Tigerstripe Products' "Tactical Tiger". It is clearly marketed to police departments, and judging by the nametape on this, the marketing works.
I just can't decide-- Badass Black, or cammies?
No need to decide: this is both! Of course, you'll show up as a big, dark blob, even at night. You'll look cool, tho'.

Tuff like a Tiger!

I assume that the proprietor of this photo is currently lying in a shallow, sandy grave. Yes, the Tamil Tigers-- they're rough, they're tough! By their stripes you shall know them! This regular, non-overlapping, small-scale very directional pattern is not to be mistaken for the patterns from the Republic of Vietnam properly known as Tigerstripes.

It's bad enough on its own, but whoever sewed the uniform made it worse. The made the stripes follow the direction of the arms and torso, hence emphasising their form rather than disguising their form.

Trying this out

This blog is a bit of an experiment. So far, I haven't been able to google to get to it-- we'll see. Mostly, it seems to be shaping up into an alternative to my Facebook page, also named Bad Camo. I like that I can post links there and have a thumbnail show without me having to step on someone's photo rights. I seem to be doing everything twice. That can't last. Why isn't just _everybody_ on Facebook?

Um... is this really news?

Perhaps this whole camo thing has gone too far. The British Army change their spots and the BBC report it. Weird.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8422942.stm

Welcome to Bad Camo!

This blog is about everything dysfunctional having to do with camouflage uniforms. To start us off-- a nice steaming hot piece of crappy camo. It's blue! No novelty camo, this. It's the print-pattern the US Navy did _not_ choose in its trials between 2004 and 2009.
Maybe the Navy need to review what cammies are all about. The original thought behind disruptive pattern-printed uniforms was to make the wearer less visible to an enemy. Now, the colours in this uniform _are_ lovely _and_ not at all likely to attract one's attention in a glance, but, really, _blue_?
The one big blue thing near a sailor wearing this pattern would be the sea. Cmdr. Salamander [ http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2010/01/nwu-unending-nightmare.html ] calls this "only fall overboard once" clothing, and reminds us with the phrase "paint sponge" that one issue the Navy itself made priority in choosing this uniform was the similarity of the uniform's coloours to those the Navy uses to paint nearly _everything_. This is after all the navy that gave us the saying, "If it moves, salute it; if it doesn't move, pick it up; and if you can't pick it up, paint it."