my bibs are Dickies....... are they cool? or are they the Bobos of bib overalls? I'm new to the game and I'm pretty rough on them
in other words, if I wear my Dickies to West Virginia; will I blend in, or look like a tourist?
The answer, of course, is "who cares."
I have seen all the clothes hanging in my closet for 20 years come back into style. I wore a forest green carharrt pearl snap western shirt out for a fish fry a month ago and had a young man ask where I got it. I told him Fleet Farm circa 1994.
Millenials and after are so programmed they haven't had a chance to make their own fashion statement, they just keep living through the ones their parents or grandparents had.
Like leather coats. In the 90's, black leather coats came into their own. Then, for whatever reason, went totally out of style. Probably still, to a point.
I have 3 of them hanging up, 2 are winter style, one is longer. I wore it out last winter. I had an older fellow actually reach out to feel the material on my arm. He saw my "wtf" expression. he asked me if it was real, and where I got it. I told him I have had it for years because if you treat it properly it will last most of your lifetime. He said he hadn;t seen a nice leather coat in a decade. Why did they stop making them? Cost? Save the planet types get pissy about animal skins again? I know for a few years the 1930's wool trench coats came back. Maybe it was a clash of nice looking classy overcoats?
International clothing scene, walmart-ization of the country: one of the first things to go was quality and durability. It's slowly coming back around, things got so bad I think people finally said F it and are spending the price gap to get stuff that will last more then 3 wash cycles. But to do it, you have to find smaller businesses, or locals. Soon as somthing hits bigger, mega-corp comes in to "sell at national level" and then the foreign labor and globalization of material sources happens and it all goes to pot.
Some resist. I do think Dickies makes some nice stuff yet. I have a slug of their work socks, they wear like iron. Sometimes the "utility" minded stuff puts the quality where it matters and the rest is happenstance. Personally, I like the older designs, because I have nostalgia from my Pa and Grandpa. Like Oshkosh B'gosh denim overalls, or those sort of striped "train conductor" patterned ones. Grandpa wore those with his moc-toe wolverine brown leather work shoes. I have a denim 70's era blanket lined Oshkosh chore coat from him yet. I will never sell it. I bet if I wore it out people would ask where I got it.
So you should wear the overalls as you like them. Because all that stuff comes back around anyway. Maybe you will be a trend setter and not even know it lol
........ hence the flag
