RAF dress jacket

[1930artdeco]

I think I found a British Ike style jacket at a vintage shop today. I don't know enough about British uniforms to make a decision if I should get it-not that I need it, but someone may. So can someone post a pic of a jacket please. This one had buttons that looked like two quills crossed with a crown on them. I did not find a label like our uniforms but the label it did have was seemed rather odd in the fact that it did not have any size, date or batch number on it. Then again I guess it could be private issue.

Mike

 

[Cobden]

By Ike jacket, I presume you mean a battledress (or, to be completely correct for the RAF, War Service Dress or Suits Aircrew) blouse?

RAF WSD/SA jackets during the war (from 1941 onwards - prior to that it was service dress) looked like this:

Fly fronted, scallopped pockets with a single pleat and no exposed buttons, stand and fall collar. They were made of heavy serge.

 

[1930artdeco]

Hi Cobden,

Thanks for the photo, that is what I saw in the store. The metal clasp at the waist was ornate with a hook. Can you maybe post a pic of the epilette/cuff buttons? Did they make these after the war and are the markedly different?

Mike

 

[Big Bertie]

I think I found a British Ike style jacket at a vintage shop today. I don't know enough about British uniforms to make a decision if I should get it-not that I need it, but someone may. So can someone post a pic of a jacket please. This one had buttons that looked like two quills crossed with a crown on them. I did not find a label like our uniforms but the label it did have was seemed rather odd in the fact that it did not have any size, date or batch number on it. Then again I guess it could be private issue.

Mike

Are you sure they were quills? It sounds a bit like the crest of some of the Gurkha regiments, such as the 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles, only they were kukris rather than quills. Even private issue uniform would be likely to have had some sort of label.