Friday, July 25, 2014

OFFENDER OF THE MONTH: General Rick Hillier

General (Ret'd) Rick Hillier, OC, OMM, ONL, MSC, CD

Unfortunately our former Chief of the Defence Staff, a well respected and appropriately recognized retired soldier, has succumbed to the dreaded Instant Dictator Syndrome. The blog email box has been flooded over the past two months with emails about Canada's former top solider dawning three neck insignia simultaneously, while in civilian attire. 


With all due respect General, you don't need to do this. Your group of miniature medals more than adequately reflects your service to Canada, and one neck insignia is always enough when it comes to wearing mess dress or civilian clothing. 



One neck gong is enough Sir...

Even the precedence for his OC, CMM and ONL is wrong, and in Black Tie/Dinner Jacket the neck insignia is to be worn from miniature width ribbon. If you want to look like a Soviet olympian then I suppose this is the path to follow. Let us hope that one of General Hillier's colleagues will eventually point out that he is out of dress and looks rather desperate to impress with three neck insignia. 

Major-General George Pearkes.
Paragon of propriety and correct civilian deportment.






As noted in our post of October 9, 2010, if the VC winning Major General George R. Pearkes, VC, PC, CC, CB, DSO, MC, CD, (also a Knight of the Order of Saint John and a Commander of the US Legion of Merit) who was entitled to four neck decorations, could get by with wearing one neck gong at a time while in civilian attire, why can't others?


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6 comments:

  1. GinoJuly 28, 2014 at 10:18 AM

    His other fashion faux pas extend to wearing a notched lapel dinner jacket, a lapel pin, and having the band of his tie riding up over his collar. You can't tell his waist covering, but a turn down collar should really be worn if he is wearing a cummerbund.

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  3. GinoJuly 31, 2014 at 7:59 PM

    Just to be clear, I have nothing against lapel pins per se, they just have no place on a dinner jacket. Quite gauche.

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  4. UnknownSeptember 22, 2014 at 10:24 PM

    I was at a Government House, Victoria, event recently to welcome Their Royal Highnesses the Earl and Countess of Wessex to BC. I was amazed by the number of attendees wearing miniatures before 6pm, including some Order of Canada recipients!

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