well, it was worth a try I suppose!
my uniform trousers are, by Red Cross standards, a fair fit. by this I mean I can fasten them without there being a danger of them firing the button across the room if I relax and they don’t slice me in two. I did ahve to add elastic to the waist so they don’t fall down but I can live with that, and I needed to chop several inches off the bottom of them cos it’s not their fault taht I’m a shortarse now is it. Trouble is, for all that the waist was baggy, the legs are somewhat of a drainpipe cut which is fine for wandering about in, sitting down in and driving in but really definitely not fine (as I found out the hard way last weekend) for squatting down to deal with someone on the floor in! If I were a bloke I’d be speaking in a very high pitched voice! So, I decided a small adjustment to the undercarriage was in order and added in a nice little gusset. But I’ve not quite got enough matching fabric to make it long enough for the widening to reach as low down the leg as in needs to so although I now have a very roomy middle (which no longer hangs quite right), it’s still way too snug just above the knee unless I remember to hitch them up as I squat which is just not practical if you ahve your mitts full of first aid bag! I’m now contemplating unpicking all that and putting the middle back to how it was and buying a meter of something similar to add in a strip at the outside edge down both sides…. Life would be so boring if I was a perfect size 10 now wouldn’t it!
It could be worse though, the St John have had a new image ready for them to provide first aid for the 2012 Olympics. I can’t find the pictures now, think they are on a site only Duke can access (saw tehm lst night on his laptop) but oh my…… day glo yellow baseball caps anyone? And beutifully tailored lines/sculpted polo shirts…. perfect for poster boys, not so perfect for your average shaped volenteer….. aparently the troops aren’t happy (and I can’t say as I blame them!)
Out of curiosity I did an image search on Google for “st john ambulance olympics uniform”.
I found this:
http://www.glazer.co.uk/News/st_john.html
Looks like they found some friendly marketing people who helped them get rid of some money they didn’t need.
Comment by Tim — July 25, 2008 @ 4:11 pm