Bivouac Birthday

From field jackets to $150 jeans

by John Hilton

posted 10/22/2011

"In the closet, I had a mattress and TV," says Ed Davidson. "The rest was army surplus." The year was 1971, and even as American campuses boiled over with antiwar protests, students wanted to look like grunts--"It was basically hard to protest if you didn't have the right field jacket," Davidson recalls.

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