Goingecho Posted November 21, 2014 Share #1 Posted November 21, 2014 Got it from eBay several months ago, but still a little bit confused.. I do found some features of VN era, such as tags, cargo pocket style, and the inner "survival kit" pocket, but not sure of its camo pattern. Is that a so-called "brown dominant" pattern? Please tell me what you guys think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mhk Posted November 21, 2014 Share #2 Posted November 21, 2014 Yep, brown dominant erdl's...show picture of tag so we see the date Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goingecho Posted November 22, 2014 Author Share #3 Posted November 22, 2014 Some more pics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mercenary25 Posted November 22, 2014 Share #7 Posted November 22, 2014 Yes. VN era brown dominated ERDL. It also has piece of green dominated pattern on cargo pocket. Common for late war production when the mfg use the left overs of green dominated materials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kammo-man Posted November 22, 2014 Share #8 Posted November 22, 2014 It's pretty common to see mix of all patterns on one garment on 68 dated items..... not just late production. Owen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrei Posted November 22, 2014 Share #9 Posted November 22, 2014 I have 1970 dated brown dom ERDL pants and it is all constructed in brown dom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goingecho Posted November 23, 2014 Author Share #10 Posted November 23, 2014 Thanks all of you for the great info, awesome! BTW a little more question about the fabric: Is that any different exists among the VN era "W/R poplin", "rip stop poplin", and the "poplin"? Still confused about that. Are they all the so-called "heavyweight fabric"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercenary25 Posted November 23, 2014 Share #11 Posted November 23, 2014 It's pretty common to see mix of all patterns on one garment on 68 dated items..... not just late production. Owen Thanks Owen. I had few ERDLs, I noticed the mix on 1969+ dated ERDL's and even RDF if I recall correctly. Didn't realize earlier as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B229 Posted November 24, 2014 Share #12 Posted November 24, 2014 BTW a little more question about the fabric: Is that any different exists among the VN era "W/R poplin", "rip stop poplin", and the "poplin"? Still confused about that. Are they all the so-called "heavyweight fabric"? Poplin is just a type of fabric, in this case woven from cotton yarn. All of these uniforms are made from cotton poplin. It's definitely not heavyweight and that was the point, and there is no heavier weight version of the Tropical Combat Uniforms. W/R stands for wind resistant, which they all were due to the tightly woven nature of the poplin fabric. Late in 1967 stronger yarns were added to the weave in a regular cross-hatch pattern: rip-stop. It is still, however, cotton poplin. The confusion in all this comes from the fact that the contractors weren't consistent with the labeling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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