My winter outerwear (parkas, jacket and wind shells) is mostly black and the main rational behind this is that it contrasts better than any other colors in a snow storm.

I'm also a proponent of the "store what you eat and eat what you store" principle of food storage and think it should apply to clothing (wear what you store and store what you wear!?) and so I enjoy wearing black.

In this connection, I'm afraid Military Chic is going out of fashion. Paradoxically military chic is often in vogue at times of anti-war feeling as after the Iraq war of 2003.

Frankie