Right bit of a discussion as to what to wear for huskey.
I think its acompromise between realism, practicality, economy and uniformity.
Photo evidence leads us to see it was khaki drill uniforms unblancoed webbing and red berets *sometimes* with a denison smock.
However... thats a lot of new kit for most of us to buy especially when we've all spent a year getting our NWE impression top notch.
This is what i propose is the dress order:
Headgear: maroon beret or steel helmet.
Jacket: Denison (for uniformitys sake)
Trousers: Denim or KD or Serge
Webbing: blancoed (again for uniformity and we've all spent ages sorting blanco out 
)
If its too hot for dennys then khaki shirts (you can get a modern khaki collared shirt for £3 at anchor supplies) wwii wool shirts or aertex shirts.
I think that gives us a fair bit of freedom but also makes us look like a unit which is one of the great things about being in PBI.
Objections, views, suggestions?
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
My only addition to that is that blancoed webbing looks rubbish on a KD shirt, so if you do go down to that then unblancoed is preferred.
But nowhere near as rubbish as motley assortment of blancoed and unblancoed webbing is going to look
The key here i think is uniformity and what do the majority of us have?
who has unblancoed webbing.
I know you do and i think barry and anne might.
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
As detailed elsewhere Gadge and been discussed for a while now, I have unblanco'd stuff too (esp. for a Med event!)
As I've just spent a whole evening blanco-ing 2 sets of webbing then that will be what I'm using. I'm not scrubbing it clean or buying any more. Sorry.
I'm happy with blancoed being worn with Denny and Unblancoed with KDs...
I suspect those that don't have KDs will also not have unblancoed webbing (and vice-versa)... so there should be no issues!
LOL, I don't think anyone is expecting blanco to be scrubbed off!
2 sets??? You could have had blanco'd and unblanco'd 
It may look rubbish... But in actual fact a mix of webbing/uniform etc... may be appropriate for this anyway.
It is Italy after all... In pictures you see wild differences even within sections...
I'd not stress about it.
If people want to use unblancoed webbing, then let them...
I would say though for the initial glider load it would be best if we were more-or-less all the same.
The other set is for Jimbob who will be joining us for his first event. Plus this is Britain...sorry, SICILY, so it's guaranteed to piss it down the whole weekend. A tenner to a quid for whoever styles out the KD shorts combo (thinks of Yith and nervously texts local bookie to hedge the bet).
more importantly its WALES... 
If its nasty and muddy then I certainly won't be using unblancoed webbing... My unblancoed stuff will not clean up so well!
On a side note - I used waxy blanco with the rub-it, soak-it, scrub-it method. 2 full sets with a double helping for the belts and I only used about a quarter of the block 
Ah... You'd never get the waxy stuff out anyway... no matter how much you scrubbed.
As far as 'warm weather' gear (well, warm for wales, at least...) goes, i take it denim blouses are ok?
yes.
I agree with Gadge's original post - uniformity is the way to go.
We do have two sets of webbing now and will put both in the car so can blend in whatever the majority end up doing.
Heh, I'll pass on a bit of intelligence - the Germans are roaring with laughter at the blanco'd/unblanco'd debate. In fairness, it is a bit ridiculous.
Unblanco'd webbing was the order of the day for the med. If all you have is blanco'd kit then that's what you will wear. Get over it - they didn't bother about 65 years ago, they had a war to win! It's not even a PBI thing really, the one and only PBI game had players in green berets not maroon playing a different reg! Ah wait, it's OK, all the ensembles matched! 
The hun will be laughing on the other side of their sausage-munching faces soon !!! (once we get this blanco malarkey sorted out....and have a nice brew-up...)
Missing the point Dave.
It may have been discussed elsewhere and i dont give a flying feck what the german players think but this is the *PBI* discussion on it.
As one of the organisers of PBI i'd like out guys to trot out with some uniformity - its one of the reasons we do PBI...
I dont care which it is but it makes sense if we do the same.
In a section/platoon it would have been all one way or the other... not mixed dress. Thats how it works in the forces then as now.
Personally I cant be bothered to buy a new set for one game, i'd prefer us all to use blancoed kit if im pushed.
The majority of us have blancoed webbing, makes sense we all stick to it in my book.
I find it more amusing the german players are that bothered about what other folk wear, have they not got any interesting stuff of their own to do?
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
the one and only PBI game had players in green berets not maroon playing a different reg! Ah wait, it's OK, all the ensembles matched!
Sorry who was in a green beret at varsity... i must have missed that?
Seriously dave if you think its to anal - fine but its what we've always been about trying to look like a proper section and gaming together as one.
edit: sorry but i'm annoyed.
I've just come back to read these comments and CiA is about getting what *you* want from wwii airsoft and taking it to the level your comfortable with - if some of us want to discuss greater realism/accuracy/uniformity then i really don't feel you should lampoon folk in a group who have all *chosen* to take it that step further.
If its not your cup of tea then fine i respect that but it is what the majority of us in PBI do want - in fact its why we set PBI up, we dont force it on other cia members or indeed other wwii airsofters. I'm just a little put out that you find discussing a kit list for an event ridiculous (especially as an individual with an interest in re-enactment per se)... its no secret that PBI wants to take WWII airsoft a step closer to historical re-enactment & I dont feel we should be belittled (especially by another PBI member) for doing so.
As for comments about 'one and only PBI game' remember that we put our planned summer game on a backburner partly not to affect sales for Huskey...
Sorry Dave but those comments wound me up somewhat.
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
Wind you up? Shouldn't do and that wasn't the intention (as I am sure you know).
It's just two weeks to the event and it's a little late to be prescribing dress code!
I think this is the key statement of yours - 'Personally I cant be bothered to buy a new set for one game'. Which is fair enough - other can and do. But it's at odds with your other comments.
Dress code should be related to the game as a priority - this is a Mediterranean game, therefore med kit is the order of the day. That's why for Varsity PBI went not as South Staffs, but Ox and Bucks - it's about the realism you describe, taking things a bit further. If you want to be historically accurate then don't have blanco'd webbing or wool battledress etc etc.
However, CiA dress rules being what they are allow a large degree of license, therefore players can wear what they want (withing reason) - and if PBI rules are that you must wear full South Staffs European Theatre kit to all events, then that's cool.
I wasn't lampooning nor belittling PBI's aspirations at all, indeed I have taken them much further myself as has Yith- you might accuse me of being anal, not me of you!
So, there you go, if matching outfits is the order of the day that's fine, I'll won't be representing PBI at the event. However, I will be concentrating on what matters to me and that's giving players a cracking weekend's game.
(Side note: As I mentioned in another thread CiA have pushed the WW2 gaming boundary twice this year giving chaps a chance to gear up for Russian and Med/North Africa and the player response hasn't been overwhelming. Fantastic efforts by some but not mass enthusiasm. I think we can say that all future events will be within the scope now and just about to be played out and not going for such ambitious scenarios. Also, no green berets at Varsity - senior moment - it was maroon badges but O&B badges.)