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Prince William leaves royal fans swooning over camouflage army uniform wardrobe change: ‘Hello hotness!’

Prince William leaves royal fans swooning over camouflage army uniform wardrobe change: ‘Hello hotness!’

The Prince of Wales ditched his typical suit for a camouflage army uniform as he visited an army barracks on Thursday – and royal fans were very impressed.  William, 43, visited troops from the Mercian Regiment at their barracks in Bulford, Wiltshire, in his role as their Colonel-in-Chief, also donning the regimental beret.  Afterwards, William unexpectedly found himself becoming a viral sensation, with photos of himself in army uniform racking up thousands of likes on social media.  “Dayum!!!!! You’re welcome everyone,” one person commented, sharing a video of the Prince’s visit on X. Another gushed: “See that jaw?” and a third noted: “Prince William is so tall!” See below for all the best photos from the visit… © Getty Images The prince met soldiers from the 1st Battalion who returned last December from a six-month deployment to Estonia as part of the UK’s contribution to Nato forces.  In the officer’s mess at Picton Barracks, the future king chatted to officers and their families and shared a joke with many of them. © Andrew Parsons / …

How American Camouflage Conquered the World

How American Camouflage Conquered the World

The design students didn’t start out in the field or on a hunting range. “You start in your Adobe suite, right?” Thompson says. “ Go right in digitally, create it, print it, make uniforms out of it. Tweak, tweak, tweak, tweak, tweak.” It was a lot of guesswork. There wasn’t really a reliable measurement for testing the effectiveness of camo. “ The human eye and the user and the guy in the field know what’s good or bad, but to make that be a test that you could replicate across different forces would be very, very hard,” Thompson says. And yet, Crye Precision was pretty sure it had found something special. In the early 2000s, they presented their concept for multi-environment camo to the United States military. Crye made it clear that they intended to patent this pattern, an early design of which was called Scorpion. In 2004 they did, and christened it MultiCam. Around that same time, when the military had an open call for submissions for a new Army camo, Crye proposed MultiCam. It was …

Can Gun Culture Help Streetwear Find Its Edge Again?

Can Gun Culture Help Streetwear Find Its Edge Again?

Qilo produces its signature sherpa fleeces in deep cut IYKYK camo patterns like “Blueberry Chocolate Chip” and Leopard (used by Saudi border guards and joggers in 1970s Zaire, respectively), 650-fill goose down puffers in MultiCam, and pouches in Tiger Stripe that include a velcro panel to attach to a plate carrier. Nearly everything Qilo makes has some kind of military history or modern tactical origin point. And while none of the pieces are straight-down-the-line tactical (Stein says he “doesn’t really see” Qilo putting Velcro patches on sleeves, a hallmark of modern tactical clothing), the way Qilo markets itself sometimes blurs the line. The brand’s posts on Instagram often look like Call of Duty gameplay stills, with models decked out in full battle rattle, armed with suppressed rifles, and their faces sometimes blurred out. The posts that don’t look ripped from the battlefield, meanwhile, feel a lot like any other streetwear brand’s look book images—casual hangout photos with strobe-light flash and an abundance of pretty women—just with the addition of visible firearms. Brandon Wood, a 32-year-old …