How many suits does a man need?
When Jim finished his National Service he said that he wanted to get seven suits-one for each day of the week as he was fed up with wearing the same suit every day as he had to do whilst in uniform. I had no great aspirations as a suit wearer myself so on finishing my army stint I just reverted to sports jacket and slacks (not even smart casual). The uniform wearing bit had never bothered me either not being a very smart soldier may well have been the reason. Being in the Suez Canal Zone was not a great help either, khaki drill uniform was not easy to keep smart with sweat stains showing under your armpits within half an hour of getting dressed, and the white blanco being transferred from the webbing belt and cross straps to the shirt so I was always a lot more comfortable in the sloppy fatigue gear. No one expected that to be smart whilst you were going around picking up rubbish or whitewashing stones around the compound. The KD uniform was not just a pain to wear and keep sm...