Comments on: Uniforms http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/uniforms/ Reflections of a working writer and reader Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:37:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Corporate Clothing http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/uniforms/comment-page-1/#comment-110209 Corporate Clothing Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:44:50 +0000 http://www.johnbakersblog.co.uk/uniforms/#comment-110209 It is amazing the difference a simple colour change of a uniform can make. Good post. Thanks for the info It is amazing the difference a simple colour change of a uniform can make. Good post. Thanks for the info

]]> By: bloglily http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/uniforms/comment-page-1/#comment-19953 bloglily Sun, 31 Dec 2006 16:11:03 +0000 http://www.johnbakersblog.co.uk/uniforms/#comment-19953 What an interesting experiment. One thing I know is that the green blazer movement has not spread northward in the Bay Area. In fact, a few days ago I drove by a massive funeral for a San Francisco police officer who was killed while on duty. It was less a display of grief than a display of military might, with strict lines of police in blue uniforms standing at attention outside the cathedral where the funeral took place, police cars everywhere, and motorcycle cops in those shiny black SS boots waving traffic in inconvenient directions. I don't think they grieve their dead the same way in Menlo Park, twenty some miles south of San Francisco, right next to Palo Alto. Nor do I know if they still wear their green blazers, but it wouldn't be all that hard to do community policing in Menlo Park, because all its citizens are either busy studying at Stanford, funding start-ups, or starting them up themselves, and so never actually emerge onto the streets to commit the kind of crimes that require policing. The only difficulty with creating a community police force in Menlo Park comes not from its upright citizens, but from the fact that a police officer could never afford to live there. (Compare all that to Berkeley where I live, a place where the police are still bristling from decades of being the enemy, and a lingering suspicion that, in fact, they still are.) Happy New Year John! <strong>jb says</strong>: Thanks for that, BL. The whole question of uniforms and what they do to the wearers and the people who come into contact with them has fascinated me since my school days. Back then we wore an antiquated military uniform which actually looked quite silly, but I always remember the way that putting it on and taking it off made small but significant changes to our personalities. What an interesting experiment. One thing I know is that the green blazer movement has not spread northward in the Bay Area. In fact, a few days ago I drove by a massive funeral for a San Francisco police officer who was killed while on duty. It was less a display of grief than a display of military might, with strict lines of police in blue uniforms standing at attention outside the cathedral where the funeral took place, police cars everywhere, and motorcycle cops in those shiny black SS boots waving traffic in inconvenient directions. I don’t think they grieve their dead the same way in Menlo Park, twenty some miles south of San Francisco, right next to Palo Alto. Nor do I know if they still wear their green blazers, but it wouldn’t be all that hard to do community policing in Menlo Park, because all its citizens are either busy studying at Stanford, funding start-ups, or starting them up themselves, and so never actually emerge onto the streets to commit the kind of crimes that require policing. The only difficulty with creating a community police force in Menlo Park comes not from its upright citizens, but from the fact that a police officer could never afford to live there. (Compare all that to Berkeley where I live, a place where the police are still bristling from decades of being the enemy, and a lingering suspicion that, in fact, they still are.)

Happy New Year John!

jb says: Thanks for that, BL. The whole question of uniforms and what they do to the wearers and the people who come into contact with them has fascinated me since my school days. Back then we wore an antiquated military uniform which actually looked quite silly, but I always remember the way that putting it on and taking it off made small but significant changes to our personalities.

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