We also have carefully covered in cleaner’s bags my husband’s midshipman blues and white cap. No one in our family could possibly wear it now. He weighed no more than 135 pounds then and was 5’10”. Skinny little guy – 17 years old when he volunteered and just out of high school.
]]>Not sure. There’s Dad’s WW2 USN blues, and his Annapolis class ring, which are of a piece. I can’t wear the uniform (shorter and broader than he was) but the ring fits. I THINK those are the oldest clothes. Blankets? Now there, I think there are a couple Civil-War-era in a chest someplace…
Of stuff I bought: a Union Bay sweater from 1988. Still fits, though it does look like it walked off the set of Ruthless People.
]]>I should specify we wore the uniform jackett not the whole uniform. In fact I only got it because my brother wore it when he was ROTC and it still had all the insignia and rank on it and that was a code violation for him. To quote the Who — ‘I wear my wartime coat in the wind and sleet.”
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