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Workwear Ramblings by John the Panelbeater 2009-06-22
Thoughts on utility /workwear.
Just a bit of an observation on utility /work wear that has rightly found its way out of the fields and factories and into our wardrobes. Our hosts here at The Original Store have a couple of American classics in Dickies (love those work pants) and Redwing, elsewhere you'll find the evergreen Carhartt.
What these and numerous other brands have in common is that they are functional,
hard wearing, good looking clothes designed for grafting in but which have been adapted and adopted by people round the world to fit in with their own lifestyles and fashion senses. http://www.dickies.net/ricky-powell/
Elsewhere, in the world of high fashion, we have a different kind of "work wear", jackets, pants and shirts with price tags way beyond the people whose clothing it seeks to emulate, check out this little lot, no change from a grand here. http://www.adamkimmel.com/lookbook/fall-winter-2008
It's not that my problem is all about the price, it's not, some of these clothes are exceptionally well made and will command big money but as somebody who gets grease under his finger nails don't tell me it's work wear.
Nearly finished but just had a thought about Belstaff, I got my first jacket in 1982 to keep me dry on my Lambretta, had the pants as well. Now here's something that started off as "real" utility wear for everyone who needed it and has ended up reborn in the "fashion utility"section with the relevant price tag and buyers, it is now owned I believe by the Prada group and no longer available in your local motorcycle shop.
In a bit,
John P
