Work dress was replaced with Garrison Dress, which consisted of the old-style work dress pants, a disruptive-pattern jacket, a black web belt, a short-sleeve summer service dress shirt with the collar open and over the jacket collar, high paratrooper-style garrison boots, and a rifle-green crew-neck combat sweater.
Adopted in 1989, Garrison Dress was not worn in operational theatres and went out of wear in the mid-1990s, replaced by the CADPAT (Canadian Disruptive Pattern) combat uniform.
The garrison dress uniform was not popular with the combat arms, as the boots were easily scuffed, especially when doing manual labour. The jacket was heavily lined and restrictive. The belt was designed to ride very high on the body and served no practical purpose. Army troops generally avoided garrison dress for the Combat uniform, when possible, even in garrison. Land Force Western and Land Force Command Area instructed its units to wear the combat uniform for all occasions where garrison dress was deemed appropriate.
Shown above (left) is Garrison Dress, incorporating different coloured clothing for the three elements. The Army wore a camouflaged garrison dress jacket over a tan shirt and CF (rifle) green work dress trousers. The distinctive garrison dress jacket, a four-colour camouflage polyester jacket was not worn in the field. Two patterns of trousers were worn with Garrison Dress: the work dress trousers or medium green garrison dress trousers.
Left Garrison Boot Right Combat Boot