No outfit says you're not afraid to get down and dirty better than a pair of overalls. Tough, functional, and sturdy, they've been the working man's uniform for the better part of the last century. With the popularity of vintage american work clothes on the rise, it makes sense that new versions of classic overalls are popping up in the fashion world. Here's some of my favorite images, old and new.
Lady railroad workers in the lunchroom. Photo by Jack Delano, Iowa, 1943.
Women in overalls. Photo from Special Collections, UC Riverside.
Model in overalls from Life magazine. Photos by Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1944.
Women sewing denim overalls in the Lee Work Clothes factory. Photo © Minnesota Historical Society/CORBIS.
Women welders on the way to work at the Todd Erie Basin drydock . Photo for the Office of War Information, 1943.
Lady railroad workers. Photo by J.E. Stimson.
Fast forward...supermodels in uniform. Photo by Peter Lindberg for Vogue, September 1991.
YSL Fall09. Plain front leather overalls. Kind of looks like a fly-fishing outfit or something you would wear when gutting fish on the deck of a boat. Either way, I quite like them for their strange mix of sexy-yet utilitarian.
Christy Turlington for YSL.
Chloe in some leatheralls...this photo was tagged "oh honey no." I say, you go girl.
Love to you, overalls.
Jack White and the best bass drum I've seen in a while.
Giant cotton ball drumsticks.
Alison Mosshart with her square guitar. I don't know anything at all about guitars but this one is square and therefore weird, but cool.
This guy Pete the Banjo takes cool photos, his fliker is HERE.
I love this photo and what they are doing here. This is Canedicoda for White Homme, photo from Diane Pernet's site. Canedicoda does some crazy whacky print things that you can check out here.
Apparently, you don't have to be 5 or work for NASA to think space is cool anymore...cosmic-prints are turning up all over the place. So look forward to some bags lined in space prints from the pillowcase archive...if your bags are a messy as mine, you really will be looking into the bottomless pit of the galaxy or a black hole every time you look for some gum in your purse.
Who doesn't like some shiny red lips? I've obviously been into them lately as seen here and here. I quite like the idea of putting my makeup in a bag that looks like lips.
LuLu Guiness designs some bodacious lips bags a seen below, but to be honest, I really hate making hard bags with cardboard or whatever in them. I want my lips to be soft and pillowy and fun to make. 
I've been putting off reopening my online store, but I guess I gotta stop avoiding it forever. I got better things to do sometimes then sewing leather pieces into mouths, you now? Anyways, aiming to reopen after this weekend or next week...does anyone else care about lips bags? Email me if you're interested in anything specific in the store. I've had a lot of people asking about the laptop bags, when I can get my shit together a little more maybe I'll make some of those...
