Archive of Scouts-L List for October 1990: Class B Uniform
Class B Uniform  Thu, 4 Oct 1990 09:31:33 CDT  I think the class
B uniform is really stupid. My belief is based on two reasons.
First, the thing is outrageously overpriced. The shorts alone
cost ... get this... $22.50. If you've ever seen them, you'd
know that that price is way too steep. I rarely pay that much
for a pair of long pants, much less shorts. Sure, a lot of the
money goes back to the Scouting program, but still, selling the
shorts for that much can create a real hardship for single or
low-income parents (or, as someone said, low-income staff
members). Just think how one scout could feel if his parent(s)
weren't able to buy him the uniform everyone else in the troop
had.  Second, the theroy behind the class B uniform is that
because it looks less uniformlike, more kids will wear it
because it won't identify them as Boy Scouts to their peers.
Well, that's a good idea, but the giant feur-de-lis over the
left breast kind of defeats the purpo