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[Nanook]

I'm very aware of what the dress uniform of the Marine Corps is but I'm not sure what that has to do with the discussion.

We've sidetracked it a wee bit but the issue of colour coordination and semantics is not without significant relevance to the joys of a highland dandy :rolleyes:

Olive and Brown are close enough of a match for me to wear with black leathers.

Etiquette is also an issue of local custom. What works in Augusta does not always set well in Boston.

Many of the historical Confederate brown "butternut" uniforms of Georgia (to put things into local perspective) we see in the archives were not brown but a gray using dyes that did not stand well. They wore, however, mainly brown shoes so I guess the fading of Confederate gray was planned to match the homegrown butternut dyed uniforms in museum exhibits:rolleyes:

"Butternuts" did apparently also wear black shoes but most were, I've somewhere read, previously carried by Union feet.

Since we're on a side-step. Your sporran straps look quite spectacular (especially in brown tones for day wear). Here it is all about coordination since there is little chance, other than perhaps with black, that one can get a match. I suspect this might have been one of the reasons for chains in civilian garb--- although interestingly one of my day regimental sporrans has a matching chain and not a strap (predating much of the plastic straps). Black straps and a brown sporran? No thank you..