A brief answer. I believe hexagonal lugs were introduced before 1900 and shoulder titles with those lugs were in use well after WW2 through to anodised aluminium issues.
Slip-on cloth shoulder titles were issued towards the end of WW1 as a metal saving measure and usually in white embroidery or print/paint on khaki.
Black embroidery on khaki slip-ons were issued for wear on otherwise largely unadorned Battle Dress during early WW2 and although replaced by coloured shoulder titles from around 1943 they continued in use on Jungle Green and Khaki Drill clothing well after.
Tim
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