
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Having the monopoly on local supplies of knicker elastic has benefits.......
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#15
13-07-17, 01:52 PM
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A few more examples.
Jon
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