The latest in khaki

[Jonathan Lighter]

I guess "nautical blue" is like "navy blue" but less militaristic.  I've been aware of "loden" for at least a dozen years, probably more like twenty.

  As long as "khaki" is back again, I find a U. S. Marine memoir of WWI, published in 1920, actually refers to the 1916 Marine Corps uniform as "khaki."  The official name was "forest green," closer to "sage-green," as I see it.

  JL

  Chris F Waigl <chris at LASCRIBE.NET> wrote:
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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

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