Club Obi Wan

Hey all,

My name is IndyFrench and I'm addicted to khaki...

Seriously, I just did my laundry and had to do TWO loads of khaki/safari clothing... I had no idea I had this much khaki clothing!

I have 11 Indy-style shirts and 12 pairs of khaki pants, various shades....

But what bothers me the most is... I want MORE.

Anyone else afflicted with this addiction?

IF

The thing about khaki is, it just looks good. You can wear it for almost any occasion from casual to dressy (if you add a sport jacket) and not look out of place. Khaki also weathers the years well. It seems like it's always in style.

Jaydoc

Oh yeah, I too have a khaki affliction, for about 30 years. However, my collection doesn't quite match French's. Want more? You bet I do. It may be genetic. My father wore khaki work clothes most of his life, and my son has a similar attachment to khaki.

If it's not getting in the way of your work or your relationships at home, you're fine. If you have to hock your DVD or pawn your valuables for a quick khaki fix, you need a 12 steps.

I, on the other hand... don't have enough khaki. I love laying out my clean clothes and seeing all the diffrent shades... light bown, stone, khaki, dark khaki, bone... it's all good.

I guess I call it "The Raider Uniform" for that reason.

....but for other reasons besides liking khaki, I am an avid coffee drinker (no snide comments from you, Indiana Jess (grins)) and have found that khaki hides coffee spills quite nicely, but then the British 'invented' the khaki color in India by washing and dyeing their military issues with coffee, and the color is what came about from that practice. Ok, I'm sloppy, so sue me! (grins) Regards. Michaelson

Yeah, I'm getting there too. Since our "dress code" at work last spring, almost all I wear daily now is Khaki. LLBean, Cabela's, Noel Howard, etc etc. I wear Khaki shirts with chinos, blue jeans, tan jeans, and black jeans. Shirts with epaulets, or without. Shirts with pocket flaps, or no pocket flaps. Heck, Khaki goes with anything and for any event. It's at the point where I go in to work daily with some Khaki shirt and Chinos and my USWings Jacket and everybody shouts out "Hey Indy!"
Am I addicted? Yes.
Ain't this a great hobby?

I'm also sloppy, but not cause I'm a slop but I eat and drink on the move. "Active" is what I call slow-pokes.

Most of my shirts were red cause of all the pasta with the Red sause, and the paints were always black cause of the coffee spills till I realized Khaki not only looked better on me for that swashbuckler look, but hides the coffee stains.

After reading your post, Michealson, I now know why all my new khaki clothes make me crave a black hazelnut with no sugar.

...You're talking my language now! Regards. Michaelson

Michaelson wrote: I am an avid coffee drinker (no snide comments from you, Indiana Jess (grins))

You mean there's other kinds of comments?! Besides the life giving properties of coffee makes it far too sacred to make light of.

I too like my khaki's (I refer to my TOD version as Tackies), but I still can't seem to shake a very funny article by Dave Barry that keeps running through my mind when I wear them. He wrote that Dockers are for men with big backsides. To this day, I avoid Dockers like the plague - even if they do fit!

Indiana Jess wrote:

Michaelson wrote:...but I still can't seem to shake a very funny article by Dave Barry that keeps running through my mind when I wear them. He wrote that Dockers are for men with big backsides. To this day, I avoid Dockers like the plague - even if they do fit!

Oh great! Now it will be running through my mind as well having recently purchased several pairs. Now where did I put those receipts for my refunds.

...and what did this Dave Berry mean by that anyway. sheesh.

....my kids were going to buy me a pair of Dockers for Christmas, and asked if I wanted the 'Wide Load' version. I said, 'don't you mean 'relaxed fit'? Reply...'same difference.' Sheesh! The Discovery Channel was right. You eat your children while they're young. Regards. Michaelson

Michaelson wrote:....You eat your children while they're young. Regards. Michaelson

Now that REALLY sounds controversial to me! ...oh well.

Indiana Jess wrote: but I still can't seem to shake a very funny article by Dave Barry that keeps running through my mind when I wear them. He wrote that Dockers are for men with big backsides. To this day, I avoid Dockers like the plague - even if they do fit!

Haha good old Dave Berry! That guy is the best...

Henri

IF yeah, the addiction came from my father, who was in the Navy for
20+ years. I loved his Chief uniform when he worked on the base as
opposed to his early sailor whites and blues. He wore Khaki clothes around the house when puttering around in the garden. He kind of
reminds me of Mr. Miyagi from the Karate Kid cause he's a little guy 5' 4"
but garners much respect at his job as a Civil Service Rep working at a Naval Hospital. I often wore Khaki pants while I was working at an Italian
Cafe for six years. They took the brunt of those coffee spill stains. Especially the espresso stains that would be on my pants that went
through my aprons. The safari shirts just looked nice to me so most of the apparel I wore back then was Military influenced. Epaulets included!
Khakis have such a wide color spectrum too and match nonpareil with
just about anything.

Michaelson wrote:....but for other reasons besides liking khaki, I am an avid coffee drinker (no snide comments from you, Indiana Jess (grins)) and have found that khaki hides coffee spills quite nicely, but then the British 'invented' the khaki color in India by washing and dyeing their military issues with coffee, and the color is what came about from that practice. Ok, I'm sloppy, so sue me! (grins) Regards. Michaelson

Michaelson, as a fellow coffee drinker I thought of this post of yours this past Friday morning while at work. You see, I usually don't spill my coffee. In fact, I can think of maybe two other times in the past two years that I even dripped my coffee.

Sooo, when I spilled a little bit on my lap at work this past Friday my mind immediately thought of this post of yours b/c of the khaki and the coffee. It's true that it hides the stains for the day. And BTW, thanks for the explanation on why khaki hides the coffee spills!

I.J.

Khaki is addictive. I tend to be leaning toward a lot of earth tones of late.
Lots of Khaki Safari Shirts with epaulets. What is a guy to do? I am trying to gauge just the right T-shirt, if I wear one at all, that can match just perfectly. Khaki is just such a all encompassing uniform. I use it like black it seems. My next purchase would have to be a tweed suit like Indy wore in the class room scene in ROTLA. Does anyone know about that suit? Where to purchase, close facsimile? Oh, and did Indy wear the Aldens dress shoes, I picture him as a wing-tip man. Any comments?