US Navy Jumper w/Pants- Liberty Dragon Cuffs . UA1137

United States Navy Jumper with Pants. Liberty Cuff’s type embroidery. Has dragon type design liberty cuffs, plus several other “liberty” embroidery. Pants also with liberty type artwork embroidery. Most likely 1940s (ww2) era. Worn condition.

Additional Notes: The WW2 dress blue navy jumper was a pullover blouse made of 16-ounce dark blue Melton wool, which was described by the Navy as “a stout, smooth woolen cloth with a short nap”. The yoke was made with a double layer of material and had a stylized seam coming to a downward point at mid-chest creating a design reminiscent of a ship’s bow parting the ocean. A number of prominent features marked the jumper including a square sailor’s collar; a V-neck; a small slit pocket above the left breast; an inside patch pocket with a flap and button located on the right chest; and shirt-style cuffs with each having two 25-line plastic anchor emblem buttons. Three lines of White tape and two stars adorned the collar as did white tape on the cuffs making the dress blue jumper easily distinguishable from its similar looking, but unadorned, cousin called the Undress Blue Jumper.

Liberty cuffs are a form of unauthorized decoration applied to the inside of the cuffs of military uniforms, which became popular in the U.S. Navy in the early 1900s through WW2 and Korea. Liberty cuffs were embroidered patches sewn on the inside cuffs of sailors’ uniform shirts, jackets, or jumpers; the patches or embroidery work could only be seen when the cuffs were rolled up, which the sailor would do while on “Liberty” or shore leave away from their ship.

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