Uniform, Dress Work

For everyday work wear, in environments or occasions where the CF greens would not be appropriate, personnel were issued the Work Dress uniform. This consisted of rifle-green work trousers; a zippered rifle-green work jacket; a “lagoon green” work shirt; and beret. The jacket collar was worn open. The shirt was either worn with a tie, or with the collar open and over the jacket collar.

Uniform, Dress Work - workUniform, Dress Work - imagesFor a brief period in the 1980s, ascots or dickeys (an ascot tie or ascot is a neckband with wide pointed wings,) in regimental or branch colours were worn inside the open shirt collar.

Example (right) UN member wearing an ascot.

“Work dress”, as it was commonly known, was a more informal uniform, originally for day-to-day wear in garrison or on base out of the public eye. It usually consisted of work trousers and either a dress shirt or work shirt. A greenish blue (teal) shirt was issued, but often the linden green CF shirt was worn, with an optional sweater. Army personnel later also wore a disruptive-pattern jacket.

CF Work Dress was adopted at the same time as the CF Green uniform. The work dress uniform consisted of a dark green cotton jacket, trousers and baseball cap. The second pattern of work dress jacket came with epaulettes and the rank insignia was worn on “slip-ons” by all ranks.

Jackets, trousers, skirts, neckties, sweaters, scarves, raincoats, overcoat, and parkas were in the specific environmental colours of navy blue (actually black) for the Navy, rifle green for the Army, lighter blue for the Air Force, and olive green for the special operations branch. Shirts were white, linden green, light blue, and tan, respectively. Work Dress was withdrawn in the late 1980s when Garrison Dress took its place.

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