What colour is khaki?

[Dennis Gelean (RIP)]

Khaki is from the urdal dialect in India
Pronouned kackee or as in the US Karkey, Translation is dirt colour
referred to br some as S### colour. Dusty is being nice.
Most Cdn. and brits ww1 uniforms were made in India. Some in ww2.
dennis gelean

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

The faded to almost yellow that Keith talks about is so true and can sometimes yield a nice original colour if you scrape the surface off. It's great to find as it tells you with certainty that you are looking at an original, un-mucked with surface.