One reason New Yorkers rush to don uniforms is that so many are immigrants.
Kids can don uniforms, fire a petard, build a Bailey bridge and drive a tank, on a quest to understand the famous invasion.
Not only does Ms. Smith herself don uniforms historically made for men, a kind of military drag that complicates the supporting roles women played in these periods, she also upends the premise that historical re-enactments are only about celebrating war; instead, they might be more about community and acceptable outlets for creativity in a culture focused on consumerism and technology.
Asymmetrical warfare suggests that the enemy fights unfairly and in a thoroughly cowardly fashion, regularly lurking behind and mixing with civilians ("hostages"), because that enemy doesn't have the moxie to don uniforms and stand toe-to-toe in a "kinetic" smack-down with U.S. troops.
Mr. Malcolm, whose character morphs between a present-day tour guide and Lord Stirling, donned uniform and wig and delivered his first lines in the median strip of Fourth Avenue after dancing across lanes of choreographed traffic.
About 14 million children started the new school year across Turkey this week, donning uniforms and filling overcrowded classrooms.
To supervise this mass migration of nectar, a hundred and sixty-three Coca-Cola men donned uniforms and shuttled back and forth across the world as technical observers or, as they were more commonly known to the service men they ministered to, Coca-Cola colonels.
He then donned uniforms in a slew of film and television features, including roles as a German airman in Island at War (2004), an SS officer in The Last Drop (2005), and as British soldiers in the 2002 films Deathwatch and Ultimate Force, and in Colditz (2005).
Should make for a fun Sunday at Candlestick Park, where neither man will don a uniform.
A young woman from costume instructs me to don the uniform hanging in the wardrobe.
