The latest in khaki

[Joel S. Berson]

At 10/26/2007 08:49 PM, you wrote:
>>Joel S. Berson wrote:
>>>  From Eddie Bauer's "Holiday Book":
>>>
>>>"Casual cotton chinos with Nano-Tex (R)."  They come in loden,
>>>nautical blue, khaki, cognac, black, and (if these are colors for the
>>>pants and not just belts) black, brown, and light brown.
>>>
>>>These all look like various shades of brown in the catalog, and the
>>>khaki is the lightest -- a coffee with cream shade.
>>Even "loden" and "nautical blue"?
>>
>>Chris Waigl
>>who'd expect green and, well, blue
>I used to wear a "loden coat" in elementary school (so my mother
>always called it), and it was a kind of heavy olive-greenish brown
>wool.  But I agree that it's hard to imagine nautical blue as a shade
>of brown.

Well, wait 'til you receive your Eddie Bauer catalog -- yes, it's
coming, along with all the other holiday season junk mail -- and tell
me how well "nautical blue" (Let alone loden) has been rendered in
its printing!

Joel

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