08-22-2011, 01:55 PM
I think that Al-Muel may have been exactly correct.
It turns out the the reverse of the buttons is date "60"!
So this tunic apparently began life as a dress tunic under the 1959 regulations, which could indicate that the holes in the tunic were originally for the wear of orders. In looking at the interior of the shoulders it is clear that there were at one time another set of shoulder boards on the jacket. So it may be that this was a jacket with dress shoulder boards and, perhaps when a promotion came in later years, it was made into an everyday service tunic by replacing the lower rank dress boards with the service style shoulder boards. And by that time the collar tabs with gold frames had become standard for the daily service wear.
It turns out the the reverse of the buttons is date "60"!
So this tunic apparently began life as a dress tunic under the 1959 regulations, which could indicate that the holes in the tunic were originally for the wear of orders. In looking at the interior of the shoulders it is clear that there were at one time another set of shoulder boards on the jacket. So it may be that this was a jacket with dress shoulder boards and, perhaps when a promotion came in later years, it was made into an everyday service tunic by replacing the lower rank dress boards with the service style shoulder boards. And by that time the collar tabs with gold frames had become standard for the daily service wear.
