We are expected to wear shirts with no side panel. No patches (other than an American flag, which is optional and placed on the sleeve) are allowed or expected. I have some issues with WI being behind the times (especially in how they handled the whole 3-person officiating thing), but they're spot on by not requiring patches on shirts.

Uniforms should be a state thing.

+1

Local associations shouldn't dictate uniform rules. They can't for players' unis and they shouldn't for officials.

Iaabo
 

If you are a member of IAABO, then you are required to wear a shirt with the current IAABO patch for the IAABO assignment.

A great reminder that there's yet another organization with it's fingers in the pie.

Required by whom? The only authority that matters is the guy who assigns my games.

Snaqs:

In the particular case that Zoochy is referring to, one assignor in our area exclusively uses officials from a local association that is IAABO affiliated (board 173) and requires the IAABO patch for his games.

And a VHSL patch is required.

If you can believe this, last year one of my rec assignors started to require we wear the gray striped shirts for the games he assigned. He set himself up to sell them to the refs. He said we would have up to one season to get them but then everyone had to wear them to all games or he would drop you from his list. This one season of "leeway" resulted in partners wearing different shirts, (I would bring both styles to games to match my partner) but since this is MS rec, it was no big deal. I bought two (not from him) since I worked for him two or three nights a week.

Now, it's a new season this year and he has been replaced as the assignor by that organization for the area in which I live. The new assignor expects everyone to wear the "standard" shirt. This means I have two of the gray striped ones just hanging in my closet, possibly forever.

Gotcha.

Connecticut Is 100% IAABO, We've Got The State All Locked Up ...
 

One? Implying more than one?

Here in the Land of Steady Habits, the entire state is 100% IAABO, as far as high school games, private prep school games, and many middle school games, are concerned. The state is divided into five local boards, pretty much divided up along county borders. Within each of the five local boards there is one, and only one, assignment commissioner, hired by each of the local boards, and that assignment commissioner assigns all high school games, private prep school games, and many middle school games, in that local board's geographic area.

Outside of recreation leagues, travel teams, etc., we never, ever, work with an official who is not an IAABO official from our local board. This even includes state tournament games, when crews are assigned by the state interscholastic governing body, with all members of that crew of two, or three, coming from the same local board.

Underneath our warmup jackets, that do show some local variations, we all look exactly the same. IAABO emblem on upper left of chest. American flag patch on middle of upper back. One exception, here, in my little corner of Connecticut, belts are neither encouraged, nor are they discouraged.

NYS is all IAABO for boys High School games. IAABO patch left breast, American Flag top center back of shirt. Girls High School is NCAA Women's shirt. Flag on Left sleeve. All must wear the appropriate shirt depending on boys or girls game.

Here in the Richmond area, that standard is a joke. WAY too many crews with mismatched (wide and regular) stripes.

Wouldn't fly here. Before the wide were authorized, we got repeated emails about guys wearing college uniforms. Now, the rule is all wear the same.

Partially true. I believe just one supplier chose to have two position embroidery of same logo on same side of shirt, which is pretty silly. Most suppliers have left sleeve logo. IMHO other shirt looks like something out of nascar.