LIGHT GREY FOR SOLDIERS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 239, 5 January 1917, Page 3 (Supplement)

LIGHT GREY FOR SOLDIERS.

UNIFORMS WHICH BECOMR INVISIBLE. What colour can be seen the farthest? What is the most conspicuous ctlour? Experiments to answer th«i questions have been made to determine the colour best suited for a soldier's uniform. The experiments proved that few people realise the difference colours can make or their real relation to cue another. The ideal soldier's costume is on* that soon fades into the background, and that does not show at all from a di-tam e, rxiking it invisible to the eiiemv. iii order' to prove the relativeconspicuousness of colours, twelve soldiers were dressed in coloured uniforms and ordered to march off, while a group of officers and colour experts remained behind to take notes on the uniforms. Two of the twelve soldiers were clad in hght grew two in dark grey, two 'n green, two in dark blue, two in scarlet and two in tan, as these are the colours most fitted for uniforms. The first to disappear were the light grew The next two were the tan. fh • nevt, surprising as it may seem to those win believe they know colour', were the scarlet. Then followd tin; dark grev, while the dark blue and pieen reriained visible long after tto other colours had disappeared. Experiments were also made at Uring at targets of various colours, with the spmn results. Red and blue targe's v.cie also experimented with and it wm proved tli.it blue could be more easily s .-n at a distance, and hit. than could red.