Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/17

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Hats Again -- I may have to give up my protests!
From: "A.H.SCHMIDT" <horst.schmidt@actek.com.au>
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 12:39:36 +1000

Marc James Small wrote:

> This gets frustrating.  Even the British Army is now selling military
> clothing -- I suspect as a recruiting tool, to make it seem "cool" to be
> togged out in the latest military garb, but one cannot help seeing this as
> a fund-raising tool under a parsiminous Labour government.  In any event,
> they -- the BRITISH Army, mind you, not the Yanks or the Canadians or even
> those fellows who walk around on the heads in the Antipodes -- are selling
> BASEBALL CAPS:
>
> http://www.army.mod.uk/army/index2.htm
>
> and follow the links.
>
> I am humiliated.  Brollies, maybe, or even a discretely marked bowler.  Or
> underwear.  Yes -- I could see them selling British Army underwear for the
> likes of Ted and his ilk.  But BASEBALL CAPS?  Why not be authentic and
> sell cricket caps?
>
> Marc
>
> msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
> Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!

  By far the best bit of British army clothing are the original Bombay
Blazers.
Very airy on hot days, and if you at a party and want to do a bit of
advertising, just sit down on to a chair without a table in front of you.

Regards Horst  (Nick name) Schmidt