Reenactment Legion Uniformity vs Variety

[AuxArcher]

My own two cents is to take a look at decent photos of 21st and 20th century armies of any nation, or look at artifacts in a collector's collection or in a museum. There are so many variations of color in just, say, web belts, and even the same contractor could and would produce many varient shades for a web belt or canteen cover, etc. Age, field wear, competency of the person performing maintenance all factored in.

As for a bit of my own experience in the US Army, I had an old style Vietnam pistol belt as part of my TA50 in Germany in the 1980s with the blackened metal buckle, while other guys had the newest nylon kind with a plastic belt buckle. We had 1960s flak vests, and the new kevlar stuff side by side. Yet we were uniform.