You probably don't think much about how your uniform was made before you put it on. Before your dress blue jumper can be pulled over your head, however, it has to start with the wool off a sheep's back. Navy dress uniforms are made from wool-worsted fabric. Worsted means that the longest, best wool fibers are used. The shorter wool fibers are used to make woolens, and the difference in comfort is very noticeable, says Junior Waldo, executive vice president and division manufacturing manager of Burlington Menswear, the nation's primary producer of fabric for career apparel.
Worsted fabric is a more luxurious product in look and feel.
That includes uniforms for the military, police, fire and sheriff departments, airlines and just about anyone else who needs quality uniforms. We've perfected color matching, so we can provide you with a uniform fabric today that will match something you bought from us five or ten years ago. Today we might have eleven. There are fewer different military uniforms. And they're made better.