... Now I gotta get me some spurs. 
Hrm... I've been pondering about what a formal dress-uniform for the Roughriders should be like. To be certain, each squadron and flight crew is going to be allowed to have their own uniform, but for those special occasions when the Roughriders need to present a more formal face, a dress uniform would be a good thing.
So far, I've been envisioning something highly reminiscent of the uniform for the US Army's cavalry riders - circa the Texas Revolution, of course. Like the uniforms of the US Navy, though, there would be summertime white and wintertime blue versions. The female uniform, however, would remain the same, only cut for a female's proportions. Make-up regulations for females are similar to the US Armed Services; only coservative make-up is allowed when in dress uniform. Otherwise, the sky's the limit. Hair, however, is only limited by your ability to put a uniform cover over it.
(Until the Roughriders dress uniform becomes widly known, it is used by the Senshi as a method to thin out the candidates to be assigned to the command of Sir Benjamin Rhodes of Atalante - the candidates are simply told that this uniform will be used for dress occasions instead of their fukus. The drop rate for this initial test was forty percent until word eventually got out.)
One final note is that while uniforms are pretty much a free-for-all on 36 Atalante (save for the dress uniforms), skinsuits are restricted to emergency EVA use only to keep 'accidents' from occuring. If one simply must be worn, then something must be worn over it. On females, it would be prefered if it is something they are not about to 'fall out of' so as not to cause 'accidents.'
It is not that Benjamin dislikes busty girls - though he does mentally wince whenever he comes accross women that are even more endowed the Tendos ("Ye gods! Just looking at them gives me lower back pain!") - it's just that the number of accidents at 36 Atalante did have a marked drop once that guideline was put into place. That, and Gina punches hard. Very, very hard with sharp little fists.
Hrm... I've been pondering about what a formal dress-uniform for the Roughriders should be like. To be certain, each squadron and flight crew is going to be allowed to have their own uniform, but for those special occasions when the Roughriders need to present a more formal face, a dress uniform would be a good thing.
So far, I've been envisioning something highly reminiscent of the uniform for the US Army's cavalry riders - circa the Texas Revolution, of course. Like the uniforms of the US Navy, though, there would be summertime white and wintertime blue versions. The female uniform, however, would remain the same, only cut for a female's proportions. Make-up regulations for females are similar to the US Armed Services; only coservative make-up is allowed when in dress uniform. Otherwise, the sky's the limit. Hair, however, is only limited by your ability to put a uniform cover over it.
(Until the Roughriders dress uniform becomes widly known, it is used by the Senshi as a method to thin out the candidates to be assigned to the command of Sir Benjamin Rhodes of Atalante - the candidates are simply told that this uniform will be used for dress occasions instead of their fukus. The drop rate for this initial test was forty percent until word eventually got out.)
One final note is that while uniforms are pretty much a free-for-all on 36 Atalante (save for the dress uniforms), skinsuits are restricted to emergency EVA use only to keep 'accidents' from occuring. If one simply must be worn, then something must be worn over it. On females, it would be prefered if it is something they are not about to 'fall out of' so as not to cause 'accidents.'
It is not that Benjamin dislikes busty girls - though he does mentally wince whenever he comes accross women that are even more endowed the Tendos ("Ye gods! Just looking at them gives me lower back pain!") - it's just that the number of accidents at 36 Atalante did have a marked drop once that guideline was put into place. That, and Gina punches hard. Very, very hard with sharp little fists.