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Farmgirl Fashion:  what do you wear when you are working outside?  |
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prairie_princess
True Blue Farmgirl
613 Posts
Elizabeth
Carpenter
WY
USA
613 Posts |
 Posted - Sep 01 2009 : 07:28:34 AM
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gosh, i swear i must look afright when i'm outside in the garden, chicken coop, or yard working! i have my separate pile of clothes to work in, mostly coveralls i got while in the navy (they are fabulous work clothes!). my other clothes are mostly older, worn-out clothes. i'm always wearing my trusty, brown snowboots (i love them!) and my sunhat. but i'm not at all fashionable!
maryjane always looks beautiful in her working clothes, with her cute aprons and such.... do you take the time to look cute when you work outside? or are you like me, just throw on whatever is handy so you can get dirty?
"Only two things that money can't buy, that's true love and homegrown tomatoes."
- Guy Clark
"The man who has planted a garden feels he has done something for the good of the world."
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Miss Bee Haven
True Blue Farmgirl
4331 Posts
Janice
Louisville/Irvington
Kentucky
USA
4331 Posts |
Posted - Sep 01 2009 : 08:14:18 AM
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This spring, I was lucky enough to find two pairs of overalls in thrift stores. They have been my uniform this summer. I love to find pocket tees to wear with them, so I can change from my regular glasses to sunglasses and have a pocket to stuff the other pair in.
Farmgirl Sister #50
"If you think you've got it nailed down, then what's all that around it?"
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nubidane
True Blue Farmgirl
3015 Posts
Lisa
Georgetown
OH
3015 Posts |
Posted - Sep 01 2009 : 09:27:33 AM
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| & gals, let me tell ya, fashion is the WORD when to comes to Janice's glasses! FAB! |
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Miss Bee Haven
True Blue Farmgirl
4331 Posts
Janice
Louisville/Irvington
Kentucky
USA
4331 Posts |
Posted - Sep 01 2009 : 09:35:50 AM
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LOL! Thanks, Lisa! You should see my tractor driving goggles!! HAHA Found them on clearance in the kids section of Lencrafters! So chic!!!! But they have stretchy velcro tabs from the stems that keep them in place when I drive too fast and bounce all over!
Farmgirl Sister #50
"If you think you've got it nailed down, then what's all that around it?"
'Br.Dave Gardner' |
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DivaHick
Farmgirl in Training
26 Posts
Megan
Alliance
OH
USA
26 Posts |
Posted - Sep 02 2009 : 06:44:05 AM
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Does anyone know where to buy plus size overalls? I would love a pair, but they seem to stop a size below me.
In a prefect world, I would wear muck boots with a pretty design, overalls, colorful t-shirts, a big floppy hat and colorful print gloves, all topped with a pretty apron which I made. In this world, I wear beat up, paint spattered, old jeans, plain black muck boots or pink crocs that the dog chewed up, tan leather gloves, and a baseball hat, (Hat is pink with rhinestones though, so it makes everything ok), and the apron is in pieces on the sewing table. 
Yes I play the spoons, but I do it with perfectly manicured nails... |
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Hosanna
True Blue Farmgirl
466 Posts
Hosanna
Alton
Virginia
466 Posts |
Posted - Sep 02 2009 : 08:01:32 AM
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I have a separate drawer of work clothes, too. For most of my horse work I have to look "work professional," so if I am having people to the barn, I usually wear neat, clean jeans, polo shirt, belt, and work boots or riding boots. Or, riding breeches and tall boots; but not often. If I am going to be at the horse barn w/o people and just doing work by myself, I wear whatever grungy jeans or shorts, tee-shirt, tank top, or sleeveless blouse, and boots. At home in the yard or whatever, I'll often wear a sun dress, even for chores. Now, during the winter, it's long johns, Carhart pants, and lots of layers on top with my Aussie chore coat and a cozy hat! I want one of those swell pairs of floral print Wellies in the Victorian Trading Co. Catalog..... I will have to ask "Santa" (Hubby) for them at Christmas!!
www.happilyeverafterhosanna.blogspot.com
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deeredawn
True Blue Farmgirl
2306 Posts
Dawn
Cordova
TN
USA
2306 Posts |
Posted - Sep 02 2009 : 08:32:24 AM
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Megan, my overalls are men's. As a matter of fact, my wranglers are mens too. I hate stretch jeans.
My outdoor attire is jeans/overalls, muck boots, ball cap and a t-shirt. If I'm in the chicken coop, I always have a bandanna to put over my nose & mouth like a bandit. If I'm in the garden there is an apron involved due to whatever I may bring in. Oh, and if I dont have on muck boots I have on yellow garden clogs with lady bugs on them.
Dawn #279
MJ's Heirloom Mavens-QMD
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~I'm rough & tough and I don't wear bloomers~ Nellie Braken 1887 |
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prairie_princess
True Blue Farmgirl
613 Posts
Elizabeth
Carpenter
WY
USA
613 Posts |
Posted - Sep 02 2009 : 09:42:27 AM
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i can't remember the last time i saw overall's in an actual store, beside's mens sizes at ranch type stores... the only place i can ever find them anymore is at thrift stores. that's where the hubs found his that he works in... he loves them!
"Only two things that money can't buy, that's true love and homegrown tomatoes."
- Guy Clark
"The man who has planted a garden feels he has done something for the good of the world."
- Charles Dudley Warner |
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1badmamawolf
True Blue Farmgirl
2199 Posts
Teresa
"Bent Fence Farms"
Ca
USA
2199 Posts |
Posted - Sep 02 2009 : 1:34:35 PM
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Depending on the weather, its either a tank-top and jeans in summer, t-shirt and jeans in spring and fall, sweatshirt and jeans in the winter, and if I'm out working anywhere on the ranch, its boots. If its easy simple stuff its either tennis shoes or flip-flops. Oh, and of course a hat, a straw cowboy hat or a baseball cap and in the winter, a stocking cap. I also do have a few pairs of overalls. Never anything fancy, and most gotten from thrift stores, that way when I rip it, its not a expensive loss, lol.
"Treat the earth well, it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children" |
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Bellepepper
True Blue Farmgirl
1207 Posts
Belle
Coffeyville
KS
USA
1207 Posts |
Posted - Sep 04 2009 : 10:52:56 AM
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I kinda answered this on the gussied up topic. In the winter I wear long johns and sweats or jeans. Lots of layers on the top. stocking cap, ear muffs, gloves, muffler. In the summer, I take off all that is allowed. I am lucky that I don't sunburn but I wear sun protective glasses and a big straw hat.
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5 acre Farmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1007 Posts
~~~*Terri*~~~
WA.
USA
1007 Posts |
Posted - Sep 04 2009 : 7:34:58 PM
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I wear dresses all the time, cotton everything in the summer, and mostly wool in the winter(except for the unders,LOL!)
Farmgirl Sister #368
"It is most common for man to value most what has least worth."
My Farm and Garden blog....
http://blogonthefarmandgarden.blogspot.com
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Roxy7
True Blue Farmgirl
1083 Posts
Robin
Denver
CO
USA
1083 Posts |
Posted - Sep 05 2009 : 08:31:44 AM
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| I am a shorts and t-shirts sort of bum....but my farm is also in the middle of the city and its mostly just garden work. In the cooler months it would he a pair of sweats and a t-shirt with a hoodie. I am all about the casual when working outside. |
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knitnpickinatune
True Blue Farmgirl
1140 Posts
Sherrie
Gardena
California
USA
1140 Posts |
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knitnpickinatune
True Blue Farmgirl
1140 Posts
Sherrie
Gardena
California
USA
1140 Posts |
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FebruaryViolet
True Blue Farmgirl
4810 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4810 Posts |
Posted - Sep 08 2009 : 08:11:16 AM
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I have "outdoor" clothes, too. I usually buy jeans at the thrift to hack around in, and wear those. I always wear my garden clogs, or if digging or mud work, my hunter knee high wader boots. If it's cold, I wear a wool sweater and hand knit hat, and if it's warm, always a tee shirt with, don't laugh, cotton leg warmers on my arms when I weed, or pick beans, because my arms get itchy or the risk of poison ivy. I can take them off when I get too hot, or the job is done. I also have a lot of those wool Pendleton and LL Bean shirt jackets that I wear over a long sleeve tee or thermal when it's cooler.
And I second Janice's "fashion" glasses! They rock!!!
Musings from our family in the Bluegrass http://sweetvioletmae.blogspot.com/ |
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Brenda Kay Groth
True Blue Farmgirl
100 Posts
Brenda
Manton
MIch
USA
100 Posts |
Posted - Sep 16 2009 : 3:32:54 PM
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well i am ashamed to say i don't look at all farmgirl cute when i'm working..in any weather above 45 degrees i'm in shorts and a t shirt..once and awhile a tank top..but my farmer tan proves that it is generally a t shirt..when it is too cold for the shorts i switch to jeans..but 9 times out of 10 it is shorts..
when cold i throw on a fleece jacket
bloom where you are planted |
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Bonnie Ellis
True Blue Farmgirl
2474 Posts
Bonnie
Minneapolis
Minnesota
USA
2474 Posts |
Posted - Sep 17 2009 : 8:55:34 PM
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Working outside in the summer I wear just shorts and a T, but in the winter I wear as many layers as it takes. We can get to 30-40 below zero in Minnesota. When I'm teaching swimming, I wear a bathing suit.
Bonnie Ellis
grandmother and orphan farmgirl |
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Faransgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
895 Posts
Beth
Houston
Texas
USA
895 Posts |
Posted - Sep 29 2009 : 10:52:55 AM
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Summer time finds me mucking stalls etc. in shorts and a tank top with either skater shoes or pink plaid muck boots (depending on the weather). Winter is jeans and t-shirts or sweat-shirts layered as many layers as possible. I have ball-caps, visors and a straw cowboy hat that get changed by whichever one is closest at hand. I want one of Mary Janes hats. The one she is wearing on the last issue of the magazine. I love that hat.
Farmgirl Sister 572
May the force of the horse be with you. |
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chaddsgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
843 Posts
Sarah
Farmgirl Sisterhood #639
MO
USA
843 Posts |
Posted - Sep 29 2009 : 2:35:16 PM
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Overalls. I wear them ALL the TIME when I'm not at work. They are fantastic. It is hard to find them in ladies sizes. I just get them from the farm/ranch stores and buy the smallest mens size I can find.
A person is a success if they get up in the morning and get to bed at night and in between does what they want to do. Bob Dylan |
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Lainey
True Blue Farmgirl
2401 Posts
Elaine
Waco
Kentucky
USA
2401 Posts |
Posted - Oct 08 2009 : 10:04:55 AM
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I've got this green shirt and green pants that I've washed so much the colors don't match and are faded out. In the garden I'll go barefoot or wear my father in law's crocs that he leaves behind. Sometimes I'll wear a baggy shirt and a pair of old jeans. Comfort is what I look for in work clothes. I know I probably look a mess.
Farmgirl Sister #25
http://countrygirldreams.blogspot.com/
An Angel says, 'Never borrow from the future. If you worry about what may happen tomorrow and it doesn't happen, you have worried in vain. Even if it does happen, you have to worry twice.' |
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KayB
True Blue Farmgirl
540 Posts
Kay
Del City
Oklahoma
USA
540 Posts |
Posted - Oct 08 2009 : 10:34:08 AM
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I used to wear my old Army BDUs for yard work, gardening and fishing, but I seem to have outgrown them. Actually, I would work in the altogether and just some shoes if I could get away with it, but I can't. I will probably get some overalls and t-shirts from the thrift store this spring, if I can find any. If not, there's always Tractor Supply or somewhere I can get some.
KayB
Life's a dance you learn as you go |
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Lynner
True Blue Farmgirl
225 Posts
Sheri
Missouri
USA
225 Posts |
Posted - Oct 27 2009 : 04:19:39 AM
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In cold weather, blue jeans, sweat shirts,jacket, gloves and boots. Summer time, capris and tank tops with flip flops,gloves and a cap if necessary. Not just any flip flops though, crocs all the way. I can walk around in them all day, and in winter, as long as it is dry, at least inside, crocs again. Great for my back and legs and so comfy. Recently I bought wool socks. My husband wears them all the time and talks about how wonderful they are. Wow, he is right, they are really great.
Sheri
Many Hands Make Light Work!
...God made the seed to grow...1 Cor 3:6
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Edited by - Lynner on Oct 27 2009 04:20:59 AM |
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magnoliakathy
True Blue Farmgirl
453 Posts
Kathryn
Magnolia
Texas
USA
453 Posts |
Posted - Oct 28 2009 : 07:03:18 AM
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Warm weather: cutoff pants, tee shirts, leather mules with socks, big straw hat.
Cold weather: last year's work pants (stretch knits), long seeves or sweatshirts, ame old mules or rubber boots if needed, denim jacket, baseball cap (Babylon 5). Hardly, anything matches, but I get the work done.
When you free your mind your heart can fly. Farmgirl # 714, |
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Annie S
True Blue Farmgirl
756 Posts
Annie
Custer
S.D.
USA
756 Posts |
Posted - Oct 28 2009 : 11:20:11 AM
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jeans full-time, year-round - just too many things growing up here that a person can get scratched on. Also wear nothing but boots all the time - where I live there is nothing but quarts, slate and rocks all over the place to trip or fall over. Walking in sandals is putting your life at risk. Warm weather it's a t-shirt and cotton cowboy shirt; winter it's long-shelved t-shirt and men's flannel shirts with a sweatshirt on top when I have to go outside and shovel snow - like today. Socks are light-weight in summer and heavy duty in winter. Gets pretty darn cold up here, so need all the heavy duty winter wear one can get. Love Cabela's and Duluth Trading Co. for gear that lasts forever and is of really good quality. Have things that are faded, but still like new.
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Mad Typist
True Blue Farmgirl
55 Posts
Faith
Vermont
55 Posts |
Posted - Nov 01 2009 : 06:59:29 AM
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Around here it's usually jean overalls w/ a T-shirt and/or a hoodie and rainboots or bare feet, depending on the season...
Back to the basics...four chickens, two dogs, one boy and a DH |
Edited by - Mad Typist on Nov 01 2009 07:00:50 AM |
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Beverley
True Blue Farmgirl
2707 Posts
Beverley
atlanta
Michigan
USA
2707 Posts |
Posted - Nov 01 2009 : 7:03:52 PM
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Boy I am so glad I read this thread. I must look a fright to anyone who drives buy and sees me when I am out and working . I grab any ole thing usually jeans and a t-shirt and my mucking boots. I bought my grandkids some mucking boots of their own so when they want to help. Teaching them young!! When they moved to california my daughter said they still wore the mucking boots with shorts and went out to play. hehehehehehe
Folks will know how large your soul is by the way you treat a dog....Charles F. Doran
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Farmgirl Fashion: what do you wear when you are working outside? |
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what do you wear when you are working outside?
