The decade before the new China, traffic policemen's winter uniforms were blue "big crown" caps, blue jackets and blue trousers. Those on shift wore white raglan sleeve that reached shoulder. Summer uniforms were white "big crown" caps, white jackets and blue trousers. When cultural revolution raged tempestuously, po/icemen's uniforms completely copied the army uniforms - the color changed into green, the "big crown" cap changed into the cloth liberation cap with a round top, and black leather shoes changed into green rubber sole cloth shoes. To differ it from the red pentagon army badge, policemen still wore their policeman badge in front of the cap.
It was the "going up to mountain and down to countryside" movement participated by 30 million city young people that pushed "service dress rage" to another climax. In 1964, the first bunch of young intellectual young men hurried to Xinjiang to reclaim the wasteland and founded Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. When they were seen off at the train station, they wore green service dresses and military caps, but without cap badges and collar badges. In 1968, large scale of young intellectuals "going up to mountain and down to countryside" movement began, they all wore green service dresses dispatched by the nation when they hurried to countryside or remote places.
Another important form of "everyone taking the responsibility of a soldier" was the possemen's drill. The simulative army drill was rather common. Workers, intellectuals and school students were all proud of wearing army uniforms. Those
who didn't wear service dress would wear blue or grey uniforms, but they still wore green army caps and rubber sole shoes and carried army marching pack bags, army satchels and kettles. This times of "everyone wearing army uniforms" gradually ended along with tile advent of China's Reform and Opening Door policy.
In the middle and later period of 1980s, there was another round of "everyone wearing army uniform" trend - every winter, people of all classes, sexes, and social positions wore army cotton padded overcoats. Because that traffic vehicle was mainly bicycles in those times, indoor clothes were not suitable for outside cold weather and the newly arisen winter proofing coat was too short to cover the legs, the makeshift was to buy an inexpensive but practical army overcoat. Army overcoat became trendy dress.
This army dress trend lasted about ten years. Until the beginning of 1990s, when leather coats and down coats appeared
in the market in large volume, army overcoats gradually faded from one's memory.
