Overall, you have the Sun 24 hours, especially in the North

Overalls are not everything,even for me ! for instance I live up here in the very north, 69 degrees North, where we enjoy Midnight sun, giving us incredible beautiful views no matter how long you have seen it, never getting tired of that, except that you unfortunately needs some sleep, even in summer time ! have a nice overall weekend, not bad if you both have sun overall wearing overalls !:)

revisiting who am I,really? what about an overall ethnicity ? apropos July 4th

Well, today people in U.S.A. celebrate the independence day and this takes me back to the whole start of this blog 2 years ago, when I wrote about an “overall ethnicity” and I am wondering if that is what unites me with people like Susan, Maya, Tigon, Laury, etc. etc. no matter where you are in the world making us one overalls nation, not in an exclusive sense, but just a nation of free choice of people wanting to wear something which makes you happy and easy going and more and more beautiful as your overalls are worn, good life in a simple way, and the photo is from my Silver wedding in 2005 in SF, really a nice place for overalls people, so today I am happy and thankful today for having a US with so many nice and creative overalls people and I want to congratulate you all.

in my first jeans jacket from ‘63 (2nd hand!) and overalls

yes, here I am in my very first jeans jacket, which I borrowed from my big brother back in 63, when he had had it for 2 years, so it is almost 50 years now, at least 48 years old ! and I can still wear it, thanks to patches done both myself and my very creative wife, who always have been willing to do all kinds of patches on the jacket and my jeans before I discovered overalls ! more photos of my denim art, if I may be allowed to call it !:), on my flickr album

genetic reason for simple clothes design ?

Well, I love overalls and I have decided not to leave them behind in order to obtain some power or money for my other professional projects ! just like the brother to my 4th great-grand father, Jens Harpoth, a merchant, who lived in a small Danish town around 1800, had his very own frugal style even if he was very wealthy !, and one story about him goes like this: one day he went out to a country inn; wearing his old well worn clothes since he thought clothes should be worn to its limits and patches were not a bad thing! but anyway, the inn keeper was another kind of man and he thought that his new guest without looking close, didn’t look “properly” so he throw him out of the door. Then some of the other guests shouted: you just kicked out one of the richest men around here ! and then the inn keeper tried to get Jens back, but that was too late ! in other words, simple living has a long history ! lets celebrate it every day, and especially on November 20 of course !

my very first overalls: young bibfessor anno 1972 !

scanned photo from my Summer holidays July 1972 in Denmark on a Chinese bicycle

you can wear other clothes than overalls !:), but…

http://soardreamfrance.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/06/pearls-and-overalls.html saw this link about Laurey, who appears to wear overalls almost all the time and get picked by people for doing that, so she showed that she at least has one dress, but don’t think she is going to leave overalls, no, no, it is just to be allowed to keep wearing overalls almost all time !

more to join overalls day November 20 ?

Some have told us that they are ready, but it could be nice to hear from more, who would like to join us !

Be ready for 1st International Overalls Day November 20th !

Now Susan, notquitejunecleaver,com, and I are ready for the big day, November 20th, celebrating overalls, so be ready to wear your overalls, get a pair if you don’t have them already or find them in your closet !

overalls jackets

one thing is the overalls, but it just becomes perfect when you also have an overall jacket suiting to your overalls, the Big Ben is from thrift store in SF (and one of my first overalls were Big Ben!) and Kansas from a Danish thriftstore, and my wife is working on a new overalls jacket for me making me entering the opera world in overalls, that is going to be fun ! and one of the really amazing qualities like notquitejunecleaver mentioned about her overalls in front of Art museum (yes, lets mix fine art and opera with overalls !), one time dark blue and then years after light faded blue, is sort of overalls patina !

how I found my first overalls

Well, I told notquitejunecleaver, how I actually become an overalls guy, because it is actually only 8 years ago ! In the 70ties I had a pair of striped overalls, but they were so new and tight and not at all soft and comfy and I was very very shy and anxious in those days, stuttering and weak legs and frightened by all the movements etc. so it was many years after when I went to California for the first time in ‘99. I had just had a break down due to too much work as professor building up a new department and I was still the little polio boy from the early 50ties inside myself and could not lift a cup ! but then in 99 I came to a therapist, who asked me to relax my body and breathe all the way down ! and then I came to California for the first time and went to cafés in Mission district and saw relaxed people sitting and do all kinds of work, wow, is that ok ? and then I came back for half a year in 2001 and saw some people in cafés in overalls, wow, is that possible and ok, well then I went to Clothes contact on Valencia in Mission, SF and found a whole bunch of used, soft overalls and my new life began as 52 years old ! and now overalls is more or less my signature and my wife and kids (grown up!) enjoy having a relaxed and relieved DH and daddy ! and now I have got a grandson and he is for sure going to be a bib overalls guy ! thats why almost every day is an overall day for me and I really look forward to celebrate it with all of you who enjoy wearing overalls !