Talk:Mess jacket

Time line?[edit]

"But by 1936 the mess jacket had dissipated..." - Given that Alan Ladd wore a mess jacket in the 1948 film Saigon 1936 seems a little off. --Thefrood (talk) 23:58, 28 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"Civilians first adopted a white mess jacket in 1933 to wear in the hot and tropical weather of Palm Beach." Given that P.G. Wodehouse wrote of civilian Wooster wearing one in 1922 ("Right Ho, Jeeves"), 1933 seems a little off. 50.205.89.178 (talk) 12:57, 25 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Underclassmen?[edit]

"Underclassmen"? Surely that's an Americanism, or do they use the term in Eton? --129.215.164.3 (talk) 10:57, 23 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

From my reading, yes. But even if it is, there's no reason that a sentence referring to a British school can't be written in American English like the rest of the article. oknazevad (talk) 00:01, 16 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It seemed a jarring term to me, too. "First year pupils" would be unequivocal without sending speakers of non-US English to the dictionary. 31.185.153.227 (talk) 19:16, 19 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I followed the suggestion, though I'm not sure if it is just limited to first year students only, or just those below a certain age. If have to check. oknazevad (talk) 20:53, 19 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Merge proposal[edit]

I would not . A mess Jkt is male clothing. A spencer was worn by females. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.195.114.172 (talk) 07:04, 11 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

2018 merge proposal closed. Klbrain (talk) 14:04, 20 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]