What sweaters?
All the uniform tunics from the pilots on down were made from the same velour material until the 3rd season when they went for a doubleknit fabric.
The One Thing You Could Change, TOS Edition...
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All the uniform tunics from the pilots on down were made from the same velour material until the 3rd season when they went for a doubleknit fabric.
We might be running into a regionalism here. In some European countries, sweater doesn't mean a top knitted of yarn (the American meaning), it just refers to various pullovers and sweatshirt-type garments including the men's TOS shirts.
If it was 1964 and we were starting from scratch, here's something I would change: NCC-1701. I would work out a ship-class scheme that had some in-universe meaning (in real life, NC was the aircraft prefix for "United States, Commercial", and the second C was added for aesthetics. Later, Franz Joseph came up with the retronym "Naval Construction Contract," which makes no sense to paint on the hull of every ship).
So the prefix would be different for each type of Starfleet ship, instead of having everything say NCC. Which, of course, TOS never did in an aired episode, but FJ and the movies did. And the Enterprise would not need a four-digit number, because there wouldn't be so many ships of that identical class.
Pullover also works!
Looking at the pictures again, you're right that they weren't sweaters, but they still are really classy, and couldn't be much more expensive than the later costumes.
I am not a fan of the pilot uniforms, except that the women got pants.
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