<P>This highly detailed book uses over 400 illustrations - both period images and new colour photographs of original items - to show the clothing of both Officers and Ratings in World War II and during the years leading up to it, when Naval uniforms underwent significant modernization.</P><P>The illustrations are supported by detailed text describing the development and use of Naval clothing of the time. Its contents include Officers'' clothing and effects; Class 1 and III Ratings'' clothing and effects; seamens'' clothing and effects; battledress and tropical clothing; miscellaneous clothing, personal effects and substantive and non-substantive insignia. This is the first book to offer a detailed study of Royal Navy clothing in the 1930s and World War II and will be a vital resource for collectors, historians and enthusiasts.</P>