Well, you have to wear at least 500 sq inches of bright fluorescent orange or pink up top + a hat anyway, so does it really matter what color the rest of your clothes are?
I've worn blue jeans and a plaid lumberjack shirt many times on rifle elk hunts.
I think every photo I’ve seen taken of hunters before the mid 1980’s, they were all wearing plaid Elmer Fudd hats, red plaid jackets or shirts, wool or blue jean trousers, or Army surplus wool or cotton in green, grey, or circa Vietnam camo. If they were really cool they were smoking a pipe.
Suddenly, in recent years all the animals have had a genetic mutation, are smarter, faster, can leap higher, see farther, and decipher camo patterns. Big and medium game animals refuse to get shot by any hunter who commits crimes of fashion by wearing an outfit that cost less than $800. It is imperative that hunters not only wear camo, but all that camo must match and be of the proper brand. Welcome to the fashion race. The genius of the digital marketing age.
More and more I am purchasing green, gray, and brown instead of camo, because I want to be able to wear my clothing year round and would rather not wear camo to my kids soccer game or to family outings. Earth tone colors can also be less expensive as they are available in many stores. There’s huge cost savings in being able to wear your outdoor gear all year instead of one week out of every 52. And being able to wear gear al year helps justify buying the more expensive stuff if that’s what you like.
Yes, I still often wear camo but I don’t worry about whether it‘s all ’matchy matchy’.
I’m in the same place with other gear; I try to stick with gray, brown, and green for packs, bino harness, etc.
If you know what fits, don’t be afraid to buy gently used gear from the classified section of this forum.
Get some good clothing that fits your budget that will last you awhile, and go have fun!
