The military uniforms of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters and the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region are gray.
The military uniforms of the troops in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border region are divided into gray and blue. The summer clothes of the Jinchaji Military Region 1938 troops are grass green, the winter clothes are gray, and then they are unified into khaki.
In the early period of the Anti-Japanese War, the military uniform of 120 Division was gray. After 1940, because blue sulfur dyes could not be bought in enemy-occupied areas, yellow dyes could be extracted from Sophora japonica seeds and other plants, and the military uniform was changed to yellow.
Shandong Military Region 1943 Summer clothes are green and winter clothes are khaki. The New Fourth Army is gray.
The main material of military uniform is coarse cloth (homespun), followed by fine cloth (foreign cloth). In addition, woolen cloth and leather are also used as military uniform materials. After 1943, the uniform materials of the troops in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border region were more uniform than before, with single clothes as "semi-foreign cloth", shirts as "pure foreign cloth" and winter clothes as "pure homespun cloth". The uniforms of the troops in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region are mostly fine cloth, and the styles and colors are also good.
Because of the "dog-beating" movement in Jizhong base area, the army once made winter clothes out of dog skin materials.
The eighth route army headquarters and 120 division used coarse and fine fabrics for their winter clothes, and the leather jacket of 1944 was also made of leather.