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Post by PJGH on Oct 24, 2015 3:23:34 GMT -6
Post your Ever Ready Khaki Sets! I picked this one up recently: Co. Inc. on the inside. ... also, here's my Service Kit from much later. '50s, I'm guessing:
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Post by wchnu on Oct 24, 2015 21:24:53 GMT -6
I will have to dig mine up. Those are great sets.
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Post by fram773 on Oct 24, 2015 22:04:26 GMT -6
Once khaki, now green? or does khaki mean something else in British?
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Post by spidey9 on Oct 24, 2015 22:54:48 GMT -6
Beutiful Khaki Set! It's really rare to find one with the canvas case that well preserved - they don't usually age well.
--Bob
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Post by PJGH on Oct 25, 2015 2:50:21 GMT -6
Once khaki, now green? or does khaki mean something else in British? Khaki "a dullish green colour" ... seems legit. I will have to dig mine up. Those are great sets. Please do! Pictures, lots of them ... this is different to one shown in Waits, which tends to be light on the British side of things. I think this is a British set.
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Post by Possum on Oct 26, 2015 15:17:03 GMT -6
WOW!! Two beeeeeeeeeeeeeeutiful sets. I am really attracted though to the ER brush in the 50's service set.
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Post by PJGH on Oct 26, 2015 16:22:54 GMT -6
Yeah, that is a really nice brush! Have another pic: I know people say "really nice" all the time, when they just mean "nice" or "pleasant", but this is indeed a really nice brush and I must use it more. When I got the set and opened it up, it all appeared absolutely mint. Untouched. The blades are still in cellophane, the razor was clearly unused (was, I've used it ), the soap was clearly unused and the brush untouched. Untouched and dried out, so much so it was shedding bristle dust. I was quite literally about to chop the knot off and ready it for drilling out when I decided to soak it and give it a damn good lather. Lathered with MWF and again with MWF, it showed real promise. The dustiness had gone, the brittle hairs had gone and what was left was a good and revived brush; a brush which would revive more with use. Yes, I must use it more. In fact, next shave I'm going to use the 1914 from the Khaki Set and I'll put this brush into service for that shave and perhaps a few more after ...
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Post by wchnu on Oct 27, 2015 13:11:16 GMT -6
I think the term khaki set has more to do with military issue??? I could be wrong.
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Post by fram773 on Oct 27, 2015 16:09:07 GMT -6
I think the term khaki set has more to do with military issue??? I could be wrong. I think they use it to mean green instead of light brown like in American English. Example, I imagine a "fanny pack" would be a funny word to Brits because "fanny" does not mean "butt" in British English...
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Post by PJGH on Oct 27, 2015 18:15:17 GMT -6
Yeah, kicking someone's fanny here (UK) is seriously frowned upon!
What are you guys seeing? I'm horrendously colour-blind and know this sort of colour really messes me up. The outside, to me, is drab. Light brown with a green tint. Inside, which I think is the original colour, appears much more green. Over on the right of the picture of the inside, it's turning drab/brown. While I agree that khaki is a brown/green it should not be as green as the inside appears (to me) to be ... that's closer to olive green. I think it is supposed to be that colour as the outside and that one tab appears to be sunbleached.
Go figure ...
Meanwhile, "Khaki" as in "Military" is what is loosely meant.
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Post by mjclark on Oct 27, 2015 22:04:04 GMT -6
I'd say the outside of the set in that picture is khaki which for the purposes of the British Army is officially three parts black to one part yellow (so we can all mix our own) but obviously the term "Khaki Set" is idiomatic.
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Post by fram773 on Oct 27, 2015 23:01:43 GMT -6
Khaki pants-- often simply called "khakis". Military green is called "olive drab" in American English.
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Post by mjclark on Oct 28, 2015 1:43:06 GMT -6
A bit of research reveals that the word Khaki has a Persian origin (like myself) and means "soil coloured", I also never realised that in the Americas it was not a green. How educational... ... so Gentlemen, is that Ever Ready set soil coloured?
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Post by spidey9 on Oct 28, 2015 10:16:17 GMT -6
Khaki was first used in uniforms by the British in India in the mid-nineteenth century, who wanted something that would not show dust/dirt. US dictionaries define khaki as "light yellowish brown."
To my eyes the Ever-Ready set appears to be what I would call olive drab, at least on the inside.
However, I think that in this context "Khaki set" could refer to any razor set manufactured for military use.
--Bob
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Post by PJGH on Oct 28, 2015 17:43:26 GMT -6
Oxford (English) Dictionary: "dull brownish-yellow colour" Cambridge (English) Dictionary: "dark yellowish-green cloth" I guess they'll have to have a boat race, or something that ends with cucumber sandwiches, to decide the victor. If you're going "?" ... it's a Brit thing. Military Sets it is ... khaki or olive drab. Post 'em up, if you have 'em! ... just for fun, here's the British Army 1908 Marching & Battle Order webbing sets:
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