OT: Short-sleeved jumpsuits, like Grandpa used to wear
My newest, favoritist website in the whole world is myjumpsuit.com! I love me some short-sleeved coveralls, the kind like all our Grandpas used to wear, with a built-in belt, and maybe an emblem with a bass or something on the pocket; and I was looking forward to wearing them when I got older (like now); then sometime when I wasn't looking, they quit making them! Dammit! Except for this website.
I hear tell there also might be some places left in Louisiana where you can still buy them. Is that true, my Cajun friends? 3 years ago I meant a fine gentlemen in his 80's named Joe Guillbeau, originally from Scott. He was wearing a green and white seersucker jumpsuit that I would have been proud to wear to the White House. To me, that's the epitome of elegant fashion!
So if your Great Uncle Leon left you a closet full of these, there's a guy up here in Arkansas that will be glad to take them off your hands . . .
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Daddy always had a Sunday jump suit he reserved to go to Mass, and "casual" ones he wore during the week. Those were the days, my friend. We thought they'd never end!
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Ain't that the truth, Neal? So many things I liked about the "old days"; there were a lot of things I took for granted and counted on that just ain't there anymore. Bring back the 70's!
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There's a place in Thibodaux that Tysman was telling me about that still sells the old fashioned ones with belt buckles and all. I haven't been there but it sounds like it warrants a road trip soon.
Johnny's Men's Shop is the name. No website but maybe you can give em a call.
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That's funny! As far as I remember I never saw one in Europe. I can assure you, though being a grampa myself, that I never wore one. The only ones to wear these peculiar outfits must have been the American paratroopers in WW2, and then with long sleeves. Looks very practical, but I would go for the old fashioned American overall (combined with a white shirt and bowtie on sundays)
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Thanks, John D.! Jerry Moody was on it like a chicken on a junebug, and told me about Johnny's right away; in fact, he called me from there, and put me on with a sales lady from his phone - what a guy!
Of course, I should have known Jerry would know where the all the cranky old farts shop, wink/grin.
@Nedro: no worries - I'll never shuck my old coveralls (well, sometimes, for skinny-dipping and other recreational pursuits . . . but you know what I mean). In fact, I just sent some that were getting old and thin to a seamstress today to get patched and hemmed into shorts. I ain't one to quit on a good garment just because of a little age.
@TJ: I guess I like a lot of things that were made for an earlier generation. Maybe because I was half-raised by my Grandpa, a farmer born in '03. Those were some damm good people back then!