Whereas I find them completely absurd. As fancy dress uniforms, maybe, I could buy them. But these elaborate, heavy uniforms with their retro Hornblower-era design as everyday duty fatigues in the 23rd century? Preposterous! Now, if they'd ditched the heavy double-breasted jackets and just worn the turtlenecks for everyday use, those would've worked as fatigues, and been evocative of the pilot-era uniforms. But the insistence on having everyone wearing those fancy jackets all the time, day in and day out, was just ridiculous.
It was meant literally. The whole point, as Admiral Young says, is that Khan only had experience fighting battles on land and thus didn't have the mindset for space combat where the Z axis is as much in play as the X and Y. Indeed, that's one of the least silly things about TWOK, because it's one of the very few Trek productions where the planners of the space combat scenes remembered that space is 3-dimensional and made use of that fact. Most writers, directors, and FX artists in Hollywood are just as 2-dimensional in their thinking as Khan was.
