The story of Khakis in INDIA

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Khakis was worn for the first time by the Frontier service from British Indian Recruits at Peshawar, Punjab. The service , the brain child of Henry Lawrence, Resident at Lahore was known by the name 'Corps of Guides. The borders troops were initially ressed in their native constume, consisting of a smock and white pyjama trousers made of home-spun cotton and a cotton turban, along with a leather jacket for cold weather. In 1848 Lumsden and Hodson introuced drab (khaki) uniform. Subsequently as the suplies were unavailable it was improvised by dying the materially locally. Some say the khaki was used by Afghan tribals to camouflage themselves. Cloth was dyed in mulberry juice that gave yellowish drab shade and subsequently all regiments both British and Indian use it as Uniform. Khaki colore unforms was first use by the British troos in the Abyssinian Campaign. Subsequently the British army adopted it for colonial campaign. Because of wearing this unform the British army was known by the name KHAKIS during second Boer War. The Khaki was adoted as unform by the U.S during Sanish-American War (1902). The British Army and the U.S exeditionary forces used khakis with slight variation of brown-Green color during World War.I. It was used to protect soldiers against the dangers of Industrialized battle field.