“Throwing it Back” with US Woodland M81 Camo

In a market where everyone is bogged down by the next “new thing”. We are taking a different approach. Introducing US Woodland M81 Camo, a throwback to a timeless classic. US Woodland Camo was the official camo used on the Battle Dress Uniforms (BDU) of the United States Armed Forces from the early 1980s to the mid-2000s.

The woodland pattern is a four-color, high contrast disruptive pattern with irregular markings in sand, brown, green and black. It is known unofficially as “M81” though this term was not officially used by the U.S. military. The woodland pattern is almost identical to the ERDL camouflage pattern developed by the United States Army at its Engineer Research & Development Laboratories (ERDL) in 1948. ERDL camouflage was issued to elite reconnaissance and special operations units in the Vietnam War. In an effort to make the ERDL pattern more effective, it was enlarged and the splotches were re-drawn to make them more irregular. This new version became what we now know as US Woodland Camo.