What's with all the camo and OD gear

i have always (well, since my mom stopped dressing me) opted for a style that was always just a little different from everyone else's. i like BDUs and other good functioning clothing regardless of how fashionable it is. i do my best to avoid wearing t shirts with logos and things on them unless i really want to endorse that thing. i don't like offering companies free advertising on my chest. when going out to hang out with my buddies, i usually dress in all black, functional clothes, and carry a shoulder messenger style bag and emergency pack around my waist. i have been wearing shoulder bags ( i knew them as satchels) since i read about one in a book years and years ago way before they were ever fashionable or popular. one thing i don't like about those popular gothic outfits are that they are incredibly unfunctionable and inneficient, mostly because of all of the chains and things hanging everywhere.
 
Ebbtide: I dig Zoot Suits, wore my old man's until it became out of fashion! What year was that? You are absolutely right, fashion sucks. Ponytailers, those troubled people, are now wearing hair nets at Kentucky Fried Chicken.
 
Well I still have my ponytail, but fortunately I don't work in the food industry.

Zoot Suits?
For the actual years we'd have to look it up.
Post WW2?
Late 40's - early 50's?
 
I'd say late 40's. And I'm not THAT old. I found it in the closet and wore it to Christmas cocktail parties for a goof. It was clean and well made and the fabric (raw silk) was in excellent condition.
 
The skull thing is kinda weird in the "real world" but the Punisher skull (like the comic book/movie vigilante) has gotten put on a lot of patches for American military personnel. I've seen them from SEAL Team 4, 3, and a lot of others just think its really cool/intimidating. Kinda off topic but thought some folks here might find it interesting. The fake camo (ie not really used for hiding) always looked dumb to me.
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http://www.camotech.com/sew/custom.htm
 
Ebbtide, ponytails are cool...so I've heard ;)...a friend of mind currently is going through a job search with a ponytail and slightly balding head...his last job was at a printing plant, I'm surprised he didn't get his head yanked off his neck.
 
i had a ponytail until july 17 2005. it was all the way to my butt. it took three years to grow from my shoulders. i donated 15 inches to locks of love (a program that gives wigs to kids with cancer)

it was a pest to always have people trying to kick me out of public bathrooms (i really did look like a girl...)
 
Do you have a website for them...locks of love?
Did you mail in your hair or do they work with certain hair cutters/salons/stylist (what ever)?
 
Yep, I'll confirm that the camo clothing is a trend. I, too, remember it being popular in the early-mid '80's. It's amazing to see the trends of my childhood coming back to haunt me! The skull trend is somewhat new to me, though.

Does anyone else here find the use of the Death's Head skull by Walmart disturbing? Surely, someone there knew what that was and ok'd it anyways... perhaps I'll completely boycott them now.
 
Wish I had known about Locksoflove before. I just had 12" cut from my hair. Still got a tail though and when I go to get it trimmed again, I'll call around to see who honors locksoflove and let them do it.
 
Thanx.
I found one website, don't remember the name, but they just wanted you to send in the hair...
I wondered if that was legit...
This sounds like the real deal.
Thanx again.
 
The ones that drive me crazy are the "Tacticool" or "Blactical" crowd that walk around looking like extras in a Bond movie. Mall ninja chic.

I don't were camo to stand out, I wear it to blend in, in the bush. I don't want anyone to guess I'm "tactical" until they're headed for the bright light. Mac



I'm a 41 year old jeans, sneakers, and polo shirt kind of guy.
 
Trout Tamer said:
Yep, I'll confirm that the camo clothing is a trend. I, too, remember it being popular in the early-mid '80's. It's amazing to see the trends of my childhood coming back to haunt me! The skull trend is somewhat new to me, though.

Does anyone else here find the use of the Death's Head skull by Walmart disturbing? Surely, someone there knew what that was and ok'd it anyways... perhaps I'll completely boycott them now.
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Ditto on the 80's thing... I find it hilarious/depressing to see these little kids today running around in Misfits t-shirts and whatnot... don't get me started on punk rock.

RE: WalMart and the SS skull shirts: I heard on ABC radio news the other day that plenty people copmplained about them, and they're being pulled from stores. Get one now while you still can! :rolleyes:
 
Boots, Jeans and T-shirts for me since mom quit trying to make me look like a Beatle. ;) She finally quit trying to dress me and I had to let my wife have a try.:D Fired the first 2, but this ones working out.

My kids all have camo or OD, from my field jackets to my 5 year olds pink camo pants. So what, it's a trend. If I like it, I'll use it. I don't like it when someone has to ruin a good thing though, like a good trench coat. I had mine from my Army days for years. I quit wearing it after the school shootings started escalating, and kids were wearing them to look like they were carrying.:thumbdn:

BTW, I wear Camo and Skulls in the form of tattoos.;)
 
Ah the mid eighties! ACIIIIIIIIIIDDDDDDDDDD..... house house house house music , i was deep in the then still underground industrial house scene, vibrant fluorescent colours, and dancing in trance untill the morning came. Never saw one fight one an acid party (xtc?) and continued into the techno era until the mid 90's. It all became mainstream
front 242, anne clarck, illegal rave's, Praga Khan

http://techno1992.free.fr/samples/something-for-your-mind.mp3
 
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