17 Metaphors for uniforms

During this time Coronado chanced to learn that an officer was expected on board who would sail as far as San Diego; and, as all uniforms were bugbears to him, he watched for the new passenger with a certain amount of anxiety; taking care, by the way, to say nothing of him to Clara.

Gaudy uniforms were no longer the exception; a madness for fantastic brilliancy seized the people; soldiers in all kinds of colours and all kinds of dress filled the streets.

The service uniform is either cotton (summer) or woolen (winter) olive drab.

The roll of the drum roused the scholar to his daily work; a uniform with the imperial button was the only dress allowed to be worn; and the physical as well as the intellectual training was such, that very little additional preparation was required to qualify the inmate of the Lyceum for the duties and privations of the soldier's life.

Them blue uniforms was a nice change, too.

A soldier's uniform is court costume the world over.

All uniforms and articles of clothing issued to enlisted men, whether or not charged on their clothing allowance, remain the property of the United States and do not become the property of the soldier either before or after discharge from the service.

'Where, then, are your credentials, and what is your message?' 'My uniform is my credential, and my message is for your private ear.'

'It is not the French I fear so much as the Poles.' 'But my uniform will be a safeguard against either.' 'How can I thank you?'

The uniform, when it appeared, was frequently a coarse homespun gray, charily trimmed with red worsted, and stained with the rains and earth of the islands.

Since the senior officers of Marines never go to sea, the Commandant's own official uniform was the field-service khaki of a Staff officer.

It would have been easy for him, whose uniform was a voucher for his message, to gain his way through.

He says he has seen the French army marching, and he has just told me that their uniforms are all colors,red, blue, green, and so on.

The uniform of the king's guard was in itself a passport anywhere, and the face of old Catinat was so well known in the district that everyone drew back to clear a path for him towards his house.

Wherever the troops marched the public broke into cheers and every uniform was the center of an ovation.

The green-gray field-uniform is a remarkable piece of obliterative coloration.

It did not escape his eyes that to the general his uniform was an unfriendly thing.

17 Metaphors for  uniforms