I Am Looking for a Proper Commando Sweater

[Jack Daw]

I need to get a pic to post.

[kiltedinUSMC]

on Friday I saw this post and I did try it with my leatherneck tartan
( I was going to work and needed to get gas since your not allowed to wear cammies off base) green sweater leatherneck tartan and boots and it look very causal yet It got me in the mood for work on a Friday.

[Jack Daw]

That looks mighty grand, Tom! Mine looks very much like it.

[irishrob]

Check out this http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWA:IT&ih=013 . There are enough sweaters to outfit a bunch of us.

Rob

[Nervous Jock]

Can someone put me out my misery, where is the connection that V neck sweaters are Commando jumpers?

[Jack Daw]

Perhaps I am too loose with the English. A V-neck sweater in the Commando style - close-fitting, ribbed pattern, with shoulder and elbow patches. I've seen a Highland Regiment pipe band wear such. Feeling better?

[Nervous Jock]

Perhaps I am too loose with the English. A V-neck sweater in the Commando style - close-fitting, ribbed pattern, with shoulder and elbow patches. I've seen a Highland Regiment pipe band wear such. Feeling better?

Yes, we're just being a wee bit free with the word "Commando" The ribbed jersey, or standard Wooly Pully, as in my earlier photo, was generic to both the Army and RM. Our pipe band have just purchased V neck sweaters in the style you mentioned but they are just called pullovers. Using the "C" would would imply we are trying to be something we aren't.

[Chef]

Jock,

In the US the term commando sweater is commonly used to describe this style of pullover.

[ccga3359]

Found this on the subject.

WARNING

ADULT LANGUAGE INVOLVED

For those too faint-hearted to visit I discovered that the female version of the "Wooly-pully" is called a "Lumpy Jumper" for whatever reason.