But now, in early December, there's a transformation occurring, as men and women in various shades of camouflage paper the space with Christmas spirit in record time.
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Camouflage made fresh with non-battle-fatigue colors continues to work its way up from the streets for men and women.
Signing an Under Armour agreement within the past year, Hartley is able to rep the brand both on the field and while hunting in the field, with special UA camouflage gear.
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At other times though we were being watched from a car that had been daubed with paint, rudimentary camouflage, like many vehicles going to the front lines were during the recent fighting.
Military camouflage really started in the middle of the 19th Century with the introduction of khaki, he says, but what we think of camouflage now evolved in World War I to counter the new menaces of aircraft and submarines.
Ryan was dressed in combat-style camouflage clothing and roamed the area armed with a semi-automatic rifle and pistol.
Sometime of them wore garish military regalia festooned with patches, some wore camouflage, some wore Armani, some wore tribal garb, some wore peasant garb, some wore nothing above the waist preferring to appear shirtless in photographs.
He took up fierce criticism of the EU and the single currency in the hope that his anti-EU-polemic will camouflage his lack of ideas for how to deal with the economic downturn.
Mr Pringle was described as about 5ft 9in, slim, with short dark hair and wearing a green camouflage-type jacket over fishing waders.
After the plane has landed, with a push of a button the strip reverts to camouflage mode.
Or he could be driving a wired-up car with a woman and a child on board just for camouflage.
When it comes to business taxes, where camouflage serves little purpose, the tendency is as marked as it is with personal taxes.
In marble halls normally bustling with suit-and-tie legislators and lobbyists, witnesses wearing camouflage, jeans and ball caps now file into committee rooms for sessions.
The BBC's Lucy Williamson in Seoul says it appears the North is trying to build a sense of crisis domestically, with a large rally staged in Pyongyang on Friday and reports of camouflage netting on public transport.
Smelling vaguely of a musty garage, the room's pegboard walls are draped with flannel shirts and leather tool belts, cowboy hats and lariats, camouflage hunting gear and Nascar memorabilia.
By comparing regular radar pings with infrared digital optics, its images show such details as whether a truck has camouflage paint.
"I'd only been sitting in my BMW for 30 seconds with the engine running, so when the door was opened by a man in camouflage, I knew what was happening and stayed fairly cool, " he said.
First Sergeant DOBOS: The EFP's, with the Hezbollah, have really perfected, that's about what they look like when they camouflage them, because they use Styrofoam and then they'll paint 'em and everything else.
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