VLVL Army surplus clothing

[pynchonoid]

[...] Army/Navy stores were like the Gap in the
sixties, a
good cheap source of durable clothes.  Where, does one
suppose, bellbottoms, as a fashion, originated?  There
was little about it that could be read as antiwar
commentary.  [...] 

Au contraire, the whole idea of being a dope-smoking,
war-protesting "hippie" took on an ironic edge when
wearing US Army surplus clothing. The feeling grew
even more intense, for me at least, when I found
myself wearing newly-issued US Army uniforms as a
young draftee on the boot camp conveyor belt to
Vietnam in '72.  (In case you don't know my story, I
escaped that fate when it was decided on high in
August of that year not to send any more draftees to
the War, and I chose not to volunteer for that duty.)



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