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The kevlar lederhosen sounds much more practical than the 38-lb "protective ensemble" (does this phrase prove "military fashion" is an oxymoron) the Army is buying.

The Army, with thousands more troops in Iraq than the other services, considered the Kevlar shorts but instead is buying a far more elaborate suit of armor for its gunners.

The "Cupola Protective Ensemble'' includes a visor and neck guard, a jacket with full sleeves and pants with a groin protector. The bulletproof, blast-proof package weighs 38 pounds and requires an internal cooling system in Iraq's broiling heat. The Army is paying $9,400 a set, roughly five times what the Air Force paid for its Kevlar shorts.

Clark's Kevlar shorts are so much cheaper because they are far simpler.

Made from 28 layers of Kevlar, the stronger-than-steel fabric used in flak vests, the L.B. Technologies shorts are outerwear. They weigh 11.5 pounds, including suspenders needed to hold them up. They look more like Lederhosen — the quaint leather shorts of Bavaria — than bulletproof boxers.

This article makes it sound like the DoD is having the same problems supplying kevlar shorts as it had providing armored Humvees.