(The pants’ yellowish color, a result of mulberry juice dye, was dubbed khaki, a riff on the Hindustan word for dust.) It didn’t take long for them to become standard-issue for British troops ...

These pants were slimmer than other uniforms ... and come in a spectrum of colors—navy, olive, and even burgundy. ‘Khakis,’ on the other hand, evoke a thicker, rugged twill fabric with ...

Because the tone is so understated, the khaki-like color is best applied in trousers and jackets—like the cargo pants in Burberry’s most recent collection, for example. Hypnotic, Wicked-esque ...