Word: caps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Things are pretty quiet around the White House until Johnny comes march ing home. He quickly changes into his khaki uniform, Sam Browne belt and over seas cap, which are as near to G.I. as regulations allow. (He broods over the fact that he cannot wear regulation buttons, insignia and decorations.) Sometimes he gets in an awkwardly uneven game of ping-pong with his mother, or a swim, but usually he breaks out of doors to climb trees and get all dirty. When this palls he remembers his ambition, and strides down to the guard house to help the soldiers...
...General's peaked cap was cocked rakishly over his left eye as he answered his stiffened driver's salute. Like many middle-aged bachelors, General Kreipe was a methodical man; every night his limousine left at the same hour for the eight-mile drive to his villa...
Major General Edwin M. ("Pa") Watson, military aide and special jester to President Roosevelt, got a feathery jest in his cap: the President made him "Principal Chief of the Seminole Tribe of Indians, Okla...
These are new summer uniforms for the women's services. For dress, Marine Women's Reserve Officers (left) will wear a neat white Palm Beach suit. Enlisted WACs (center) will wear a khaki tropical outfit similar to their officers'. An innovation: the garrison cap by Hatter Knox. WAVES and Spars (right) will wear slate-grey seersucker, instead of last year's blue cotton gabardine, which ran when washed. A feature: the fitted jacket with four pockets, one real, three false...
With a little more official latitude in the wearing of uniforms, it is interesting to watch for different combinations. Ask H. Peterson if it's O. K. to wear white cap covers with blue shirts. Classic attire seen thus far was khakis with a blue shirt and plastic buttons...