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    Rank and Patches on Military Jackets - Might I Offend a Veteran?

    When it comes to A2 jackets, a lot of us seem to be forgetting a few very crucial points: A2 jackets are not the exclusive property of the US Air Force. Airmen do not have some God-given exclusive right to wear them. There are numerous companies around the world who make them, and yet...
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    Rank and Patches on Military Jackets - Might I Offend a Veteran?

    Forgive me, I should have considered members outside the US. I was referring only to the US Military.
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    Rank and Patches on Military Jackets - Might I Offend a Veteran?

    With respect to everyone here, I'd like to set the record straight about some of the thing we're saying and claiming here. It IS NOT against the law for ANYONE to wear ANY military rank insignia, military patches of any kind including squadron patches, pilots' wings, or any other military...
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    Rank and Patches on Military Jackets - Might I Offend a Veteran?

    With all respect, I must disagree with what you said about wearing rank insignia. The military does not hold any exclusive rights to the wearing of rank insignia--cops, security guards, and some private groups use them too--and all military personnel know this. A specific person may get a bug...
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    Rank and Patches on Military Jackets - Might I Offend a Veteran?

    It depends. If you're wearing WWII stuff (I wear vintage WWII service caps all the time), anyone in the military will know that it's WWII, and almost certainly won't give a darn. If you're wearing modern military stuff--like patches, rank insignia, etc.--I'm sure they won't mind that either...
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    Did fedoras originate with the "upper class"?

    I've been wondering a lot lately about the name "fedora" and how long it's really been around. I'm nearly 60 years old, and I grew-up in Illinois. This is important just because 1) I remember the 1960s like it was yesterday--as well as some younger folks remember the '90s. And 2) Because I...
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    1947 USAF - service cap info

    That's "sparks, farts, and darts"--lightning bolts, clouds, and arrows.
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    An Intro to Hat Terminology: A Fedora Lounge Guide

    It could be a simple "whip stitch," where the stitching goes round-and-round the edge. This type of stitch has to be done by hand, for no machine can do this, and it is done after the brim is trimmed to size. On the other hand, it could be a "binding stitch," I believe it's called. It's like...
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    An Intro to Hat Terminology: A Fedora Lounge Guide

    A "snap brim" is a relatively new expression referring to a somewhat stiff brim that can be flipped or "snapped" down in the front, and then back up again, as apposed to a soft floppy brim which can not.
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    An Intro to Hat Terminology: A Fedora Lounge Guide

    Just two quick comments. Personally, I wouldn't say a "stingy brim" is a STYLE of hat, rather just a brim width. Also, I really don't think brims narrower than 2 inches were worn throughout most of the '50s--perhaps at the very end, but very narrow brims were worn almost exclusively throughout...
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    1947 USAF - service cap info

    No offense, but I highly doubt that. There was no such thing as a "transitional" Air Force uniform. The USAF designed the blue uniform in 1949. Before that, from '47 to '49, the uniforms were just Army uniforms. When the blue uniform was designed in '49 it used black leather for bills...
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    1947 USAF - service cap info

    That's not a US Air Force cap. They have always used black leather. There are some very bizarre things on EBay. Usually the one selling it doesn't even know what he has. One problem is that everybody is looking for WWII Army Air Force "crushers," instead of WWII Army service caps. WWII AAF...
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    1947 USAF - service cap info

    There were no weird variations. Until '49, the Air Force uniforms were the same as the Army's. In '49 a whole new uniform was designed. There was no mixing and matching of uniforms, other than the new silver and blue stripes were allowed on the older green uniforms, until '52 when all Airmen...
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    1947 USAF - service cap info

    The gold cap device was used by the Air Force until '49, but just because the uniform was still the same as the Army's. When the blue uniforms were issued beginning in '49, the devices, as well as bottoms and everything else, were silver. By June of '52, all airmen were required to wear the...
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    1947 USAF - service cap info

    No. The Air Force never allowed a gold Army cap device on a blue Air Force cap. There was a grace period from '49 to '52, but it was one uniform or the other, not mix and match. Whoever sold the cap probably just put a gold device on it.
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    1947 USAF - service cap info

    Sorry, that should be from '49 to '52.
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    1947 USAF - service cap info

    Sorry, the blue Air Force uniform dates to '49, not '47. There was a grace period until June of '52.
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    1947 USAF - service cap info

    No. Between '47 and '51 (I believe) Air Force personal could wear either the Army uniform with brown leather, or the new Air Force blue uniform with black leather. There was no mixing and matching of uniforms like you're thinking of. A green cap with black leather would be post Korean War.
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    1947 USAF - service cap info

    Also, the Air Force was the first to use braid (what ever you call that, I forgot) on the cap bills in '47. The Army followed sometime later, I don't know when exactly, but in all the photos I've seen during the Korean War, I haven't seen one Army officer wearing it, so it must have been after '53.
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    1947 USAF - service cap info

    That's sparks, farts, and darts--lightning bolts, clouds, and arrows. MacArthur's cap was not Filipino Army, it was one of his own design as Marshal of the Philippines. He designed it himself, and it was hand made (including hand sewn) by a Filipino woman. No disrespect.

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