Hello from the North to overalls fans overall the globe ready for first overalls day Nov 20!

Hi everybody, during the last day or 2, a lot of bib overalls fans have shown up on facebook thanks to Woodstock Lily and Jodi so a lot of people are preparing celebrations on Friday next week ! that’s just fantastic! I had never dreamed of that when Susan and I got the idea earlier this year and then joined by Laury and Maya so even if I am a rare person here in Norway standing in the auditorium in overalls, I now really feel there is a shared happiness among those who wear overalls because it is comfortable, relaxing and a special joy of following the process of fading and getting almost torn and fringed etc. but then patched in many creative and colorful ways ! like my old jeans jacket from ‘61 and “new” key overalls from 2001 so I am really looking forward to see how the first overalls day is going to be like! and please take a look at notquitejunecleaver tomorrow for recipes for overalls celebration parties next week!

Go to thrift stores and become fashionable for a nice price !

Go to your nearest thrift store and look for overalls, hopefully you will be as lucky as I am here in San Francisco, at Mission Thrift and Clothes contact on Valencia. They have lots of well worn overalls, although most I saw yesterday were in pretty big size, around 40-34, but I also found a “new” Round house pair ! wonderful and overalls folks out there, please tell me and other overalls fans how your experience is preparing for having a good life every day and for the big overalls day !

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 !

wearing big smith at work in business world

Well,it turns out to not be a big deal wearing overalls like these big smith in a big company, where I am working right now, even if it is in their design and development section and that may explain why it is so unproblematic, but it is wonderful to do it, making me much more relaxed and able to do what I am supposed to do !and they are bought 2 or 3 years ago in a thrift store in San Francisco !:) so a big hurra for expanding the space for wearing overalls !

conscious clothing, hurra for threadbanger, for instance bibs out of jeans

take a look on this http://www.threadbanger.com/episode/THR_20070720 it is a video of a blog for conscious clothing for people making clothes in their own way, for instance the story told in my earlier post about making overalls out of 2 pair of jeans, using natural materials, recycling clothes into new forms, really great to do it
I makes me really happy to see all the frugal and beautiful clothing coming in the middle of the situation where the environment is changing due to bad habits and now we are moving forward towards good habits, I also read some place yesterday that perhaps US is moving to the left ?!? perhaps too optimistic, but threadbanger is really something!

creative slowly (very slowly) recycling jeans into overalls

Check this out, http://www.threadbanger.com/post/1378/how-to-make-overalls-out-of-old-jeans I suppose it will take long time, but it is creative, cool and reusing old jeans, in brief, overalls fun