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Mao said something to the effect that one should not wear a tuxedo to an insurgancy but dress like a local. "Be a fish in the ocean." he said, sorta.
Around here if you wear a business suit or Gucci-flage your sure to be noticed, ie. outsider, possible Govt Type.
Even Wal-mart cammo is suspect, it denotes that there is a gun in the rig, and a new set of Carharts is rare enough to raise eybrows!
These days most folks here wear thier Carharts with-out washing them because washing makes em wear-out faster. Once they are worn down they are burned and replaced with cheap imports like Walls or some store brand. New Carharts cost an arm and a leg, most folk here, with the exception of boots, dress for a day's work for well under a 'C' note.
The same goes for vechicle types, local men drive bottom dollar HD PU trucks or old mini trucks, Never with a canopy. Wives may well drive the same PU or a small old SUV, Never a new rig. People who have canopys on thier PU's are invaribably from the city, and from the Western/liberal part of the state, where theft is a problem. Local vechicles have snow tires, city rigs have street tires.
Generaly I wear faded denim, flanel and brown duck canvas, very occasionaly will you find me in camo, I swim with the fishes.
During hunting season I dress completly different, I wear a white hat and shirt, my best blue jeans and my 'dress' wrist watch. If I could do it without being called a pansy, I would wear white gloves! Why? Well one of the first lessons a game warden learns when hunting poachers is to look for tell tail signs of blood on a vechicle and on the clothes of said poachers. When they errect thier roadblocks they look for 'hunters' and blood stains. A person dressed in white, sans blood stains, is obviously not a hunter nor a poacher and I am waved through every road block. There is a lesson to be learned here ,,,somewhere.
'It's good to swim with the fishes, as long as the sharks are not feeding, be ready to change your stripes when necessary.
Around here if you wear a business suit or Gucci-flage your sure to be noticed, ie. outsider, possible Govt Type.
Even Wal-mart cammo is suspect, it denotes that there is a gun in the rig, and a new set of Carharts is rare enough to raise eybrows!
These days most folks here wear thier Carharts with-out washing them because washing makes em wear-out faster. Once they are worn down they are burned and replaced with cheap imports like Walls or some store brand. New Carharts cost an arm and a leg, most folk here, with the exception of boots, dress for a day's work for well under a 'C' note.
The same goes for vechicle types, local men drive bottom dollar HD PU trucks or old mini trucks, Never with a canopy. Wives may well drive the same PU or a small old SUV, Never a new rig. People who have canopys on thier PU's are invaribably from the city, and from the Western/liberal part of the state, where theft is a problem. Local vechicles have snow tires, city rigs have street tires.
Generaly I wear faded denim, flanel and brown duck canvas, very occasionaly will you find me in camo, I swim with the fishes.
During hunting season I dress completly different, I wear a white hat and shirt, my best blue jeans and my 'dress' wrist watch. If I could do it without being called a pansy, I would wear white gloves! Why? Well one of the first lessons a game warden learns when hunting poachers is to look for tell tail signs of blood on a vechicle and on the clothes of said poachers. When they errect thier roadblocks they look for 'hunters' and blood stains. A person dressed in white, sans blood stains, is obviously not a hunter nor a poacher and I am waved through every road block. There is a lesson to be learned here ,,,somewhere.
'It's good to swim with the fishes, as long as the sharks are not feeding, be ready to change your stripes when necessary.
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