ERDL invisible uniform

Also introduced into ARVN service around 1965, a variation of the US m1948 ERDL pattern seen here was exclusively printed on heavy cotton sateen fabric and probably originated in the United States. Tested by the US government in the early 1960s, the design was never adopted and surplus quantities of the fabric were later donated to the South Vietnamese government. The blend of colors, medium brown and olive green organic shapes with black “branches” on a yellowish-green base, had a tendency to blend together at a distance, lending to this pattern the collector’s nickname “invisible ERDL.” A majority of these uniforms were worn by the Vietnamese Rangers or Biệt Ðộng Quân