Reinstating customs officers in a free-trade zone is quite something, although apparently Adam Smith, that doyen of free trade, did spend his last days strolling round his hometown in his father's customs uniform!
He knows an amazing number of specific details about work, trades, food, customs, uniforms, regulations and superstitions.
The lofty PC Wallyn required a custom-made uniform when he joined the force four years ago, and wears size 17 shoes.
He laughs off the attention that others pay to his appearance, then concedes that as a patrol officer and commander he never liked to wear his bulletproof vest because it marred the lines of his custom-made uniform shirts.
The building is getting something of a makeover inside, and the building's owners decided to extend that to custom-made uniforms that have just been delivered — 300 uniforms, each including 3 jackets, 4 pairs of slacks and 11 shirts.
It is even spending $9 million on individual gear for the soldiers, like kangaroo-leather gloves and custom-designed uniforms with built-in knee and elbow pads.
But there was significant damage to some of the museum's installations and exhibits, which include passports, signed documents, photographs and customs officials' uniforms, Roger Weber, the president of the Schengen Association that runs the free museum, told Luxemburger Wort.
(She left Europe in October 1939, a month after war was declared, and did not return until the end of 1944, when she wore smartly custom-tailored uniforms and was photographed with Hemingway -- a brandy in front of him, two in front of her).
Parents commonly arrange a match, though the custom is not uniform over the area.
