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<font size=3>At 9/21/2007 06:14 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">You can say that again! My
memory of the color "chino" goes back to<br>
the 'Fifties. Back then, "chino" and "khaki" were, at
worst, variants<br>
of two of the colors available in a weave called "cotton
twill."<br>
Workmen wore blue, black, green, white, grey, etc. Students wore<br>
chino/khaki.</font></blockquote><br>
Having had the inspiration finally to look at the OED, I find:<br><br>
A cotton twill cloth, usu. khaki in colour; also (usu. pl.), a garment,
esp. trousers, made of this cloth. Freq. attrib.<br><br>
And an amusing 1961 D. Hamilton Removers (1962) xv. 84 Her skirt
was nicely tailored of some fine khaki material, or maybe the stuff is
called chino when it joins the aristocracy. <br><br>
Joel<br>
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