This page describes uniform in the sense of clothing. For other meanings, see uniform (disambiguation).
A uniform is a set of standard clothing worn by members of an organisation whilst participating in that organisation's activity.
People performing religious activities have often worn standard costumes since the dawn of recorded history. Other early examples of uniforms include the clothing of the armies of the Roman Empire and other civilizations.
Prison uniforms often consist of a distinctive orange or yellow jumpsuit or a white and horizontal black zebra striped uniform to make escape more difficult.
A uniform is a set of standard clothing worn by members of an organisation whilst participating in that organisation's activity.
Modern uniforms are worn by armed forces and paramilitary organisations such as police, emergency services, security guards, in some workplaces and schools and by inmates in prisons.
The use of uniforms by these organisations is often an effort in branding and developing a standard corporate image.
The M42 fatigues were made in the same color as the earlier style, a light shade of OD (actually a type of sage or light pea green depending on color variations in dye lots).
However, uniforms of both colors continued to be manufactured through the end of the war, with the lighter "sage" shade OD seeming to remain predominate, probably due to the huge stocks of the earlier fabric already manufactured.
This uniform was used as a jungle uniform in the Pacific and as the summer combat uniform.
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