Uniform - US Perspective?
I wonder what the US take is on uniform or, to be more precise, wearing Army surplus or wearing Army style fashion items partuclarly by men.
In UK you can buy any variety of military style camouflage trousers, hats, handbags etc, for desert, urban, temperate or whatever. You can also buy US, German, Dutch, British surplus and wear it in any scruffy, or stylish, non-military way. A general clue is that the trousers, shirt, jacket and boots do not match. You also see people wearing USAF style or USAF bomber jackets. The fashion for wearing NBC clothing seems to have declined.
I would argue that prevalence of surplus or military style clothing worn by people today distracts from the soldier, sailor or airman when they appear in uniform in public today.
What is the situation in the US? Is there an after market for Army surplus? Is there a fashion for Army style?