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I never went to univ/college. Less than a month after HS, I traded in my jacket and tie(it was still the required dress at the time) and donned my battledress while learning how to properly wrap my puttees. Spit shining my ankle boots  took me forever to learn, well, awhile anyways. My ankle boots had metal horseshoes on their heels and toe taps, if you dragged your feet, making sparks in the dark, along with (of course) dire warnings from very unhappy ncos. I can still recall a few of their choice words to us. 

Fortunately, unification came along shortly afterwards. Battledress was replaced with CF Greens/black shoes(still spit shined) and combat dress/leather boots with rubber heels for field work. After 26 years I had the spit shining mastered.

Those were the days my friends, I thought they'd never end(a tear while writing this).

CWM_SupplyLine_Puttees_EN_FINAL_20140922 - CWM_SupplyLine_Puttees_EN_FINAL_20140922.pdf

To me this blog, is like the HS English that I enjoyed, thank you very much @Myr.

Take care all,

6 hours ago, sandrewn said:

I never went to univ/college. Less than a month after HS, I traded in my jacket and tie(it was still the required dress at the time) and donned my battledress while learning how to properly wrap my puttees. Spit shining my ankle boots  took me forever to learn, well, awhile anyways. My ankle boots had metal horseshoes on their heels and toe taps, if you dragged your feet, making sparks in the dark, along with (of course) dire warnings from very unhappy ncos. I can still recall a few of their choice words to us. 

Fortunately, unification came along shortly afterwards. Battledress was replaced with CF Greens/black shoes(still spit shined) and combat dress/leather boots with rubber heels for field work. After 26 years I had the spit shining mastered.

Those were the days my friends, I thought they'd never end(a tear while writing this).

CWM_SupplyLine_Puttees_EN_FINAL_20140922 - CWM_SupplyLine_Puttees_EN_FINAL_20140922.pdf

To me this blog, is like the HS English that I enjoyed, thank you very much @Myr.

 

Take care all,

The link you provided says: puttees were widely worn with ankle boots by British Empire soldiers during the First World War.  You couldn't possibly be that old!   

1 hour ago, drpaladin said:

They were still in use long after WWI 

That was a joke, drp.  That's why I used the giggling emoji.  

Just to put an end to this kerfuffle:

Canadian Battle Dress was phased out in the late 1960s and early 1970s, being replaced by the CF Green uniform. While Battle Dress was initially adopted from 1939 to the 1960s as the standard military attire, it was gradually replaced by the new uniform during this period. Specifically, the CF Green uniform began to be issued in the late 1960s and continued into the early 1970s, marking the end of Battle Dress's widespread use.