They are scrubbing down the waist, washing the decks with brushes and squeejees and lashins of blue Mediterranean; they wear dungaree tunics, and trousers of dark blue and faded pale blues, with red cloth round their straw skull-caps, and are all in shadow-that colourful, melting, warm shade you have in the South in the afternoon.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
Bow, Two and Three, have skull-caps of lemon yellow and dull gold thread, and blue dungaree jackets faded and threadbare.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
The clothing turned out to be blue shirts and bright green dungaree overalls.
"A Yankee Flier in Italy"
Rutherford G. Montgomery