what do you wear while homesteading?

Jeans, teeshirt and crocs - it's an international uniform! I wear wellies instead of crocs when mucking out the goats. In winter it's jeans, long-sleeved teeshirt and large woolly jumper. I do try and remember to get changed before going out. I was reading a book recently in which a homesteading lady kept up standards of dress by telling herself that 'good enough is not good enough' for when she goes out. It struck a chord!

DH wears 8" leather steel toe boots, his work uniform, and a billed hat. Only time he wears shorts and tshirt is to play golf. For lounging in the house, he wears these really ugly pj pants and a pair of navy Crocs.

Me, my standard outfit is a pair of elastic waist jeans, a tank top with the built in bra, a light cotton long sleeve front button blouse to wear like a jacket with sleeves rolled up, and my beat up old sandals. Dress up, I change sandals.

Carhartt's or jeans -- my mother got me a pair of women's Carhartt jeans for my birthday this year (they were on a very good sale), and I really like the way they fit, and how sturdy they are. Problem is, I'm losing weight, and by this fall they probably won't fit anymore. (Anyone want to trade a pair of size 18P for a pair of size 16P?!?)

I wear t-shirts in the summer, long-sleeved shirts in cooler weather, and various layers in the winter. I have an oiled canvas hat, insulated, with ear-flaps, that I wear when it's raining or cool out (I LOVE that hat!). Straw hat when it's hot and sunny.

Shoes most of the time in warm weather are plastic garden clogs, as I can slip them on and off quickly and leave them on the porch or in the garage and not track dirt into the house. In wet weather I wear rubber barn boots; when it's snowy and cold out I wear Sorels.

Kathleen

ETA: I put on clean clothes to go to town, but it's usually jeans and a top, and a pair of leather clogs instead of the garden clogs. Church and work (church secretary) I wear dresses.

I wear baggy/stiff old jeans and long sleeve denim type shirts, baggy also, plus boots and cap when outside doing any kind of yard/tree/clearing stuff. Better protection against mosquitos/yellow jackets/snakes etc. The bagginess helps if a yellow jacket tries to sting. Even though it's hot as heck here. Piddling around, shorts and t's usually. I like my sandals, but unless it's a trip to the store, the fire ants keep me from wearing them outside while working.

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jeans or sweatpants without the elastic on the bottoms. Denim shorts in the summer. T shirts all of the time unless we go to town--seem to catch buttons on everything and crocs or work boots. Sometimes I wear the work boot with shorts in the summer--steel toes cows can't hurt my toes as bad! What does a bullsnake look like? We found a 4 ft long skin in the back pasture and my brother said "it's a bullsnake" Haven't seen it and we have owned this place over a year. I personally don't want to see it I hate snakes!

Spatterdashes and a tube top.

straw hat or no hat, no shirt, jeans with stupenders shoes, socks.Wintertime. flap cap or locomotive cap, long sleeve shirt, overhalls, shoes, socks

It all depends on what I am doing. During the day Hat, t shirt, jeans, gun, and diabetic shoes. At night I have been found to be out in my skivies, gun,and shoes. I never am barefooted because I can't feel my feet. Out where I live you always go armed.

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Yea,I kinda already figured you lived in a rough neighborhood,when I seen skivies and gun in the same sentence.Thats a dead give away,you either expecting something bad to happen or if it does happen,,it wont be happening to YOU. lol Eddie Buck

My nearest neighbor is 1 mile away one way and 2 miles away the other. The road during the off season has 3 cars per day along it and one of them is a mailman. The only thing that would happen is that some animal could wander up and set my dogs to barking. Don't have many people around.

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Some days I wander out side in the jammies, and don't come back in. Usally the baggiest thing I can find. In the summer I rarley wear shoes. Sunblock jell and my garden hat. Goldbond powder when I start to sweat, get rashes. In the winter- carharts, skecher lumberjack boots, polarfleece and a handmade flaphat.

I am so glad someone asked this question. With the big movement toward more sustainable fabrics I am liking many synthetics like polar fleece and Dry tech material because they don.t stain like cotton and virtually spin dry from the washing machine. they also give that extra stretch making it much more comfortable doing some of the rough chores homesteading requires. Any feedback?

I absolutely love to plant in freshly tilled soil with bare feet - one of life's little pleasures. I have relegated my linen capris to gardening attire. They are very cool, and that one little layer of fabric is all the cushion I need to protect my knees. Besides that, since I retired, I don't need them for work any longer, so this is a perfect way to use them in my opinion. As far as a shirt goes, anything comfortable that I won't mind getting stained.

Around these parts, it's common at anyone's homeplace to see trousers with the cuffs tucked into the socks or boots to keep the ticks out of the private parts. Them little bas&*@ds the size of a pin head will put a hurt'in on ya and it's always to late when ya find out. Winter time is easy. Muck boots, old favorite coat maybe Carhart or Berne or whatever.
Someday I'm moving back to the beach in a foreign country with a pair f sandals and a t-shirt

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Aren't we all....I too do early morning chores (feeding watering birds, dogs, cats, do laundry,etc) in my night gown. Then I shower and get ready for work in town. Come home and change into the same old jeans and t's or tanks for night time chores. Gotta wear that big sun hat while mowing and gardening, but it kinda scares the horses. Winter time i just layer and layer, don't give a hoot how I look. Luckily my neighbors all live far enough away they can't see me.
Funniest thing of all, is running outside in the middle of the night, in the snow or pouring rain in my night gown with a shot gun! What a sight. But its always like that when I hear the birds in trouble outside. And no one is around to see me anyway.
Oh, and I NEVER go barefoot or wear flip flops. I would have no toes left, not to mention the duck and goose poop.
I love it out here! Mary.

If I am out gardening at 6am right after my DH has left for work, I am out there in my pajamas...neighbors are still upset that a non local moved in next door, so I figure I will just roll with it

But, for normal gardening, it's jeans and t shirt for me. I must have tennies or wellies on because the fire ants will eat you alive if you even think of wearing flip flops (thongs?).

LOL! You sure you don't live near me? Guns around here are carried like car keys...

During the summer, it is always shorts & a tank top, and I have a great pair of lowtop Muck boots I live in. During really hot weather I'll add a pair of those little socks to make my Mucks not so sweaty. Only bare feet in the house 'cause that's the rule - no shoes in the house I'd love to do the bare foot thing outside, but too many sharp things - branches, gravel, bees etc. Sandals not good with bees here - you can scoop them up when walking in flipflops or open sandals.
I feed animals in the morning in jammies too - doesn't everyone? Then shower and change for the town job.

Speaking of bees, for some reason, if I try and wear capri's when the weather might not be too hot, bees fly up the legs. I ended up getting stung the only times I tried wearing them. And ended up in our shop taking them off because a wasp flew up the leg and was stinging the back of my thigh. Ouch!! So back to shorts. I've never been stung in shorts yet. Don't know why the bees love capri's, but they can have them from now on.

I, like most of you, have the three wardrobes - town/work; errand/inside; farm work stuff. You start with your 'good clothes' and as those get ripped, stained, worn they become the inside clothes and then as they get worse they become the outside clothes. No way can I wear what I wear around the farm in to town even for errands. And I hate seeing a car come up the hill for a visit - I always have to look down to see if what I am wearing is presentable. I've been known to wave and then dash for the house and by the time visitors are getting out of their cars I have done a quick change.

I thought about making some shorts or pants with elastic waists but have you checked out fabric prices lately? You can buy thrift stuff much cheaper.

CindyOR