Can (sort of) relate to the 'that wasn't worn like that', folk...........
well from a reenacting point, anyways.:-)
In the dim and distant I use to portray Canadian OR Italy 1943,...after extensive research, via archives in Canada,..and unit historys, i discovered that they DIDN'T blanco their webbing,.........(in fact they use to leave it in salt water for as long as to bleach it down even more,)..........only to run into a'button/stitch counter at very first event. :yawn:.........after he had gone on for a while,..........making himself look stupid, I hasten to add,.......I informed him, chapter and verse where his infomation was WRONG;
Moral here was/is, if I'd NOT done the research and just accepted his outpourings,........I'd have been doing a real dis-service to those guys who wore the kit for real.
Oh and the Arrse site.............:whistle: