Khaki Goes Mufti
February, 1981
Forty years ago, khaki was synonymous with muddy foxholes, C rations and other horrors of war. Sure, the stuff wore like iron, but if you were seen on the street with a khaki bag, it probably meant you were A.W.O.L. Now manufacturers have re-established a khaki beachhead; the cloth's durability and relatively low cost (it's twilled cotton with no petroleum by-products) make it a uniform winner. Aside from bush jackets, shirts, shorts, slacks, etc., khaki has also been put to other non-military u...
