Happy Halloween from bibprofessor – and thoughts about overalls vs business suit !

Happy Halloween from up here in dark North, and I have already given the first sweets to kids on our street coming in their costumes ! no matter that it is big commercial event ! it is in any case nice to have this event bringing some festivities to the neighborhood on an ordinary Saturday ! but I am also longing to San Francisco with all kinds of pumpkin lanterns and going to the opera this evening, where most of the audience is just as much in fantastic costumes as the actors on stage ! but now I am here in the North and that’s fine, especially when I can listen to Mission Bohemeia cd bought at my favorite cafe La Boheme so I admit, I am longing after my second home, San Francisco, where I 8 years ago discovered the qualities of overalls ! and then to this question about overalls and why all this talk about overalls ! Well, overalls are no guarantee for being liberal or hippie, in fact very conservative farmers wear overalls all the time ! but overalls give everybody wearing them an opportunity to breathe all the way down without restricting belts etc. so no matter if you are right or left or in the middle, you can stand more sturdy in overalls than something dividing you on the middle and much better insist on being yourself independent of your point of view ! and I know some would be worried and unsure to wear overalls when doing business, especially in cities, but see for instance Farmer Jones and I have done it myself when I was to cocktail party in Franceand I am now into opera business, a very stylish world, but for that I have now convinced my wife to knit a very stylish woolen jacket to go along with my black overalls ! so it is possible if you are creative ! and to finish this post I will also refer to my genetic roots ! an old merchant who wore the clothes he liked until they almost fell off him, so when some of my old friends are asking me to change style in order to look like a rich guy or a VIP, Very important person, I am saying no! and the very big quality by insisting on that is that you can survive no matter you are becoming unemployed, need to survive on a minimum etc. be happy in a simple lifestyle no matter how big or small projects you are doing or doing it with kings or people on the street ! so Evelyn give it an extra thought or a try before you buy business suit instead of overalls as mentioned in our dear friend and one of the really overalls guys Laury’s blog today, have a nice weekend and halloween!

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 !