What do you wear when working on shite

[DodgeRover]

Panoply bib and brace with knee pads, saves my arse hanging out and being mobbed by hoards of milfs*

 

My uncle was proper old school would never work on anything in less than a shirt and tie worn under a brown lab coat type smock.

[AlabamaShrimp]

[Louise2cv]

I always start any job by "just having a look" in my best clothes, get carried away and live to regret it.

 

I don't have any nice things as a consequence.

[UmBongo]

Linen shirt, white chinos, beige espadrilles and definitely no socks.

[cpjitservices]

I like the idea of having knee pads......

 

No one fancy knocking up some autoshite branded overalls?

 

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Even better than kneepads? Old Headrests - AS branded of course

[gordonbennet]

Blue boiler suits, been meaning to get some knee pads for a long time.

 

Never known anyone get as filthy dirty as me when working on cars, changed all the transmission fluids on the Landcruiser friday, altogether about 4 gallons of oil i suppose including the autobox, reckon me overalls must have soaked up at least a bloody gallon that.

[somewhatfoolish]

Overalls that came free with a subscription to Practical Classic years ago. The only tip I'd give is to throw away anything if you spill gearbox oil on it, the stench never comes out. Plus Lidl steel toecap boots which are surprisingly good for £14.99.

I can confirm this; due to dunderheadedness I took a shower in gear oil at work

 and despite putting what was a new t-shirt through a dozen hot washes it still reeked. Binned along with the overalls I was wearing.

[Kiltox]

Have a look on eBay for new old stock manufacturer overalls - I used to wear some from a Renault Trucks workshop which were so much better than what you'd buy for the same kind of money.

[DodgeRover]

Anything brand "Hard Yakka" workwear from Australia is made of the same stuff as cockroaches they literally never wear out. If I could find some in the UK I would pay whatever it costs

[beko1987]

I also now keep a dirty coat in the car, the Xantia got me into that habit! That way should the worse happen I won't ruin a good shirt

 

My shitty jeans were once my really good jeans, then as Louise has said earlier I forgot I was wearing them...

[bub2006]

I wear scruffy t shirt and jeans. Issue I have is I don't get changed before working on cars as its sort of spontaneous so I've currently got more knackered jeans and t shirts than decent clobber

[dollywobbler]

I always start any job by "just having a look" in my best clothes, get carried away and live to regret it.

 

I don't have any nice things as a consequence.

 

I was about to say exactly the same thing! I ruin a lot of trousers...

[Dave_Q]

I wear blue overalls from army surplus, think they may be ex-plod. Were about £12 from Anchor army surplus in Nottm. They're ace, had the same pair for years but never seem to wear out or get holes (much).

 

Teamed with a set of £12.99 Shoe Zone steel toecaps that I bought for work but were too uncomfortable to stand up in all day.

 

I try to always suit up after many times thinking that a job would be quick/clean then somehow* within 20 seconds being up to my ears in grease in a "good" t-shirt.

 

One thing I need to have a think about is some head protection, I seem to always end up doing under the car jobs and getting a head full of dust/grit/etc. I don't have any hair as such, but still, cleaning my bonce when I get back in is a pain.

[DeeJay]

If I'm going on my back under the car, any old work pants with zips on the pockets (fed up of loosing contents of pockets), old t-shirt and fleece and wooly hat. 

[Kiltox]

Long sleeve t shirts are a godsend - Asda sell them for about £5

[HillmanImp]

My old overalls that I stole when I left Stagecoach in Worthing and a gas mask I stole when I left the Army where I was in the S.A.S*

 

 

 

*Saturdays and Sundays.

 

10 internet points for anyone that can identify the type of car I was working on from the seat on the floor behind....

[AlabamaShrimp]

Long sleeve t shirts are a godsend - Asda sell them for about £5

Do you wear a normal t-shirt over the top and orange rubber gloves?

[richardmorris]

Usually my best white shirt. You'd think I'd learn but no.

[beko1987]

I've turned into my grandad too I've noticed... Even minor planned jobs see me change into the working clothes. My grandad gets changed just to go up the garden!

 

I should probably get some long sleeve shirts, jobs recently are deep down and my arms get filthy.

 

Infact I wore my shitter shorts at shitefest for working on the bx, which was handy taking the fuel pipe for a drive as I could rest it on my leg and not ghostys velour! Then I slept in them and forgot to change until Saturday evening...

[Kiltox]

Do you wear a normal t-shirt over the top and orange rubber gloves?

Heh. I'm much more Brewer when it comes to skill but I can talk a good game

 

Worked in a dusty dirty horrible old barn for 3 years, you get tired of picking stuff out of your arms

[fordperv]

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we need a chap with a large beer belly to recreate this picture

[dean36014]

I've a huge stockpile of old work uniforms to wear. get given new every year so the old ones get relegated to work wear. For some reason the polo nshirts are near indestructible.

[mercrocker]

There is only one way to do this....

 

 

[I_am_Diesel]

Usually my old DAF Trucks main dealer coveralls although I have been considering a Dickies bib & brace.

[Uncle Jimmy]

Didn't realise David Hockney was a Fiat enthusiast.

[Lord Sterling]

I've been actively looking for a "Don Johnson" style "Miami Vice" white suit as an alternative to my cravat/Rupert the bear trousers get-up. So if anyone has one left over from the 80s going spare, let me know. I've plenty of T-shirts and a pair of actual 1908s Raybans to go with said suit.

 

Yes, I am being serious as well.

[mercrocker]

Didn't realise David Hockney was a Fiat enthusiast.

 

He wasn't......he hated the yellow bastard.

[richardthestag]

Mole Valley Farmers provides me with work trousers, fleeces and steel cap boots.

 

No Bull stuff like this is perfect and easily lasted the winter

http://www.molevalleyfarmers.com/mvf/store/products/no-bull-mens-bedford-padded-shirt-blue

 

Might need another by November

 

T-Shirts are supplied from a stock that Mrs Thestag doesn't approve of. they get recycled through work wear before rags, then lighting bonfires 

 

Have a leather welding apron because one blob of weld in your joy deptartment is one too many and I have been there. Also useful for bbq activity much to Mrs Thestags disgust in front of her posh* friends

 

*Mrs thestag has no posh friends but one is nicknamed Margot - re The Good Life

 

[jonny69]

Depends on the job but normally just a thong and flip flops. No point ruining good clothes.

[sierraman]

I've been actively looking for a "Don Johnson" style "Miami Vice" white suit as an alternative to my cravat/Rupert the bear trousers get-up. So if anyone has one left over from the 80s going spare, let me know. I've plenty of T-shirts and a pair of actual 1908s Raybans to go with said suit.

 

Yes, I am being serious as well.

I had a white linen suit a few years ago, someone called me a wanker in a local pub so I binned it the next day. It was no good for going out in, lager showed up really badly on it as for that matter if you got the base of the trousers caught on some piss in the gents.

 

I'd not bother to be honest chances are in this day and age you've got some right phillistines in the local area that won't understand what you are trying to do.