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Adopting militaristic wear into everyday life until it becomes quite routine is a thing that has been happening for decades. As an example, "khakis", the much-
by quadrifoliate 4y ago
Adopting militaristic wear into everyday life until it becomes quite routine is a thing that has been happening for decades.
As an example, "khakis", the much-reviled uniform of the corporate American worker, started out as uniforms for the British Army to stop standing out so much against the background in the North-West Frontier of (then) India [1].
("Khak" means "soil" or "ground" in Urdu, the "-i" indicating an adjective, i.e. "ground-like". Properly speaking, only the beige or dust-colored chinos should be called khakis.)
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaki