Nobody can tell me I'm a fashion victim: I wear shirts and jumpers I have been wearing for the last twenty years or so. I love old clothes, I find them more comfortable, for one, I also think if I wore them for so long, it's because I like the look of them and if it ain't broke, why fix it. Although, and that's the issue, they do break. And they get unwearable. So I need to change them from time to time. Recently, I have been pondering about a way to avoid this: why not buy some of my clothes from the army surplus? Or maybe one of the companies that sell military quality clothes. I am not a militarist, by any stretch of the imagination. But I love wearing green (something I share with Wolfie): olive green and forest green, particularly. And Wolfie is quite fond of green cammo clothes, for whatever reason. I think he likes using them in our War Games. I don't like cammo clothes and would not wear them, but I would wear "military green" clothes. But more to the point: army clothes are solid and durable. And it seems that even my sedentary life is hard on what I wear. Incidentally, my brother PJ reminded me in a recent conversation of a "colonel shirt" we had as a kid. It was a light, yellowish shirt with stripes, like somehting an officer would wear during a desert campaign. I wore it first. When I outgrew it, he wore it. It became a staple of many of our make belief games. Anyway, I have been thinking about it recently. Anyone here buys from army surplus?
Blogue d'un québécois expatrié en Angleterre. Comme toute forme d'autobiographie est constituée d'une large part de fiction, j'ai décidé de nommer le blogue Vraie Fiction.
Are Army Surplus stores common in England? They aren't here in Canada anymore.
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