OT: Coveralls and age

JDNewbie · Oct 21, 2011

Saw dave2's post about sagging pants and the younger generation. I didn't want to hijack his thread, but I have question along the same lines.

I've seen so many "older" guys who just wear coveralls all the time. They have short sleeved ones for summer and long sleeved ones for winter and some even have newer ones they only wear for going to town. There is usually some kind of elastic belt/waistband to go with it.

At what age do men decide it is just too much work to put on pants AND a shirt and decide to just wear coveralls (not bibs) all the time?

I'm not criticizing. Only poking a little fun at how folks decide what is "fashionable" or "acceptable". These guys look like they have worked all of their lives and certainly have earned the right to wear whatever they want. I'm only 35 and I hope to get to whatever age it is I can start wearing them all the time!

On another note, do you suppose these saggy pants kids will still be wearing them like that when they are 80?

John T · Oct 21, 2011

I know EXACTLY the outfit youre referring to, we go to Florida for the winter and I see plenty of them, they do look quite comfy I must admit. However, they're just not my thing, I view them more on retired former Yuppy nnalert instead of retired farmers. I wear blue jeans, wife beater undershirt, a pull over shirt (with pocket) and my baseball type of farmers hat and I'm very happy and content not having to please or care what others may think of my attire, they can "kiss my grits" if they dont like it. Old age dont have many advantages, but it brings such freedom and peace to NOT worry what others think, they can just die dumb (especially the left wing pinkos) I figure.. SOOOOOOOO LET EM WEAR THOSE POLYESTER STRETCH FIT JUMP SUITS NO CONCERN OF MINE LOL I just greet them with "How ya doin there Lester Polyester"

From an old Jimmy Buffett Song "He went to Paris" about an old fart.....

Now he lives in the islands, fishes the pilins
And drinks his green label each day
Writing his memoirs, losin his hearin
But he don't care what most people say

Through eighty-six years of perpetual motion
If he likes you hell smile and hell say
Jimmy, some of it's magic, some of it's tragic
But I had a good life all the way

Yep, its been a good ride

God Bless

A nostalgic and very contented John T

Jonak · Oct 21, 2011

No Baggy Drawers. Always shirt and pants w/belt. Don't know what age, I'm only 81

jackinok · Oct 21, 2011

my problem is if i find a pair of coveralls to fit the width i seem to have spread out to in the last 10 years,they would be dragging behind me three feet!I like coveralls myself,i just never could figure out how to size the things to fit.must be some kind of secret code or something. (by the way,neighbor lady has named me b@tt crack jack, now aint that a nickname!LOL !).I aint decided if everything above my waist is falling and pushing my britches off,or every thing below my waist is shrinking up and letting them fall off!i would look in a mirror to see but its too depressing,,,

casenut1 · Oct 21, 2011

the young guys and their saggy pants do have a
advantage , for the lawman that is . have heard of a
couple of instances where they tried to run from the
law and they couldn't do it . LOL

Paul from MI · Oct 21, 2011

Levis and a t shirt in the summer. Light flannel insulated shirt over the t in spring and fall. Carhartts over that in the winter. Red Wings or Northerners on my feet and I'm good to go, except to town with my wife. That's another story!

Paul from MI · Oct 21, 2011

P.S.: Age 68

mkirsch · Oct 21, 2011

My 77-year-old uncle wears bib overalls for working because they're more comfortable. No waistband or belt biting, pants stay up, shirt stays tucked in...

I gotta imagine the coveralls are done for the same reason: pure comfort.

Sadly, I do know some older guys who have lost their wives (read: housekeepers) to illness/age. Wearing coveralls reduces the amount of laundry to be done... Heck you can wear a set of coveralls for a week and nobody is the wiser.

Spook · Oct 21, 2011

I am a blue jeans and t guy. But I am surprised at the older guys out in public, dressed in old sweatpants and grungy shirts. I mean if youre going to the store, you can't get dressed??? Some of these guys look like they live in those rags. I was in a party store recently. Guy comes in dressed like a bum, gets some cigs, a lottery ticket, and a fifth of whisky. Has his kid with him, looked to be maybe 8 or 9. Leaves, gets in his big lifted pick up, lights up a cigg, then takes off. I am pretty abundant about a lot of stuff, but this is a role model? If you wondered where rednecks come from, I'd guess this is it.

rrlund · Oct 21, 2011

Bibs. For many,many years now.

ILLEFTY · Oct 21, 2011

Had to wear bibs when gtowing up and hated them. Now I can't wait for cooler weather so I can wear them again. They're too hot for me in the summer

the tractor vet · Oct 21, 2011

Even when i am working i still like to be somewhat neat and dressed proper Do i waer bib's when the job calls for it but for the most part it is jeans and shot sleeves for summer with not tee shirt , late spring and early fall long sleeve med. weight shirt Late fall and till the temps go above 60 it is heavy flannels and insulated tops and then the insulated Carharts . I AM NOT A COLD WEATHER person . and i have not found a pair of boots or gloves to keep the feet and hands warm.

Mike (WA) · Oct 21, 2011

Used to wear bibs all the time, but decided they were too hot (and too much baggage to carry around) in the summer, so switched to jeans and suspenders, with a T shirt or old "polo" shirt. I get Dickie jeans on sale for about 8 bucks- you can get them in pretty large waist size but still not baggy like clown pants.

Nearly the same outfit when I go to town- but a little nicer polo shirt, and put on OVER the suspenders. Then I pretty much look like anyone else hanging around.

rrlund · Oct 21, 2011

My problem is,I've been wearin bibs for so long that I don't have a waste anymore. Can't keep a regular pair of pants up for nothin. Suspenders would cut my shoulders right off tryin to do all the work.

Dmack · Oct 21, 2011

Personally, I'd rather see bibs and coveralls than pants down below their crack with their drawers showing. I don't beleive there is an age limit on this. Just my thinking out loud.

Brad Buchanan · Oct 21, 2011

I know what you are sayin about the hands and feet. I lost about a hundred pounds over a couple of years and am much more sensative to cold.

Oddly I found that those goofy 'mickey mouse' boots (surplus) actually do the trick for the feet. (you Don't pump them up)!

As for the hands no glove seems to work but insulated mittens do, until you have to turn a knob or push a button!

Brad

730 virgil · Oct 21, 2011

t shirt and jeans most of the time unless it is really hot then it is t shirt and cut offs.
now that it is getting cool it will be bib overalls.

ShadetreeRet · Oct 21, 2011

Yeah, some of them will be wearing saggy pants when they are 80. Not because they refuse to pull them up, but because they FORGOT to pull them up!

Dean Olson · Oct 21, 2011

Between old age and this economy I'm losing my azz. Considering
going to suspenders or bibs. Coveralls are too slow if I need a
quick restroom break.

glennster · Oct 21, 2011

way back when i was a little shaver, i got to go with one of the neighbor farmers and his kids to farm and fleet. pretty big adventure, it was about an hour and a half or so away. we go to get some hydraulic hoses, and there is a woman there, pretty good size, wearing blue coveralls. had the coveralls unziped a ways down. she bends over to get something off the lower shelf and one of her...er....hoots jumps out. she grabs it, hollers "git in there you s.o.b" and stuffs it back in her coveralls. she continued on like nothing happened. us kids just stood there, jaws dropped!!!

shaun wallace · Oct 21, 2011

Yall forgot about the velcro tenny runners that go with the coveralls.

Chris(WA) · Oct 21, 2011

I been wearing coverall's as my work uniform for better than 30 years! Since my early 20's I guess. Handier and heavier duty than work pants and shirts.
I know the style ones you are talking about and mine are not those. Worse yet is when you see some fella in pastel colors that match his wifes !!

Mike (WA) · Oct 22, 2011

Dolly Parton had a "wardrobe malfunction" on live TV- dress split at the seam, at a strategic area, shall we say. She laughed and said "Thats what ya get for trying to put 20 pounds of mud in a 10 pound sack."

MarkB_MI · Oct 22, 2011

I'm 54 years old and I've yet to see a skinny man wearing bib overalls.

Back in the 70's some of the old pharts started wearing "jump suits", brightly colored short sleeved coveralls. I guess you can still buy them. You couldn't look more ridiculous if you came to work wearing pajamas and bunny slippers.

Oldmax · Oct 22, 2011

I to have lost 100lbs over the last 4 years . My a&& isn't big enough to hold a pair of jeans and a belt doesn't seem to help Have gone to suspenders, but don't like them I some times wear bibs but don't like overalls .

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