For most of modern American history, military uniforms were designed to disappear. Camouflage patterns were designed to break up a human silhouette in various environments. Load-bearing vests, cargo pockets, reinforced boots and standardized cuts were functional necessities — solutions to problems that involved weight, heat, concealment and survival.Over the last two decades, however, those solutions have been pulled into civilian fashion, stripped of context and resold as style.
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How fashion borrowed military aesthetics and lost the context
