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Russian Trousers and the RAF 07:33 - May 9 with 403 viewsChurchman

The RAF has been around for 104 years. The attached article describes the origin of the blue colour of RAF uniforms. Basically, they wanted something distinctive when formed. The company making uniforms had a warehouse full of blue cloth for Cossack trousers that was no longer needed due to WW1 and the Russian Revolution.

https://www.forces.net/news/cloth-makers-invented-famous-raf-blue

That’s my odd fact of the week.
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