The six-colour desert pattern — “chocolate chip” — was a decade-old specialist uniform when the 1990-91 Gulf War turned it into the most photographed camouflage on earth. What it is, where it came from, and why other desert patterns are so often mistaken for it.
Frog skin and duck hunter: what the 1942 US camouflage uniform’s record does and does not show, and how to tell wartime cloth from later copies.
The Waffen-SS pea dot was printed, not drawn: its round grains are the raster of a five-colour fabric press. The first non-reversible SS camouflage, 1944.