Today, it’s impossible to think of the American military without its customary camouflage uniforms. This tradition hearkens ...

“The British Army adopted khaki serge for its service uniform in 1902 and for the battledress field uniform 1939-1962,” says Thomas. “Khaki serge was a much heavier fabric than khaki drill ...

cultural historian and the author of British Army Uniform and the First World War: Men in Khaki. The solution was khaki, a drab brown color that evoked the environment soldiers occupied in India ...

Military clothing, accessories and gadgets have time and again informed both menswear and womenswear. So much so that these ...

Of the nearly 15,000 he found in the online archive, “Fashion Army” re-contextualizes an edit of 350, featuring images of non-models from various military branches posing in uniform.

Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley was last week urged to buy blue dress uniforms for all Army enlisted men as a ... “Wartime khaki uniforms are drab and tiresome to the eye. . . .” Moreover ...

Uniforms therefore became duller, coming in shades of grey-green, khaki, olive or horizon blue. The Swiss army switched from dark blue to grey-green during the First World War. The Second World ...

Have you ever wondered why the Indian Army uses olive green colour so much? Earlier, uniforms used to be khaki. If we look at the history of soldiers' uniforms, it was mainly khaki coloured until ...