Welcome to Combat Threads! I’m Charles McFarlane, a Master’s Student in Costume Studies at NYU. Combat Threads is a peek into my notebook as I research military uniforms and non-elite fashion in the 20th and 21st Centuries. This will be a record of research as I go, with some fully fleshed-out thoughts and lots of threads that I am just beginning to pull on. Far from being arcane, my aim is to speak to the broadest possible audience. Combat Threads will be diving into how military garments found their way into civilian wardrobes to how militaries develop their own internal visual fashion language.