Might belong in the social club, but it was in the news this AM...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101215...fashionoffbeat

Russia's chic uniform 'sends soldiers to hospital'

MOSCOW (AFP) – Russia's sharp new military uniforms, created by a top fashion designer, have landed hundreds in the hospital after proving too thin to withstand ferocious winter cold, a state daily said Wednesday.

Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported that between 60 and 250 servicemen have been laid up with everything from flu to pneumonia as Arctic chills sweep through the country's northern reaches...

Somebody forgot about General Winter. Bit of irony there I guess, though I don't suppose the troops are amused!