The dungaree shirt with short sleeves is another inovation that came after my time. We had no choice. Small stores offered only "shirts, chambray, blue," which came with long sleeves, and we rolled them up at the risk of getting put on report for being out of uniform. Another change we would have welcomed that came later: adoption of a shortened jumper, making it unnecessary to have a tailor eliminate the blouse effect we hated. Only the most hard-nosed officer would write up a man for "mutilating" his uniform by having the jumper altered. The same type wouldn't let a man off the ship wearing white sox with dress blues. Nits were meant to be picked, right?
-- Fran