work clothing

[jackyp1234]

Just wondering what work pants you guys use? im sick of paying 60 pound for snickers, wondered if there where any other brands you guys recommend? winters coming so i guess the boiler suit will be coming out soon!

 

[Resolute]

All wear and tear then playing 5 a side footie, i was running ( if you could call it that ) and felt a pop and heard a cracking noise, long story short after 5 hospital appoitments they finally discoverd id ruptured my ACL, other two ops are wear and tear sadly

This exercise lark ain't good for ya!

 

[Guest123]

Sorry but I just can't understand the logic in spending 60 quid on a pair of trousers to wear to work, to get them bogging, filthy, stained and damaged. I'd rather spend that on decent tools, proper safety wear or better still to put deisel in my van. Must be making loads a money to spend that on work trousers! LOL
What's up with a decent pair of overalls?

 

[WaterTight]

I spend £30 on mine. I know you can buy cheaper but the way I see it is work is mostly a pain which you'd rather not be doing. It's stressful, dull, physically demanding and often quite lonesome. I like to take measures to cheer myself up. It's the little things. Having some sweets to suck on while driving, download some interesting podcasts to listen to. Wearing something that I feel I look half decent in is just another thing you can do. Pride in your appearance makes you feel better. If you're properly groomed and looking ok it subtly lifts your mood - just like, conversley, wearing cheap tat makes you feel like cheap tat. We're all vain to some extent, some of us just choose to revel in it. But when I'm 50 I doubt I'll bother. While I'm still a lean, mean, bubbling sex-machine it would be an injustice not to tart myself up a smidge. Just think of the ladies!

 

[quality]

I stopped thinking about the ladies and my appearance a long time ago. although I do wear clean trousers, not sure what make (cause theit in the washer) but they have knee pads. So does that tar me with the trendy brush ?

 

[WaterTight]

Definetly probably not.

When I was in my 20's - a few years back - baggy trousers were in. So I tend to wear them a big baggier. Therefore my knee pads quickly become shin pads and just annoy me as every time I kneel I have to remember to hike up my trousers in a michael-jackson-esque sock-display of funkiness....so I've stopped using the pads and just use a kneeling mat, which I find better now I'm used to it.

 

[Guest123]

I dress smartly for work. My logo is on my work clothes and I always present a professional image and feel good in doing so, but I can't for the life of me justify spending 60 quid on a pair of work trousers!
These are all designer brands, which I have on my civvy gear, so I suspect that being fashionable is the attraction for the work place. A bit like all the new plumbers driving about in brand new vans. It's not what you wear or drive, but how good you are at your job that counts.
Ah well in a few years I'll be going to work in my zimmer frame and driving up the M8 in my battery operated car to replace all that new fangled plastic stuff with good old lead pipe.

 

[WaterTight]

Flash 'arries innit

 

[stokecity]

ive got 2 pairs of dewalt at the monent, ive had them months and they havent got a single hole in yet, they are a little heavier than snickers but no heavier than jeans. before these i had a pair of £70 snickers had them for about 6 weeks when they snagged when i was sliding through a loft hatch and ripped down the gutch, gutted

 

[Phil]

Seventy quid trousers!

For that I would expect the trousers to have studded diamonds in them.

Any advance on £70 anyone? I want to hear from the guy in a hundred quid work pants.....

 

[WaterTight]

He won't be on here. He'll be in Stringfellows.

 

[Resolute]

Does it count if you get bounced into a last minute job (ie round a mates or when the misses shouts cos the sink is blocked) and your in ya best gear? If so, I might then have a pair of £75 jeans on?!

 

[Dannypipe]

Seventy quid trousers!

For that I would expect the trousers to have studded diamonds in them.

Any advance on £70 anyone? I want to hear from the guy in a hundred quid work pants.....

We did have this same topic of conversation in a thread months ago. I remember someone had £100 work trousers. Severall pairs of them. Think it may have been Redsaw??

 

[Koogatubac]

I use blakader work trousers, have the extra pockets etc and i havnt had any stitching come undone yet! Normally snickers come undone, overpriced!

 

[Phil]

We did have this same topic of conversation in a thread months ago. I remember someone had £100 work trousers. Severall pairs of them. Think it may have been Redsaw??

You're right Danny, I do seem to remember such a discussion and it was probably in the back of my mind.

Are you the one Redsaw? :26:

 

[bestrest]

I usually use my used pants that already have some damages.

 

[Phil]

Does anyone ever use the built in tool belts/hammer loops etc on the trousers?

I have trouble keeping them up as it is without extra weight dragging them down.

 

[cr0ft]

I think you need to be umm, a bit wider around the waist for those to work Phil.

 

[Guest123]

A wee tip.... I throw all my stained work clothes into the washing machine with black dylon every now and again and they all come out with the stains hidden/dyed black.
But wear a visibility vest on a dark night! LOL

 

[aaronsmith]

this is true but snickers are ace m8