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    I think WowBagger has hit it on the head, I too think it's an RAF battledress blouse.

    Somebody might have cut up a pair of matching battledress trousers to get the fabric to make the somewhat crude cuffs.

    Battledress in RAF blue was issued beginning in 1942 and in Royal Navy blue beginning in 1943.

    The battledress blouse in the Ebay auction is the 1949 pattern, which has lapels more or less like ordinary suit jackets.

    The 1949 pattern was worn up until the end of battledress (1961).

    So without any other information I might guess that this is a modified RAF 1949 pattern battledress blouse worn in an RAF pipe band.

    Aha! I found a photo of a pipe band wearing these.

    http://www.eyrewaves.co.uk/rspba/cho...ics/band1a.jpg

    We should keep in mind that battledress was extremely influential and popular- during WWII the German army and US army adopted copies of it- and in the post-WWII era many civilian pipe bands adopted it too.
    Last edited by OC Richard; 28th July 18 at 04:09 AM.
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