B.D.U.'s outdoors AND in town ?

[upnorth]

Canvas pants are better/tougher. Dickies canvas pants are $23 at wallyworld.

Actually I have wearing those gold coloured canvas pants for 2-3 years while detecting, they seem to be the only thing that stands up to it. I am a little embarrassed that I didn't put much thought into the get up. I wore the combo a few times and got mixed looks from mild smirks, to curiosity, to...who cares. I don't feel comfortable with the combo in town and I will split it up, Jacket and Dickies, B.D.U. pants and hoody kind of thing. I have zero military or whatever fetish, but I love the outdoors and figured that this would work, considering how tough the material is. I kind of got the whole thing a bit sideways. Splitting the combo up in town seems to be a rational approach for around here. I often layer with all kinds of stuff like a dark blue coverall. I have been out in the howling wind and cold rain, whatever, and warmth dictates the get up then. I will never be a cat walk fashion statement out there, lol. I just try to wash the stuff now and then and not run around with big flapping rips in the clothes. Yes we are judged by how we are dressed and I need access to land trespass permissions at times. Farmers get how I dress, but I have to be a little more self cognizant in town. I almost always have a Predator\Lesche hand digging tool in my weak hand and it looks like a giant knife. I am chatted up enough times while out there that I must be reasonably safe/approachable looking. The full B.D.U. thing is a touch of freak show around here in town. I've adapted.

 

[Mannlicher]

you really have to do something WAY out of the ordinary, to attract attention. Even full camo won't always do the job. To avoid even that slight possibility though, just buy your BDU clothes in khaki, coyote brown, or olive drab. Problem, if there really ever was one, solved.