Hi-vis jacket and camouflage trousers mystery

SIR – Andy Trask (Letters, February 1) asks why a man was wearing both a high-visibility jacket and camouflage trousers.

Perhaps he was working in the concrete jungle.

Cameron Morice

Reading, Berkshire

SIR – A high-visibility jacket and camouflage trousers?

That would be a politician on manoeuvres.

Bob Stebbings

Chorleywood, Hertfordshire

SIR – Surely the man Andy Trask saw was a postman.

The jacket prevents him from being run over when crossing the road; the trousers ensure his legs are less visible to dogs minded to attack him during his post round.

Rev Christopher Roberts

Sutton Coldfield

SIR – I don’t know why the man that Mr Trask saw was wearing a highvisibility jacket and camouflage trousers. It would not surprise me if, in these bizarre times of activist-driven dress codes, the health and safety lobby enforced similar clothing on infantry soldiers.

Jeremy Mallin

Solihull

SIR – A few years ago, near a local army base, a small camouflaged tank appeared at a junction.

The commander was at the turret, wearing a camouflaged helmet, jacket, gloves and a high-visibility jacket.

It is a good job he did, too – I might not have spotted the tank on my commute home through rural Northumberland.

Ray Bather

Allendale, Northumberland

SIR – I have always been puzzled as to why, here in France, members of la chasse wear high-visibility waistcoats over their full camouflage clothing.

Presumably this is to prevent them shooting at each other.

Edwin Keates

Manot, Charente, France