Strange threadfellows: How the U.S. military shaped what we all wear

From nuclear fission to GPS to the internet, it’s common knowledge that many of the most resource intensive technologies of the last century got their start as military R&D projects in government-funded labs. But as Avery Trufelman explains in her fashion history podcast, Articles of Interest, the influence of the US military is, in many ways, even more intimate than that, shaping much of the clothing we all wear everyday. 

On today’s show, a tale of Army surplus economics. How military designs trickled down from the soldiers on the front lines to the hippies on the w...