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Best place to buy scrubs in Austin, TX?

argylekneesocks — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:26:32 -0800

Please help me find flattering scrubs -- the uniform, not the TV comedy -- in Austin, TX. Complication: I have lots of curves! Do you have a brick and mortar recommendation? I am about 5'6" and normally wear a size 16 - 18. My figure is VERY busty, but only mildly hippy with slim legs.

Do you have a style or brand recommendation for scrubs for me? Is there a brick and mortar store with a wide selection so I can try stuff on?

I start a new scrubs-requiring job on Monday! Help!

Accio oxford!

miniminimarket — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:30:56 -0800

Who sells French Toast (or similar) school uniform shirts in the summer in New York City? Looking for the perfect white school uniform long sleeve shirt to complete a costume. Something close to this. Girls wear boys' shirts in the movies, and I'm small, about a boy's size 14. It cannot have a button-down collar. Is there a children's clothing store or even a uniform store in New York City that sells such a shirt during the summer? French Toast makes a nice one, but three places on their store locator have been closed / not in stock. Would rather get it in person at this point, just so I can try it on before.

Thanks in advance.

Seeking a lost hat from my lost youth

JonnyRotten — Tue, 19 May 2009 08:00:17 -0800

I used to have a brown UPS drives hat. It was the old style with the plastic buckle. It was given to me in 1998 or so by a UPS driver that I randomly asked if he knew where I could get a hat from. I was doing a school project where I wore a different style of hat every week for the entire school year. Anyway. At some point I lost the hat. I would like to get another one. Anyone know where I can get it, or just really sturdy hats with the nice plastic snap buckles any more? The ones with the holes and pegs in them. I had asked a friend that worked at UPS a few years back if he could get me one, but he said that after 911, they tightened control of that (not sure if its true or not).
So any information would be helpful.

Thanks!

Urgent care clinic in Seattle?

grouse — Sun, 10 May 2009 13:30:44 -0800

Can you recommend an urgent care clinic open on nights or weekends in Seattle? Preferably one somewhere near Fremont that is a Uniform Medical Plan provider. I have no current need—this is for future reference.

Where can I find a list of the sales rank of NFL jerseys?

ChasFile — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:05:17 -0800

How would you find a ranked list of professional sportsmens' jersey sales for a particular league during a particular season? For instance, where could you find a ranked list of the sales of NFL players' jerseys for 2007? I've Googled around and found various articles that list the top 20 or 25 in a particular year. That's a start, but really what I'd like is the source that those articles are based on, so I could get all the rankings, not just the top few. I'm as much interested in seeing the worst selling jerseys (spoiler: I know that the worst seller is New Orleans Saints nickelback Randall Gay) as I am in the best. Also, I'm most interested right now in the NFL — given its seasonal relevance — but I'd also be interested in seeing good data for any professional sports league.

They must be pulling that data from a list somewhere, and really what I'm interested in is seeing that list. Is it available anywhere online? Some of those articles list NFLShop.com as the source, but they don't get any more specific than that. I've looked around quite a bit on NFLShop.com but haven't found anything like this data.

I realize that it is proprietary sales data and therefore might not be available, but I feel like enough of those "This Year's Top Selling Jerseys" stories get published each year that the information must be out there, somewhere.

At worst, would it be possible to do this somehow based on, for instance, Amazon.com sales rankings? Is it possible to do a search on Amazon in such a way that it returns all the products in a category (like NFL jerseys, for instance) listed by sales rank?

Are there any other ways to get this kind of data or at least an approximation of it?

Bonus points if that list contains the actual sales figures, in addition to simply the rankings. Again, I realize that since this is proprietary sales data the chances are slim, but you never know. Again, since so many of those "This Year's Top Selling Jerseys" stories get published each year, I thought perhaps the data might be out there.

Uniformly unknown

Luddite — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:50:55 -0800

I have a photo of an ancestor in what I think is a Great War Austrian (well, Austro-Hungarian) uniform. Can anyone identify the insignia? Photograph here, with apologies for vicious cropping engendered by internet privacy paranoia.

Ancestor in question was born around 1895, and I believe he served in the Austro-Hungarian army in the war, but I could have been misinformed. From the baloons, I'd guess some sort of Observer corps, but any specifics, and what that cubular decoration is, would be interesting.

How to properly display an Army uniform jacket?

whoda — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:09:17 -0800

How to properly display part of an Army uniform in a display case? A customer of ours has a 'by the book' army husband and wants to make sure she doesn't break any rules displaying it. We have a customer who would like to have this uniform jacket mounted in a shadow box.
The women wants to make sure that she won't be displaying her husbands uniform improperly.
This would be displayed in her home, and I'm pretty sure the gentleman in question is retired.

The meat of the question is this :
Would it be acceptable to fold the bottom half of the jacket up and behind the top portion to allow just the area from the bottom of the chest pockets upwards to be displayed, and if so, should the arms cross or hang down straight before they get folded under?

Does anyone have any better ideas or suggestions?
Thank you

Different faces, different masks?

pdb — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:36:43 -0800

NFLter: Is there a science to face masks? I don't watch a lot of American football, so forgive me if this is a stupid question. I understand the point of a face mask, and I think I understand why they're different for different players - QB's and receivers need a clear field of vision (thus nothing close to the eyes) more than inside linemen, etc - but what I don't understand is, within the same position, why do different players have different face masks?

Is there a function that these masks serve other than protecting the face, or is the fact that, say, Linebacker A wears one with three horizontal bars and Linebacker B wears one with about 6 purely a personal preference?

Looking for help translating a couple of Dutch sentences.

leesh — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:12:55 -0800

Can someone translate a couple of Dutch sentences for me? Someone in the Netherlands linked to a picture I drew (of my old school uniform, as badly drawn here) and the following phrases were used:

Bekijk slechts de afbeelding.

Afbeelding kan verkleind worden weergegeven en auteursrechtelijk beschermd zijn.

I'm just curious about what they mean! This picture has a bizarrely large number of hits.

What gives with the strap on the foot?

snsranch — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:18:26 -0800

I was hanging out with a U.S. Navy officer. I noticed that he had something unknown to me on his feet... The strap was about 1/2 inch wide in a figure 8 shape. The first loop went around his foot, under the arch and over the top. The second loop, connected to the first was around the ankle. The top of that was up under the pant leg so it wasn't obvious what is was for.

He was wearing standard Navy Khakis. So it wasn't one of things for the blousing effect. Also the strap looked like elastic material like the stuff on underwear bands, but black.

Mormon underwear? Strap down for a side-arm? He's a bad-ass so ya never know. This is a silly question, but I just couldn't ask him about it.

Were in London would I be able to see a bearskin-wearing wearing foodguard of the Household Cavalry?

barbelith — Mon, 14 May 2007 07:14:41 -0800

Where in London would I be able to see—and get a decent photograph of—a bearskin wearing footguard of the Household Cavalry? I need to take a picture of a soldier wearing one of the traditional British uniforms and a bearskin hat. There's an example of what they look like on Flickr here. I need to use the image in some artwork, and as a result don't want to use someone else's copyrighted image and would like to take the picture myself. However, despite roaming around all the obvious areas in Central London I have not stumbled upon a single one. Any help in locating them would be very much appreciated.

What's up with Pat Tillman's uniform?

missed — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:44:43 -0800

Why is Pat Tillman's uniform censored? I just noticed while reading this article that Pat Tillman's uniform is censored of insignia and other identifying marks. Why? Is this a common practice that I've not ever noticed before?

Seabag a uniform?

The Confessor — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:23:28 -0800

Is the military seabag itself considered part of a uniform, such that a retiree is forbidden by the UCMJ to use it except for ceremonies and official functions? The one I was issued when I enlisted has tons more capacity than any other pack I currently possess, but I'd rather not break regulations even in such a way that is unlikely to be prosecuted. I'm several years out of the service, now, so I can't pose the question to my chain of command.

Why can't everyone play fancy dressup?

Dagobert — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 22:33:24 -0800

Uniform filter: So, the US Surgeon General gets to have a military-style uniform. Why doesn't the Attorney General also get one? They're both Generals...