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Transom Cap Issue
- Thread starter Montana Kev
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TyBoo":30arj2qn said:Oh! I thought your were talking about that button flap on the back of old time pajamas.
Did I see that type of arrangement on the back of some navy sailors pants?
Or am I just getting mixed up again, either/and/or top to bottom, front to back, fore and aft, or athwartships? :lol:
Joe. :teeth :thup
For the record, in the '50's the issued wool dress blues were straight legged and had a zippered fly. They were folded inside out, with the inward crease along the side seams. Many, if not most, sailors also bought a set of tailor made dress blues, with bell bottoms, the thirteen button flap and inner lining colorfully decorated with embroidered dragons and such. The skin tight jumper had a zipper up one side. You carried your wallet in your waistband and your Luckys in your sock.thataway":20hlmzm2 said:Yeh...the Navy bell bottoms flap was in the front--laced in the back. Used to see alot of those on the Long Beach Pike a long time ago! Looked pretty inconvient, but not as inconvient as if the flap would have been in the back!
The uniforms I refered to were Navy Issue, WWII and a bit later--the Dragons etc came with occupation or mostly with Korea. The jumpers of that time were not zippered, but slip on. I had several given to me after WWII when I was diving at Catalina, and would come up almost blue after either clearing a boat's running gear from a mooring line, or anchor rode, or having retrieved a piece of Jewlery. Of course I didn't usually have a shirt with me, and chattering teeth got me more money ($10 was a lot of lawns to cut back then!, a cup of hot choclate and on several occasions one of the Navy Jumpers.
Hi Dr. Bob-Of course you are correct about different uniforms in different time frames. My dad's WW II dress blues were certainly "more salty" than my Korean era issue. To all, I apologize for hijacking this "Transom Cap" thread to discuss the thirteen button front flap on bell bottoms. It probably belongs in the "Forward Hatch' thread. o :wink: