After two solid days of struggling to keep my pants up while wearing a tool belt, I finally gave in and purchased my first set of overalls. First impression: they're actually pretty comfortable and they have lots of pockets.
That is all.
After two solid days of struggling to keep my pants up while wearing a tool belt, I finally gave in and purchased my first set of overalls. First impression: they're actually pretty comfortable and they have lots of pockets.
That is all.
43 Comments
bigfish@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 73 pts · 129d
I thought this was leading to suspenders. Also very comfortable, and keep your pants up.
weimaraner_of_doom@piefed.social · 19 pts · 129d
Suspenders were on the table. Went with overalls because I don't need them often and they're cheaper to replace than jeans.
nocturne@slrpnk.net · 18 pts · 129d
I wish pants still came with buttons for braces.
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net · 17 pts · 129d
Good news, buttons are super easy to sew on yourself.
EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 129d
Or use bachelor buttons. I install them with an ice pick to punch a hole in the denim then a pair of channel locks.
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 129d
Do you use the rivet kind or the screw kind?
EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 129d
They look like rivets when installed. There is a tack and the button part has a plastic female side that grips on.
Looks just like the main jeans button
Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio · 6 pts · 129d
Mine clip right on! I can wear em with shorts lol.
slazer2au@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 129d
Cargo shorts/trousers. People joke but the pocket options are amazing
Creepo@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 129d
Love the idea, hate the contents smacking my knees
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 129d
Cargo trousers made me chuckle.
Business cargoes
EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 129d
Pantelons d'cargeaux
porcelainpitcher@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 129d
Where you keep your escargot
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 128d
My ass car go where?
porcelainpitcher@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 126d
Well I'm sure I don't know. But you better park it!
muffedtrims@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 129d
Formal cargoes
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 129d
Someday I'll be rich enough to make a tailor make that for me, a black tie fishing getup, with cargo pants and a waistcoat with pockets from shoulder to waist.
The flaps shall be secured with your finest of velcros, my good man, mmmm? hawhehawhehaw. Now I shall be off to the haberdashery for a bucket hat to match.
hoch@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 129d
My fraternity in college made me burn all of my cargo shorts
FrChazzz@lemmus.org · 2 pts · 128d
Guyabera shirt. Stylish. Extra pockets.
Subtracty@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 129d
I'm always climbing in and out of trucks and heavy equipment and could never find reliable pants that realiably prevented plumbers crack without hiking them up all the time. Overalls are the shit. Comfortable and practical.
Iconoclast@feddit.uk · 17 pts · 129d
I often see old people walking with their hands behind their back, and I'm sure this too is some kind of realization of a walking style that takes 70 years to fully appreciate the superiority of.
BlindFrog@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 128d
It's also to help your spine from regressing into fetal form
zipsglacier@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 129d
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 129d
Don't you guys have workpants or vests with pockets and loops that allow you to carry way too much stuff around?
PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 129d
Love overalls and use them often. I also have a couple sets of suspenders that work very well with normal trousers. Big fan of suspenders.
mushroommunk@lemmy.today · 12 pts · 129d
Woodworking apron is even better. Pockets? Check. Easy to take off? Check. Sturdy? Check. Make you look cool? Double check
ripcord@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 129d
It's really hot when my wife wears just overalls
FrChazzz@lemmus.org · 7 pts · 128d
I'm sure it is.
I mean, one has to assume that the lack of extra layers is due to high temperatures. Otherwise she'd be uncomfortable.
PartyAt15thAndSummit@lemmy.zip · -2 pts · 128d
pics pls
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone · 10 pts · 129d
I wore overalls for years,
One day I really had to take a shit and struggled to get out of my overalls.
Long story short I shit all over the toilet as I was sitting down it had taken me to long to get out of them due to my shoulders
etchinghillside@reddthat.com · 10 pts · 129d
Please consult us first before you cut the legs off for Summer.
porcelainpitcher@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 129d
Lederhosen! Those crafty Germans!
PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 129d
I use suspenders with cargo shorts! Best of both worlds for summer!
null@lemmy.org · 10 pts · 129d
Suspenders, my guy.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 129d
I have memories of stuff falling down in the gap where your arms go through because they’re not exactly snug against the hips. But my work tends to be dirty.
I just wear work pants. Suspenders are my next move.
bluGill@fedia.io · 6 pts · 129d
Suspenders are great for tool belts - the waist is not near as good as the shoulders at carrying weight. The head is even better but that is for much larger loads and probably doesn't apply to what you are doing.
redlemace@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 129d
I love these. The only type i buy these last years
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 129d
Proper tradie with those. Just missing the reflective bands.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 6 pts · 129d
Does your tool belt not have shoulder straps?
That's the key - let the belt be loose around the waist and use the shoulder straps to keep it up.
blarghly@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 129d
Do you not wear a regular belt to keep your pants up? I actually found a bit of paracord works well, since there is no buckle to punch your gut when you bend over weird. I use a riff on a truckers hitch - bowline on one end, pass through with the other, tighten, then lock with a slippery half hitch.
YellowParenti@lemmy.wtf · 3 pts · 129d
I remember when I was broke and going to any religious meeting for the pizza/donuts, i used a rolling hitch on some random rope I found. The lack of buckle definitely makes it comfortable.
weimaraner_of_doom@piefed.social · 2 pts · 129d
I do but the performance of a belt is heavily dependent on whats below it being wider than what's above it. 🤷♂️
blarghly@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 129d
Sounds like you need to do more deads 🍑
weimaraner_of_doom@piefed.social · 1 pts · 128d
Can't argue with that.