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Surplus abandoned buttons a long time ago. Go with ykk
I like 5050 nylon cotton or polycotton. Inb4 the softshell fags raid with their 400 ultrabarbie wear.
Get a cs95 on varusteleka and dye it from joanns dye, salt, and hot water. The desert fabric is lighter thus easier to dye.
100 cotton will dry slow. I like Schaefers over carhartt duck like paul harrels duck cotton coat.
He gets his field coats used from the mid 20th century. You can find something similar from like ll bean barn coat or something.
But schaefers 15 oz bush cloth is bomb proof. Carhartts is often 12 oz. I tried breaking in a 15 oz schaefer bush cloth and I couldnt beat it. I laundered it dozens of times, left it in salt water for weeks. I think laundering it tightened the weave and made it more carboard again. Probably best beat is to not wash it, oiling it made it more pliable, or finding a gravel road and dragging it from your car for an hour or day. Ive driven atvs with it on and ran straight into thorns that just scrapped the fabric without piercing.
I would totally use 100% cotton as a field jacket for a day stint that it wasnt going to heavy downpour. You can wax it like the the australian driback dusters for some water proofness but it will get heavier. I usually wear mine for bushwacking off trails into heavy brush, but use my surplus polycotton or nyco for lighter weigbt just about all else.
Ventile gets an honorable mention as a dense woven 100 cotton that breathes well and is durable. The cotton swells when it gets wet and makes it pretty watertight. But it gets heavu then, takes a long time to dry, and not very comfortable. Its also expensive since most the manufacturers now are solely in the UK.
There is also
Even though its denim, prison blues gets an honorable mention for cheap usa made clothinf made by people trying to work their way out of prison.
