Originally Posted by
Excargodog
I knew a senior officer who - as a young captain - had been selected to test wear the blue flight suit McPeak had designed. Besides sharing the NORAD flight suit problem of little blue vegetation to assist with the E&E, it pretty much made the wearer look like a giant smurf according to the senior officer.
One of the majors rolled out a very smurf-like uniform a few years ago. The pilot group flat out refused to wear it, and are still in black pants, white shirts today. Their WO regional didn't display quite as much sack as the mainline guys, and they look ridiculous to this day.