Camouflage at the Imperial War Museum

On at the Imperial War Museum, London from 23 Mar 2007 to 18 Nov 2007, Camouflage examines the impact of camouflage on modern warfare and its adoption into popular culture:

"Find out how and why a revolution in camouflage occurred during the First World War; how teams of artists and designers were employed to conceal and distort everything from soldiers to battleships and how camouflage concepts and designs have influenced contemporary art and fashion from street-style to couture."

This has sent me off Googling to find the snazziest camouflage items I could find. So far I've found loads of Camouflage stuff on Etsy.com, camouflage duvet covers (sand, blue or pink), camouflage undies, a toilet seat, baby clothes, some bitchin' shoes and knee boots and this rather tasteful party frock. Classy.

See also:
Wikipedia: Camouflage
TATE etc: Art, Culture and Camouflage
Color Crush: Color Study - History of Camouflage

Comments

[John Robertson t/a Veganline.com for vegan shoes]

I got some boots made that look like that. I thought "there are posters all over London Underground and nobody selling the things", so I got some done in the UK for my vegan shoe shop at http://www.Veganline.com.

My next stop was Imperial War Museum public relations office (which had two staff) and their gift shop. Neither would help - the gift shop manager said that she already had some Chinese camouflage wellingtons and that was enough. I tried to photograph some shoes next to the poster but the guards peered at me and warned that I was not allowed to take pictures with a tripod. "Unscripulous people might make postcards", I was told, and various museum officials spied from behind the Bedlam pillers in case I tried to ignore their rules.

Vegan customers have been more down to earth about camouflage boots and they have now spawned a little family of camouflage shoes and 14 eyelet camouflage theigh boots, all in stock in most sizes at http://veganline.com . The tall ones are sometimes in stock at http://www.vegancross.com which is a punk rock vegan cupcake shop in London's Caledonian Road that also sells a few shoes.

By the way, my camouflage boots are made in the UK and their manufacture contributes taxes to support public services as well as jobs in Northamptonshire. A pity they have to pay for the Imperial War Museum though.