*Candy Whitehurst spent 43 years helping put the U.S. Navy Blue Angels in their distinctive blue-and-yellow ceremonial flight suits. Now the owner of Pensacola’s Black-owned Sewing Box says that decades-long relationship has ended after the Navy awarded the work to another company — and she says nobody told her the contract was up for grabs.
“I would have never ever thought that my Blues would treat me like this,” Whitehurst told WEAR-TV. “Not in a million years.”
The loss is especially painful because the Blue Angels were the shop’s biggest customer. Whitehurst told WEAR she and her staff had produced thousands of uniforms over the years, handling the cutting, sewing, fittings and rush alterations required by the Navy’s elite flight demonstration squadron…