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.
I thought this was leading to suspenders. Also very comfortable, and keep your pants up.
Suspenders were on the table. Went with overalls because I don’t need them often and they’re cheaper to replace than jeans.
I wish pants still came with buttons for braces.
Good news, buttons are super easy to sew on yourself.
Or use bachelor buttons. I install them with an ice pick to punch a hole in the denim then a pair of channel locks.
Do you use the rivet kind or the screw kind?
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
Mine clip right on! I can wear em with shorts lol.
It’s really hot when my wife wears just overalls
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.
pics pls
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.
It’s also to help your spine from regressing into fetal form
I started doing this! It’s really great for a stroll!
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
Cargo shorts/trousers. People joke but the pocket options are amazing
Love the idea, hate the contents smacking my knees
Cargo trousers made me chuckle.
Business cargoes
Pantelons d’cargeaux
Where you keep your escargot
My ass car go where?
Formal cargoes
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.
Guyabera shirt. Stylish. Extra pockets.
My fraternity in college made me burn all of my cargo shorts
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.
Don’t you guys have workpants or vests with pockets and loops that allow you to carry way too much stuff around?
I love these. The only type i buy these last years
Proper tradie with those. Just missing the reflective bands.
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.
Suspenders, my guy.
Woodworking apron is even better. Pockets? Check. Easy to take off? Check. Sturdy? Check. Make you look cool? Double check
Please consult us first before you cut the legs off for Summer.
Lederhosen! Those crafty Germans!
I use suspenders with cargo shorts! Best of both worlds for summer!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I do but the performance of a belt is heavily dependent on whats below it being wider than what’s above it. 🤷♂️
Sounds like you need to do more deads 🍑
Can’t argue with that.
