Jack: Where in india are you getting your uniforms? I ask because I haven't heard much good about some of the makers there. Replicators is the one that comes to mind. But your uniforms all seem to be very good quality.
Actually, I have gotten pretty much everything from Replicaters (as they spell it). I don't really have any complaints .... although you have to be as careful as possible to describe precisely what you want in detail (if it is not a standard, "stock" item they make regularly) or they may make assumptions without clarifying things ..... particularly if you have them working from pictures of what you want, and something isn't entirely clear in the pictures.
The only real problem I have had in that regard is my Scottish-pattern field frock, which I had them make up based largely on this composite image of figures from Osprey Men-At-Arms volumes, showing a Sergeant of the Black Watch on the left and an officer of the King's Own Scottish Borderers on the right -
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I failed to notice that in both images only a single flap-covered skirt pocket is visible, on the
right side of the frock (i.e. left side of each image). Of course, that is simply because the artist in each case chanced to show it that way - only because the Sergeant's ammunition pouch on his left side is covering it and because the officer is somewhat turned away. However,
they noticed it .... and my frock came with only a single skirt pocket on the right side. When I pointed out the error, they asked me to take very careful and exact measurements of the pocket flap on the frock, so they could make a second matching flap and send it to me to sew onto the frock. That was certainly acceptable to me, and is what ended up being done. There is no pocket under the flap, of course, but I don't really use the existing pocket anyway, as putting anything of any bulk into it just causes an unsightly bulge .... and also because if the frock is worn with field equipment such pockets are not really accessible ..... i.e. blocked by the holster and ammunition pouch of an officer's kit, and by the ammunition pouches of an Other Rank -
This is actually my "batman" Roger, whom many of you have met, wearing the frock at one of the Musters (.... he is not quite as big as I am, so it doesn't fit him particularly well .....)