Winter in New England #7: Red-neck Yankee garb

This is #7 in our series. Previous posts here -

#6: Hand and Foot warmers
#5: Do you need snow tires?
#4 Layers
#3 Wood and pellet stoves
#2 Jump Starters
#1 Oil lamps and lanterns

Red-neck Yankees wear fuzz-lined overshirts (like the one in the photo, from Moose Creek) most of the year. Few things are more comfortable, and you don't care what happens to them. They keep you cozy at 5 degrees and at 45 degrees.

In fact, they look better and feel softer with some dirt and grease on them, and a small tear or two. Only a metrosexual would wash them more than once a year. If you want to go a bit upscale from that sort of thing, these are always acceptable (even though they are from LL Bean).

They are made with quilted linings like this for colder weather.

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New England's a big place. Where do you suppose such attire is most common?

#1 Mister Snitch (Link) on 2008-04-12 12:45 (Reply)

Mostly in my community, but sometimes I travel...

#1.1 Jephnol on 2008-04-12 13:18 (Reply)

In all them small towns where desperate citizens carry guns and go to church.

#2 BD on 2008-04-12 14:59 (Reply)

Wish I had mine with me today! Working on the stone wall and freezing my behind off.

#3 The Dylanologist on 2008-04-13 12:09 (Reply)

Work gloves and fleece-lined shirt.

#3.1 BD on 2008-04-13 19:21 (Reply)

Nice they are, indeed, but they do little or nothing to warm one's behind. I just unloaded one quilted and one heavy but non-lined one. They were too worn to be warm any longer. Great for days of medium cold when one is active (provided it ain't all that windy).

#3.2 Knucklehead (Link) on 2008-12-02 19:44 (Reply)

Greetings from clammy Puget Sound. OK, let's open the deliberately unfashionable suburban - as opposed to yuppified Seattleite - Pacific Northwestern closet here... short Carhartt jacket - check (made in USA, still, which is amazing), longer Carhartt jacket with hood (also made in America), Filson wool vest (which cooks you alive when it is over about 40F but is great when really cold), ancient black Pendleton wool jacket I've had forever (also made in USA, in Pendelton OR, from the days when they still made their clothing here), Carhartt bibs for wandering through the blackberry bushes down in the gully with my Woodsman's Pal... etc.

And no, no washing unless they stand up of their own accord when in the laundry bag. If it were up to me. Sometimes the choice to wash them is made for me, furtively, when I'm preoccupied with other things.

#4 Skookumchuk (Link) on 2008-12-02 12:58 (Reply)

Johnson Woolen Mill, Johnson VT , bye the Jes-sus, is where many self-respecting Vermontahs, i.e., those who voted McPalin, purchase such a key outer garment. LL Bean is for flatlandahs, them metrosexuals/ VT Obama voters, and other furreners!

#5 greenmtnpunter on 2008-12-02 17:04 (Reply)

Ah for the good old days around Puget Sound. When men were men and the sheep were scared. Sorry, that's Montana. When the women were women and the geoducks were..

But that was all before the dark times. Californians. Microsoft. Starbucks. When wearing waffle stompers and a flannel shirt downtown didn't get one pestered for directions by a "metrosexual" trying to find the "Park Bench" or YMCA.

#6 commander clopfelter (Link) on 2008-12-02 17:06 (Reply)

P.S. There ain't many of us McPalin voters here either, only 1/3 the vote went for the good guys, can you imagine that? And still the 2/3 "Me-Too's" scream for more diversity. Now the pols tell us that Obama will bail out the state budget 'cause we delivered 2/3 the vote of VT and 3 whopping electoral votes. If Obama doesn't send us a dime they'll still vote for him in 2012, these guys are dreaming.

#7 greenmtnpunter on 2008-12-02 17:14 (Reply)

We wear then down here in central Florida, too. Man, when it gets down below 50, why that's downright cold!! 'Fact, we'll probably see some frost here by tomorrow morning.

#8 JimK on 2008-12-02 17:36 (Reply)

Red Duofold Union Suit, applied just prior to Thanksgiving weekend; removed, with luck, by Good Friday. Washed only if the ice breaks while on it.

#9 The Distributist on 2008-12-02 17:52 (Reply)

Oh yeah - then there is the Filson Guide Sweater, which is akin to wearing medieval chain mail, only warmer and made of wool. If you team it up with those waxed Tin Cloth pants you'll walk around like Jack Haley in the Wizard of Oz.

That sweater sure cuts the wind whistling down from the San Juan Islands though - like today.

#10 Skookumchuk (Link) on 2008-12-02 19:35 (Reply)

But Filson has gotten tres expensivo he said in pidgin Esperanto. There don't seem to be places that make really good stuff here in Merrica at a reasonable price. Except maybe Kevin's and Stafford's in Thomasville GA, where both make decent pants for relatively cheap if you look for them among their more expensive stuff. Pointer and Diamond Gusset jeans too. Shirts are tough.

#11 Skookumchuk (Link) on 2008-12-02 21:01 (Reply)

Gosh, I wore that L.L. Bean shirt 30 years ago while attending college in the wilderness of the Berkshires. How little things change. Reassuring, actually.

#12 Jim on 2008-12-03 02:05 (Reply)

And there is the classic Woolrich red plaid hunting jacket, if you bought one twenty years ago when they were made in USA and made to last.

Now they are all made in China, are junk, and nobody buys them anymore. I guess making them in USA was too expensive to sell in the volume market, so they cheapened them to the point that nobody buys them anyway. Might have been better to keep making them here, doing it right, and settling for fewer sales.

It's amazing how many clothes in my closet were made in USA, that tells you how old they all are.

#13 Seppo on 2008-12-03 14:35 (Reply)

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Winter in New England #7: Red-neck Yankee garb