Gurkha Shorts

[Highlander]

I have been wanting some new shorts for summer, and I don't find anything that doesn't just scream I am a sheeple. So, I was looking for Gurkha shorts and found them at WPG. As always lots of conversation over size, I ordered one size up as that's what most of the commenters recommended.

Good Looking shorts though.

http://onlinemilitaria.net/shopexd.asp?id=3270

 

[Baron Kurtz]

What's a sheeple?

The shorts KD (whichever postwar pattern with cross-over belts) are awesome, and very versatile. I'm talking about originals, I have no idea about the repros. TBH, they should fit anywhere 2-3" above and below the stated size, designed as they were to deal with the rigours of hot weather and jungle warfare - lots of water taken in in the AM, and lots of sweating during the day making the waistline very variable and necessitating significant waistband circumference adjustments.

As an aside, the only shorts with cross-over belts I've ever found specifically produced for Ghurka troops were "Shorts, Jungle Green, Ghurka Regiments" from the middle 1960s (I think they were 1964 dated). The Ghurka's, according to Alan Eardley, protested at the impracticalities of these shorts.

 

[Highlander]

Great Info Baron...Thanks

 

[Smithy]

Alan Eardley

Now there is a member who is greatly missed around here. Are you still in touch with him BK?

Absolute shame he is not active here anymore.

 

[Oldsarge]

Someone still makes those? Surprising. The last pair I saw for sale was at Willis & Geiger.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

No. Alan has dropped off the map. noone I know who knew him has heard from him for a long while, and he doesn't respond to emails.[huh]

Now there is a member who is greatly missed around here. Are you still in touch with him BK?

Absolute shame he is not active here anymore.

 

[Smithy]

No. Alan has dropped off the map. noone I know who knew him has heard from him for a long while, and he doesn't respond to emails.[huh]

Sorry to hear that you haven't heard from him in awhile BK. His knowledge is definitely missed round here.