Anyone know where I can get hold of the old style British Army "shirts, itchy"? I've trawled many of the online surplus stores, but all they seem to do it the Soldier 95 norwegian shirts.
Woolen Army Shirt
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Couldn't find one but I did find a British Army Fleece, which is a bargain at £14.95.
http://www.surplusandadventure.com/ishop/800/shopscr2533.html
http://www.surplusandadventure.com/ishop/800/shopscr2533.html
The Shirt KF, (I remembered it as Kamel Fur!!) may crop up in surplus stores in UK. Try ebay, although I just had a quick go and had no joy. Dockers shirts come up sometimes on Ebay and they are 100% woolen apart from the nylon reinforcing to the pockets and collar. Good shirts if you can get them.
I think this is one
I think this is one
Hey! I've got one of those woolen shirts. It's my smoking jacket for when I go outside in the dead of a bitter Canadian winter. 
What're those army fleeces like? How do they compare to the wooly pully sweater which I'm pretty sure is still being issued as a kit. Warmer? Colder? Obviously the new fleece isn't near as itchy.
Adam
What're those army fleeces like? How do they compare to the wooly pully sweater which I'm pretty sure is still being issued as a kit. Warmer? Colder? Obviously the new fleece isn't near as itchy.
Adam
Try Soldier of Fortune at www.sofmilitary.co.uk . As well as current issue kit, they also have a reenactors catalogue which might have what you're looking for.
Just for intrest we had issused to us as sleeping bag liners made of KF so it was twice as itchy, we use to shave the insde of the shirts :aargh4:
LOL, I remember doing that.
When partnered with the thermal shirt, Jersey and jacket, they are lovely and warm.
When partnered with the thermal shirt, Jersey and jacket, they are lovely and warm.
Only go for the old hairy KF shirt if you want your nipples rubbed of! 
We used to put plasters over the nips for protection before a speed tab - but maybe we were just wimps!
The Dockers shirts are a god buy on e-bay but be careful how you wash them. Mine shrank
and the nylon backing on the cuffs and pocket tabs has caused them to curl up in a scruffy fashion - I had not planned to be ironing my bushcraft shirts.
My advice - unless you particularly want to be army-barmy
- is to get a Swanni shirt. There bombproof and warm - you won't regret it. 
Ted W
We used to put plasters over the nips for protection before a speed tab - but maybe we were just wimps! The Dockers shirts are a god buy on e-bay but be careful how you wash them. Mine shrank
and the nylon backing on the cuffs and pocket tabs has caused them to curl up in a scruffy fashion - I had not planned to be ironing my bushcraft shirts.My advice - unless you particularly want to be army-barmy
- is to get a Swanni shirt. There bombproof and warm - you won't regret it. Ted W
My dockers shirts also suffer from the dreaded curly cheese effect! If i remember to lay them flat whilst wet and hang them to dry on a coat hanger, it doesn't seem to be so bad.
I don't care if I look scruffy whilst bushcrafting anyway, so long as I am warm and enjoying myself!!
I don't care if I look scruffy whilst bushcrafting anyway, so long as I am warm and enjoying myself!!
Sorry tedw, but that's a definate wimp trait. 
I wore them for years, even when doing CFTs, :AR15firin etc. And when am I going to be doing that again? Not in the near future.
It's not about being "army barmy", for me, it's about being warm on a budget, and you have to admit, the shirt, layered with other kit, would fit both.
As for the Swanni shirt - I always thought they were very expensive for what they are. Just MOHO, but I'll have another look at them.
I wore them for years, even when doing CFTs, :AR15firin etc. And when am I going to be doing that again? Not in the near future.It's not about being "army barmy", for me, it's about being warm on a budget, and you have to admit, the shirt, layered with other kit, would fit both.
As for the Swanni shirt - I always thought they were very expensive for what they are. Just MOHO, but I'll have another look at them.
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