Fast forward to the start of the Cold War and PACFLT sailors: who can forget all the tailor shops in Hong Kong and Singapore (et al)where the "smartest" of the smartly dressed folks had an entire sea bag of hand-sewn uniforms created. I will not forget Peter Woo's outstanding work from a shop in the New Territories, where, for fifty bucks one could (literally) have a couple of uniforms fashioned from a bolt of cloth - and with the "change" remaining from the work, have a civilian suit made! I wore my "P.W." Service Dress Blues from LT to senior CDR quite properly speaking until they got shiney. Ahhh, it makes one long for return of the Red Bear... From his shop there in crowded Kowloon, He sewed as he whistled a tune, That, familiar, yet strange, For a sawbuck and change, Twas a song that transformed a cocoon... Steve
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