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Aristus

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7. I grew up with the term 'olive drab', so that's what I always called them.
Mon Jun 23, 2014, 09:10 AM
Jun 2014

I went to Basic about 5 years into the BDU era, and everything before that, to me, was olive drab.

The khakis of the 70's and early 80's, if I remember correctly, were a polyester, no-iron blend. They didn't strike me as being terribly comfortable. (I still have some of my Dad's uniform items in storage out in the garage.) Were your khakis in the 60's a blend, or cotton gabardine?

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