It must take skill to wear bib overalls

[oosik]

I had a pair. Never could get them adjusted just right. Alway "rode up" when they should have been down. Now I will wear heavy canvas pants( like Carharts) and suspenders. More flex, more give - always in the correct place.

Perhaps it's simply a matter of shape - my pear shape.

 

[bridge4]

Only poor kids wore them when I was growing up; I swore when I could afford my own clothes I would never wear them again...and I haven't for 65 years. And yes, if you don't watch the gallouses (suspenders), they get in the way of bodily functions and you have to wear them until you can change. Being wet wasn't too bad, but...

:laughing::laughing:

It's neat to me to hear why you won't wear them. I am only 33, but when I was growing up it was more a "redneck" thing than a poor thing. As I get older I care less and less about style and what people think, and more and more about how comfortable I am while people are judging me

I got some duluth trading company insulated bibs I can wear in -20 weather with no pants underneath and be warm while I groom ski trails. I wouldn't want them on in the summer though!

 

[dougtrr2]

Bibs are my workwear of choice around the acreage. I was sad when OshKosh quit making adult bibs.

On a related note. My uncle was a machinist at Quaker Oats and worked with a man that always wore OshKosh bibs to work. One day they saw him in the back of the shop standing in his underwear. His bibs got tangled up in a lathe. He was big and strong enough that he fought it off until the bibs were ripped off his body. With the triple stitching it makes me cringe to think of the pain in the crotch area as they were ripped off. Be safe out there.

Doug in SW IA

 

[ruffdog]

.... the pain in the crotch area as they were ripped off.

It sounds like it could of been much worse!

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Bibs are my workwear of choice around the acreage. I was sad when OshKosh quit making adult bibs.

On a related note. My uncle was a machinist at Quaker Oats and worked with a man that always wore OshKosh bibs to work. One day they saw him in the back of the shop standing in his underwear. His bibs got tangled up in a lathe. He was big and strong enough that he fought it off until the bibs were ripped off his body. With the triple stitching it makes me cringe to think of the pain in the crotch area as they were ripped off. Be safe out there.

Doug in SW IA

Amazing you should post that; my Dad said when he was a kid (in the 1920's) he said their neighbor was a big, muscular...Swede I think he said...and he got his overalls caught in the flywheel of a tractor, and he did the same thing...braced himself against the tractor and it just ripped the overalls right off of him.

 

[stuckmotor]

Amazing you should post that; my Dad said when he was a kid (in the 1920's) he said their neighbor was a big, muscular...Swede I think he said...and he got his overalls caught in the flywheel of a tractor, and he did the same thing...braced himself against the tractor and it just ripped the overalls right off of him.

I guess everyone has seen the gruesome picture floating around the internet of what was left of a man's body after he was caught in a big lathe. It makes me very cautious of spinning shafts.

 

[stuckmotor]

Only poor kids wore them when I was growing up; I swore when I could afford my own clothes I would never wear them again...and I haven't for 65 years. And yes, if you don't watch the gallouses (suspenders), they get in the way of bodily functions and you have to wear them until you can change. Being wet wasn't too bad, but...

I've noticed that poor kids wore them. That has always puzzled me because I can but a pair of pants and a tee shirt cheaper than a pair of overalls.

 

[5030]

Just a guess... but I would suppose that a lot of guys that wear bibs...do not do a lot of bending...at least too far...

Better than jeans and the 'plumbers crack' showing.....:laughing:

 

[NoTrespassing]

I tried bib overalls many years ago. It was mighty nice to have so many pockets, until I leaned over and things started falling out. After losing my favorite pocke knife, I gave up. There are many people who seldom wear anything else so, I guess they've learned what they can safely carry in which pocket. Am I rignt?

When I first started machining we used to wear aprons. The chest pockets were only attached at the top so tools wouldn't fall out when you bent over. That works great until you reach across a table for something and the 6 inch steel rule in your pocket stabs you in the chest.

Kevin

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I've noticed that poor kids wore them. That has always puzzled me because I can but a pair of pants and a tee shirt cheaper than a pair of overalls.

If I recall correctly, in the late 40's and early 50's a pair of overalls (ovah-halls) cost about $1.25 and a pair of blue jeans was about $2.00. Not only that, but if you have several boys in the family, you buy them a bit large, and you kinda grow into them...like the brogans that were about 2 sizes too big...and pass them down to little brother if there was anything left of them. I remember one kid in my grade school (rural SW Missouri) that...weather permitting...came to school wearing NOTHING but overalls...no shoes, no shirt...and I assume no underwear. Now that kid was poor...and his hands and elbows were "rusty" as Mom called it, from not bathing for weeks at a time.

The boys that lived in town were "rich". They wore blue jeans and Captain Marvel T shirts (they had their own little rich-boys club). I know one of them was the son of the local Pharmacist.