Genuine RAF/Air Cadet Issue Blue Grey Beret

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All uniform needs to be ironed, with greens the trousers, jacket and shirt all need to be ironed as best you can.

Use hot water and put it onto the piece of cotton wool, remove all excess water, and put into the Kiwi polish until the cotton wool has a surface covered in Kiwi polish. Our Royal Air Force Officers Beret are all manufactured to meet and exceed current UK MoD specifications. I have two berets myself, a silk one with sewn badge, but it doesn’t fit my hair if I don’t get my hair cut dead on every four weeks. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform.Place the tape around your head with the tape just above the top of your ears, wrap the tape around head making sure the tape lies just above your occipital bone (the small bump in the middle of the back of the head), do not pull the tape too tightly. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. Once you have a shine keep repeating the process, with new pieces of cotton wool, until your shoes are really shiny. They are also used as presentations to serving soldiers for promotions, retirements or event awards. The beret is made from 100% wool with a genuine leather headband and can be fitted and shaped to your requirements.

In between each hot and cold cycle put the beret on your head, holding the badge and pulling the excess material towards your right ear. Uniform is issued to cadets on a temporary basis: it belongs to the Royal Air Force throughout the time that you loan it, which is until you hand it back in at the end of your cadet career, or when you outgrow it. Once you have finished putting the polish onto both shoes, go back to the first one and use the brush used to remove the excess polish and buff the shoe, then repeat this on the second shoe. This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees.You would need the cardboard backing bit out of a standard beret and you have to open the lining and cut some holes to get the badge in. Welts should be free of dust, and the shoe must not be ‘cross laced’ Female shoes should be bulled at the front of the shoe and polished to a good shine on the body. The brassard will need to be iron so there are no creases, but the temperate will need to be turned down on your iron so that it doesn’t melt. A good way to get better creases is to put a little bit of dry soap along the creases on the inside of the trouser leg.

I am currently in the CCF (Air Cadet) but unfortunately, as I am not a UK citizen, I will not be able to serve in the RAF in later life. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Unlike many direct sale companies this means we understand manufacturing and product development, not just selling. Your brassard should not have any creases in it and should be occasionally ironed on the reverse side to iron out any creases. The Air Cadets badge must be above the left eye and must not be obscured when viewed from the front.They help us to identify popular products and understand your browsing habits so we can display relevant adverts to you. To do the welts take an old toothbrush and rub it into the polish so that there is a generous amount of polish on the toothbrush, and rub this onto the welts. Manufactured from 100% wool, this RAF beret also features a real leather headband with a 100% cotton lining. Take the brush you are going to use to put the polish on, and dip it into the polish, then rub this all over the shoe so that the shoe goes a dull matt black. The beret will then need to be placed on your head and shaped so the left side is folded down to your ear, and left to dry naturally.

A hair ribbon can be worn in the form of a bandeau, but it needs to be a similar colour to the hair or black. To iron the jumper you need to turn the temperature down on your iron and lightly run over it the jumpers surface to remove any bad creases.Females need to arrange their ‘hair in a manner which permits the uniform headdress to be worn correctly’. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Girls may wear discreet makeup and one simple gold stud on each ear if their ears are already pierced. An important element of military uniform, the RAF cap is also suitable as an Air Cadet beret and can be worn by all related army personnel. Does exactly what it says on the tin and I very much look forward to dealing with this trusted seller again in the near future.