Colour Of Clothes

[TheViking]

Hi...

When out there what color do your clothes have? Colors that blend in with environment (not necessarily camo) or bright (yellow, red, light green, cyan, blue)???

It's easier to be seen in a bright color jacket, but even with such one, it's difficult to see a man in a fog. (assuming that he's hurt and needs help for example)

Personally i'm nostalgic and go for the green, black, brown colors, simply because it gives more privacy if strangers should come across. :wink: :biggthump

[Squidders]

To be fair... my "out there" consists mostly of climbing and being a patio cavemen.

I typically wear natural hues though.

[PC2K]

at the moment my bushcraft clothing are either OD, brown or tan BDU trouwsers and t-shirts also OD, Brown or tan. Other things are usually green ( therma rest, bivy, poncho, backpack, etc )

[Simon]

ColoUrs .. it's Colours!! . you may be a Wiking but you are EuWopean at least .. please don't fall in to the habit of using spelling of the English language in such a perverse manner! :wink:

[Simon]

oh .. and it's jeans and greens for me ...... not into the camo stuff ... perhaps if i was trying to hide from someone .. I think camo is supposed to be stuff you wear not to be seen rather than to be seen wearing :wink:

of course for emergencies i have my Predator gizmo that surrounds me in a force field that reflects my environment ):

[Gary]

:rolmao: I guess 'word' and spell check are to blame there - I fall in the same catagory and I'm supposed to speak English so The viking shouldnt feel so bad - after all we cant all be overly edumacacated now can we!

As for clothing - I like plain colours in the field, I try to avoid camoflage (in all things) just because I'm ex-army and dont want to be mistaken for some wanna be soldier which to a real soldier is lower than being a laywer.

Hardest thing I find is finding a mix of clothing suitable for wearing both in the field and while travelling to and thro - here I think the checked Swanni stuff works well as does black, sometimes this is useful being neither 'tree huggy' (sorry Geoff just a phrase!) nor commercial 'I've got a £200 goretex and it keeps me dry from the car to the front door' type of thing!

[Stuart]

I tend to wear Khaki clothing almost everywhere its a natural color without being green.

ifyou want to be seen for emergencys carry a large brightly coloured silk panal

[TheViking]

ColoUrs .. it's Colours!! . you may be a Wiking but you are EuWopean at least .. please don't fall in to the habit of using spelling the of English language in such a perverse manner! :wink:

I'll choose to perceive it as being ironically... :wink: Pla pla... You get the meaning. :wink: Well i'm sittin' here with my 2 pound dictionaries and you can say both! :wink: :-) BTW: "Colour" is american! :biggthump

Cheers :uu:

[Adi007]

ColoUrs .. it's Colours!! . you may be a Wiking but you are EuWopean at least .. please don't fall in to the habit of using spelling of the English language in such a perverse manner! :wink:

The origin of the different spelling is interesting. America chose to differentiate itself from Britain from its beginnings and spelling was included in that. You can read more in H.L. Mencken's essay from The American Language.

Noah Webster, whose Blue Back Speller (1788) sold 82 million copies within a century of its publication, was a great pioneer of US English as opposed to British English. He said that establishing a national language was as important as winning the American Revolution itself. The spelling of such terms at theater instead of theatre and color instead of colour is Webster's legacy.

[ScottC]

I tend to wear Khaki clothing almost everywhere its a natural color without being green.

Same with me. I'd prefer the desert to the jungle any day. ):

[Kath]

Voted 'other' because while most of the time I wear natural colors (beige, green and anything in between) there are times it's more inconspicuous to wear bright colors. An example of this being if I'm chopping wood the general public will be more comfortable seeing an individual - especially a woman - in overalls or a a day glo vest than say drab or dpm.

On the hills I decide based on what I'm up to! Whether I might get lost, in which case I'll wear bright colors so I can be seen. Or if I'm :mischief: and want to get lost (not that I ever bivvy where I shouldn't! ) then it's olive and dpm and scrim scarves for completeness. ;-) Always carry a day glo vest though! :wink:

[Simon]

The origin of the different spelling is interesting. America chose to differentiate itself from Britain from its beginnings and spelling was included in that. You can read more in H.L. Mencken's essay from The American Language.

Uhhh yeah .. so we cunningly moved a few letters around so now it's our language .. uhhh :roll: ): :wink:

do you suppose it's nature being caught up by consciousness and claiming a false authorship? :wink:

[PeterC]

it might just be me, but I think wearing bright colours in the country side is the equivalent of constantly shouting at the top of your voice.

[TheViking]

it might just be me, but I think wearing bright colours in the country side is the equivalent of constantly shouting at the top of your voice.

Yes!
As with materials of clothes: I don't wear GTX either or Ventile or any other 'high tech' fabric. It's too expensive for my wallet. The only thing I really need is a normal rain coat and a poncho at night. :wink: Never bringing raintrousers either. Guess i'm a bit nostalgic.... :biggthump

[Gary]

You and I both TheViking - sometimes the simplest pleasures are the greatest ones! :biggthump I our over complicated lives it is easy to over complicate that which should be simple and free!

[Wayne]

I chose other most of my decent kit is left over from climbing. otherwise its whatever is on top of my clean clothes in the draw. Not that fussed about having special clothes for this or that. Although i can often be seen in black.

[Paganwolf]

Im like Popeye im only happy when im in Olive :rolmao: :shock: I live in DPM or olive drab and Danner or lowa Boots my wardrobe looks like a Rain forest ):

[Simon]

I don't know why, but at my ripe old age of 40 ... there is something deeply worrying about a nostalgic 15 year old :roll: :wink:

[dave750gixer]

I tend towards blending in but not cammo as I usually wear a lot of the same stuff in town. However I carry a day glow vest with me (as EDC!) with my first aid kit. Too many years of riding a motorbike 365 days I suppose. Makes me paranoid about the need to be seen in emergencies.

[RovingArcher]

I'm a naturalist, what can I say. :wink:

[Gary]

Naturalist or naturist?

[ditchfield]

I tend to wear Olive green although my overnight rucksack is a bright yellow Lowe Alpine Contour mountain 45 which I got when I first started doing overnight hikes a while ago and I can't afford another. I love the pack, just not the colour. It's subdued by mud now though :-D.

[TheViking]

You and I both TheViking - sometimes the simplest pleasures are the greatest ones! :biggthump I our over complicated lives it is easy to over complicate that which should be simple and free!

Yes. IMO it's very rare that I even need my M65, cause i'm very active when out there. This year in Sweden I brought my M65 but never used it... :shock: Was only wearing a T-shirt or a fleece all the time! :wink:

That's why GTX is superfluous IMO. My boots haven't got GTX either! The thing that they're wet, doesn't really bother me.

[Mikey P]

I use a mixture depending on how good the kit is. I have a really good lightweight Marmot breathable rain jacket in bright blue but the matching pants are black as that's all they had in the shop. I have buffalo/snugpak/swedish smock which are all olive green, and most of my outdoor pants are khaki zip-offs. T-shirts grey/black, etc.

My outdoor sports clothing tends to be bright colours - especially for biking - for obvious reasons.

My work clothing for field stuff is all camo so I don't particularly want to wear it in my leisure time too.

[Realgar]

I don't go for cammo stuff but if I'm out and about ( which invariably means I've got a rod with me ) I have some nice khaki hemp jeans with plenty of pockets, this tends to go with a green T shirt and a mottled light tanned waistcoat or a grey fishing waistcoat. If it's likely to be wet then I don a full length leather coat.

Oh, and I'm never without the hat.
Realgar

[RovingArcher]

Naturalist or naturist?

): quite right, but actually neither gets it right. Because neither takes into account the CREATOR. Lets just say, I wear OD, have some camo and skinny dip as often as I can.

[ChrisKavanaugh]

Great Britain and America, "Two nations separated by a common language." I was summarily expelled from a university geography class for spelling habits learned in my C of E private school days and filling in Saigon vs Ho Chi Minh City by this effete armchair Che' Guevara wannabe. Subdued colours are truly useless with wildlife unless treated to neutralise the colour enhancers in soaps that increase UV and other light spectrums. Animals rely on more than mere sight to spot our lumbering approaches anyway. With people, half out there don't even see two feet in front of them .Khaki or even that grey-green workclothes hue is suprisingly effective for fading into the background. Somebody with truly quiet woodsways could dress like a Morris dancer unseen while Joe Cool gets spotted in a ghilly suit. My wardrobe is just a miscellany of whatever. I may have a Flektar poncho, but the bright red cowboy bandanna dispells images of paranoid survivalists. What I want, is to eventually have a classic 3 piece Harris or Donegal tweed shooting suit with a Deerstalker cap and Victorian cloak and Brolly to bash any comouflaged commando or unruly grizz with. ack:

[alick]

A good old mix ! Dark blue, dark green and black are OK for the woods and street alike. Technical mountaineering kit doesn't usualy come in green so it's as bright a yellow and black as you can get ! I'm looking for a bettter coloured jacket for the woods.

Recent hits have been Tony's BCUK T shirts in black and Khaki, and a three pack of T shirts for 8 quid from Decathlon in different natural colours.

Tents and the like are always chosen to blend it.

[Andy]

I wear plain colours that tend to blend in. They are also cheep clothes. For biking though I have bright stuff so that I can be seen

[ScottC]

I have simple, non expensive outdoor clothes that are still very tough and hardwearing. I usually go for blacks, creams/khaki, dark blue and olive green when I'm out doing bushcrafty things.