Herb Ritts’ famous photograph of Mick Jagger in overalls. Bib overalls became the uniform of the working stiff, their baggy silhouette serving as an emblem of Depression-era farmers. Later, they ...

A century ago, Osh Kosh B’Gosh produced its first pair of denim overalls, so named because farmers and railroad workers would put them on over their regular clothing. The bib overalls ...

A farmer of Franklin County, Kansas, ca. 1936. A young farmer enjoys a cigarette, ca. 1938. A North Carolina sharecropper and tenant farmer, ca. 1935. Children of an Arkansas tenant farmer, ca. 1935.

While bib overalls are still very popular with painters, farmers, mechanics and carpenters, they have moved a long way from their original stigma. Today they can be purchased almost anywhere.

None exist. “Plus, there are no farmers clad in bib overalls present, who like to take a little time off from chores, to converse with friends and neighbors out there under the open skies ...

In the latter category, the uniform of farmers and fishermen alike, are overalls. The bib-style overalls we’re familiar with today date back to the 1800s, with roots a far cry from their ...