The latest in khaki

[Laurence Horn]

>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.

LH

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