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!

Motto for International Overalls Day Nov 20: Make overalls the default dress code !

Now there is only 13 days left before 1st international overalls Day and one thing is clear, the primary reason why people are choosing overalls as their favorite clothing is comfort and thus the possibility of relaxing and breathing all the way down from your head to your feet, so as mentioned yesterday, why not making overalls to the default dress code, couldn’t be fun to see signs: only overalls are allowed !:), well, I really don’t want to press people something they don’t like, but then one could make a recommendation ! then it is still up to people to decide ! So let us show the people why it is so wonderful to wear overalls on ordinary days as well as to parties, like myself in the kitchen today and to a New Year party a few years ago after a glass or two of wine !:) So be ready for November 20 !!

Celebrate overalls day with overalls photos all over the web

getting close to 1st international overalls day, I am posting a photo from my recent visit to San Francisco visiting my dear friend Mary, our landlady, when we lived in SF for a year. Sometimes I may feel crazy doing all this about overalls ! but Mary supports me with full heart ! and I am also so grateful for people like Laury who is posting overalls photos every day now and Farmer Lee who is going to have everybody on his farm to wear overalls on November 20 and make a group photo on the web on November 20, so if a lot of blogging people, who love overalls, are going to put photos on from now on and especially on November 20 and tell why they love overalls ! it could be really fun and please take a look on my own flickr album as well as Laurys album and I also have an idea on making a book and I will come back to that !

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 !

R Lauren Fashion show in New York, worn out overalls the big hit!

well, now overalls are really on their way into the fashion world, and as you can read in New York Times some like it and some does not like it ! but now it should also be for men ! that would be fantastic ! and now I am really looking forward to go to San Francisco and take a look in the thrift stores for very fashionable overalls for a nice price !! and then to New York and show them ! great inspiration for the coming overalls day on November 20th

are we all farmgirls ?

well, yesterday I discovered a ministry of overalls ! and as usual I wrote that I and a bunch of farmgirls were working on making an international overalls day ! well, perhaps I would have love to be a farmgirl, well I am a man, working as university professor etc. , but it might not be completely true despite I feel very much comfort in the company of farmgirls and other men and women and all in-between, gay etc. etc. and in fact advocate for a diversity as broad as possible and funny enough many of us loving to live a simple life, enjoy food and gardening, love to wear overalls ! and it is not only elder people like me and others over 50 ! take a look here to read an amazing story about overalls through generations ! a perfect example for an overalls book (hope that we can make that)

thoughts about why I feel happy and sort of found myself !

well, today I really feel so happy, why ? well, I believe I have found my true friends among overalls fans, Laury, Maya, Susan etc. apparently mostly farm girls and artists!, why, perhaps I’m not an ordinary man, but I happens to like down to earth simple life, to garden, make food, cakes etc. and do shopping in thrift stores finding cool and comfortable clothes, read: well worn, yeah, almost worn out clothes, especially overalls! I have not met many men with same interests ? well, perhaps I should not worry about that ! but I also like music and art in general, especially opera and all this have very little to do with science and academia and I am professor in documentation studies and just submitted a scientific article on document theory, how does all this fit together ???, well, if you earn money as professor and have time and possibilities to enjoy thrifting, food, garden, coffee etc. it makes sense, at least for me, so I am so happy to have found myself by getting connected to all the other overalls fans united in making November 20th to an international Overalls day! “national day” for the “overalls nation” ; well, in order to say that not everything is perfect, I am wondering how we honor all the guys who wear overalls every day without thinking of it as something special ! or is that at all a problem?, probably not, it is just me who is rabbling now! so I will stick to the good feelings and enjoy good life as much as possible. The photo is taken in July 2007 in front of our Danish farmhouse with my wonderful wife and our oldest son and a nephew and his friend.

passions of coffee, scones and t-shirts besides overalls !

Some have wondered if I am not interested in anything else than overalls, well, I am ! for instance I could not live (or missing important things) without good coffee, homemade scones and well worn t-shirts, being so thin that I can breathe ! I hate new t-shirts since they are so tight so it is difficult for me to breathe ! thats the same with overalls ! ha, ha, always returning to overalls somehow, but anyway, overalls works very well indeed with coffee, scones, do you want the recipe ?, and t-shirts, even if it is a problem with funny signs on them, when you wear overalls ! but then you have at least one problem to struggle with if not anything else ! and now I am going to make some new scones before my wife comes back from work !

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 !