Is it excessive to wear overalls all the time ?

It is still strange to me why is it so special to wear overalls, regarding both people like myself, who can’t help preferring to wear overalls all the time and those people, who find it ugly and only for farmers etc.
I just ran into this story, http://www.rachaelrayshow.com/?q=overalls-overhaul , about Nancy who in a great video-clip, tells that she owns more than 30 overalls and with joy and love describes how she keeps all her overalls working by patching and over patching etc. and how wonderful she felt it, when she lost weight in ‘93 enabling her to wear overalls, accomplishing an old dream!. She has overalls for every time of the year, black overalls for Christmas (like myself, take a look, here http://moblog.co.uk/view.php?id=215029) But now something has happened, because she now believes it may too excessive just to wear overalls; it becomes a problem for her!. Then she gots an advice from Cojo, a fashion expert in a talk show, who says “I really believe in feeling good about yourself and putting something decent on. I think people are down when they just go to something rumpled and dirty – they look depressed” Then Nancy gets some decent jersey dress etc.
I feel really sorry for Nancy. Why is people necessary down and depressed when they have dirty overalls on ?? How can she continue to work in the garden and kitchen and enjoy the weekends in the same way as before wearing lovely worn out, old patched and repatched overalls?
I will hope that Nancy some day gets across one of her overalls-colleagues, Susan at http://notquitejunecleaver.com Susan has really some good arguments in case, somebody told her that it was too excessive to wear overalls. Take a look here http://notquitejunecleaver.com/2007/01/24/i-have-been-tagged6-weird-thingshmmmmm/ where Susan among other things says that if she cannot go to a place in overalls, it may not be a place worth going ! That’s clear speech.

you create many of your roots as you travel through life world wide

Again, I won’t say that my ancestors do not mean anything for me, of course they do. I must admit my genetic heritage and no less all the stories being told in my family. Still, I believe it is possible to root yourself to a large extent by making you at home in different places around the world. You do that by getting some job and make you more or less indispensable in a place you like! It may sound a bit too smart, but the main point here is that you do not in advance refrain yourself from making a new place to your new “home”. Well, if you go to a place and say: “wow, here is it wonderful to be, this is my home!” most people will appreciate that and you may be able to get friends for life, even if you move to another place. Today, with Internet, email and blogs, it makes it even easier to keep the contact with people and really live as a world citizen with fellows around the world. I may have a local community after all, but it is distributed or decentralized in many places on the earth.

more thoughts on who am I, roots etc. from Snowland

I continue on this issue on who am I and roots and that kind of stuff. It is strange that when I was a teenager and young man, I was dedicated to study my ancestors, to dig in the local history and to be involved in local community work etc. and as I am growing older year after year, I become less and less interested in local issues and studying the family tree etc. When I was sitting in the Archive as teenager, most people were old retired ones, claiming that family history was becoming more and more important for them. For me it is completely opposite. At the same time, I am interested in finding my “real” roots, if I have some! Sometimes I wonder if there are other people who also feel as world citizens, being at home in several places around the world, not being related to only one place ? It could be fun if some other people would contribute to this discussion.

Philharmonic coffee is the best, also at Easter time

I have just enjoyed Philz coffee from San Francisco in my Norwegian home celebrating Easter bringing memories back from our last day in San Francisco at Philz before we went to Seattle by train!

coffee, opera and overalls, any connections ?

well, it may seem quite weird to see any connection between coffee, opera and overalls, but for me they are just what good life is about apart from having a wonderful family. When I can have a cup of coffee, made on beans from Philz’s coffee on 24th. in San Francisco, the Philharmonic sort, while wearing one of my favorite overalls, bought at Mission thrift on Mission and watch the movie about Mozart and his personal struggles about making his kind of opera, then I cannot complain!

who am I,really? what about an overall ethnicity/identity ? bibs as folk costume ?!

Well, I am born in a city in Denmark, born out of a family with peasants and merchants, grew up as teenager on a sheep farm, learned to drive a tractor and became an historian and teacher on a Library School. After some years I and my family moved to a small island with a very strong feeling of being something special and having their own folk costumes. But I was not born there, so I could not really feel that identity. When we moved up to Norway after some years we experience May 17th. when people are wearing their folk costumes and again I dont really belong to that category either. Neither to the indigenous people up here, also having their own folk costumes. But then 6 years ago, I went to California and finally found my folk costume, the bibs ! bib overalls!! I really feel that I am myself when I am wearing my bibs. I have bibs for different occassions, for christmas, for classes on University, for working in the garden etc.
I know that there are other people having it in the same way as I do, so why not making a bib festival?, or a special BIB day ?? , oh no, every day is a bib day !!

bib overalls – why is that so special ?

I am wondering why some people are very negative towards bib overalls and some are so dedicated to overalls, talking about being buried in overalls etc. How can it be that a piece of clothes becomes so special ? In U.S.A. it is quite normal, especially on farms, but also, at least in California. But not in town and not at all when you are an academic! You become special when you wear overalls all the time !! I have seen some discussions among farmgirls/farmwomen, what about male farmers, perhaps they have no time for discussing that kind of stuff.

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Here I am trying to blog about my passions, coffee, opera and overalls