Have you thought of the military implications of what you are suggesting? Both from a camouflage and the more dodgy covert possibilities...
Consider the effects on identification of criminal suspects. The crime is comitted, they head round the corner and come back out in a totally different-coloured outfit. On-the-street identification would become a matter of faces. Assuming you couldn't polymerise your face...
Safety is an interesting feature of this- The police could turn up to accidents in their standard dark coloured jackets, then have a bright yellow police badge appear on the back in cases of low visibility!
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Have you thought of the military implications of what you are suggesting? Both from a camouflage and the more dodgy covert possibilities... Consider the effects on identification of criminal suspects. The crime is comitted, they head round the corner and come back out in a totally different-coloured outfit. On-the-street identification would become a matter of faces. Assuming you couldn't polymerise your face... Safety is an interesting feature of this- The police could turn up to accidents in their standard dark coloured jackets, then have a bright yellow police badge appear on the back in cases of low visibility!