[Porkchop]

There was some dpm pants issued to abn in the 70's but they were made of the same material as the smock, sort of a wind proof material.

The abn smock came in two patterns, tan dominant and reversed brown dominant. The reversed brown dominant is the more recent issue.

The regular combats that you may come across in dpm, both the shirt and the pants are overflow from a contract that Peerless garments produced for the Tanzanian Army in East Africa in the mid 1970's. The Canadian Forces have never worn these items as standard issue.
Checking the inside of the pants or the shirt you will find that there never was a tag in them as usually is the case with CF gear, containing the Nato stock number.The base material, however, is the same as the regular pine-green combats.
If you happen to come across this stuff, it is starting to become pretty rare.

The dpm on these combats is very close to that worn by the Dutch Marines.