The Language of Clothing

[Bruce Scott]

Prior to reading this if you'd asked me what color khaki was I would have said, "A light tan or sand color. Unless you're from across the pond, where their khaki is what we refer to as 'OD green'."

And I have said as much many, many times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaki

Across the pond the light tan or sand colour is also known as khaki despite the woolen khaki uniforms being much darker, for example, these khaki drill shorts:

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30100818

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaki_drill