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In the beginning of Naruto, the Kazekage wears blue clothing:

![Third Kazekage](https://i.stack.imgur.com/XZPEX.png)

When Gaara becomes Kazekage, the color changes to green:

![Gaara](https://i.stack.imgur.com/h5yMS.png)

Is this ever explained, either by the show or by one of the creators?


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Why does the color of the Kazekage's garb change?


As of episode 305 of _Naruto: Shippuden_ , this does not appear to have any
official word, either by the creators or in the story.

It seems that, for some reason, the garb was initially portrayed as blue in
the anime. However, the official cover of volume 49 of the manga portrays it
as green (the _Kazekage_ is in the top left here, of course):

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/rvJY2.jpg)

As you can see, the _Mizukage_ should be the one who has the blue garb; this
appears to be an error in the anime. However, as you noticed, it was corrected
in _Naruto: Shippuden_ episode 199 and forward.[[ _Naruto_
Wiki]](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Kazekage?oldid=750780#Trivia)


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This is probably because Mei (the Mizukage) has the blue hat (water is most
commonly associated with the color blue), so they changed Gaara's hat to green
(2 blue hats would've looked weird...)


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