based on the thread Do you have any Duluth Trading clothes?
So, anyone here a fan of Carhartt clothing?
I grew up in Oklahoma, and it was considered the some of the best work wear you could get. I still like their Henley Shirts for my goto around the house type T Shirt.
I’ve heard some people complain that since they now do some of their garment work overseas that the quality has gone down, but I haven’t noticed it.
I wear Carhartt scrubs at work; they’re comfortable and I like the pockets.
Yes, I love their clothes (shirts specifically). I have a heavy duty denim button-down shirt that I wear multiple times a week and I am about to buy three more just like it. It pairs well with almost anything and it is durable. I also have dark green button down that I have worn at least weekly for years. It has weathered a little but still looks great.
I have spent the last 44 years on construction sites . I install, program test and inspect commercial fire alarm systems. Before that I was a Journeyman Carpenter. Carhart is my go to brand for jackets, coveralls, and cold weather gear of all kinds.
The quality never lets me down.
I wear a lot of Carhart shirts and really like them. I can wash them and put them into the dryer without shrinking. They do have some lighter weight shirts that just don’t feel like as good of quality. Those may be the shirts people are talking about having inferior quality.
I have a lot of their stuff. Love their shirt-jacs. Kind of pricey but last forever. I have a lot of their tee shirts, they are sized kind of large but they work out well for me. I like my tees thick and heavy and that’s what you get from Carhartt.
I have a small collection of Carhartt gear. I like thier jackets, save the elastic cuffs that I always remove.
I think thier other stuff is a little too expensive so usually only buy it on sale, which is less often than most brands.
For me their biggest issue is everything is largely cotton, as I work with water outside year round that isn’t very usefull. It also means it’s destroyed by chlorine which I work with as well. It does have the benefit of not melting around torches though.
I’ve used some of the hunting clothes; far and away my favorites.
Only Carhartt piece I’ve got is one of their heavy insulated coveralls. Big brass zippers up the legs and front. I call it the sleeping bag you wear. I’ve worked on cars in the winter and worn it in the house on real cold mornings before the heat gets going. I think it cost me about a hundred bucks and I’ve never regretted buying it.
Me too! My gf bought them for me so we would match when we do barn work together in the winter. She’s cute that way.
I must be the only one here that has had bad experiences with Carhartt.
Years ago I after I had basically worn out all my existing jeans and shirts I decided to replace my stock with Carhartt. I ordered two or three pairs of jeans, a jacket, and half a dozen or so shirts from Cabela’s. From day one I wasn’t particularly happy with the pants; they felt flimsy and thin and fit weird. Soon the denim started to fray in the crotch and around the back pockets, and several of the brass rivets failed—something that has never happened in any pair of jeans I have ever owned, even in cheap Wal-Mart jeans. All three pairs wore out within 6 months. The shirts weren’t much better, developing holes in the pits. I wasn’t working as a laborer or anything strenuous, this was just normal wear—weekend wear, actually, since I didn’t wear jeans to work.
I always figured Carhartt was the working man’s version of Nike Air Jordans: expensive, poorly made, and their only selling point was their reputation for being “cool.” Clearly, most people don’t agree. But I wasted several hundred dollars buying Carhartt and received stuff that, in my experience, was worse than bargain-basement Wal-Mart crap. Since then I’ve stuck with Duluth Trading or Cabela’s house brand.
That being said I do know they have different quality standards for different products. I still have the Carhartt jacket that has a “Union Made in the USA” tag on it, and I’ve seen other jackets that are made overseas. So maybe that had something to do with the fact that the stuff I bought failed almost immediately? I dunno.
This was 10 or 12 years ago; based on the comments here I may have to give them another shot one of these days.
The last Carhartt items that I had were back in my dippy hippie farmette days in northern Indiana. Carhartt bibs, coveralls and jackets were my go to barn clothes.
While they may have improved since, 25 years ago, they weren’t the greatest fit for a woman.
Does anybody else make flame retardant clothing? In the power industry, “Carhartt” is synonymous with “FR jacket/shirt/coveralls”. As in, “We gotta go to the substation today, did you bring your Carhartt?”
I have a Carhartt bib overall, but I haven’t worn it in years. I think I have a Carhartt brown, work t-shirt too. Also not worn in years.
Their Rugged Work Khaki is what I wear to work 95% of the time. I cut off the Carhartt tag and they look just like anyone else’s khakis, except they last forever and are very comfortable. I own them in four different colors.
I also have insulated coveralls, a lined Duck coat, and a denim shirt.
The lined canvas shirt/jacket things were daily wear when I had a job that required frequent excursions into cold areas.
I also wore the heavy-duty duck trousers for several years, but switched when they started making a lighter weight version, which become luxuriously soft after a few hundred washes. Also have several pairs of their knee-length shorts.
I like to use the cell-phone pocket (maybe it’s supposed to be a folding-rule pocket?) for my tobacco and rolling papers, which get scrunched up in the front pockets of Levi’s 501s.
I thought I did. Turns out they are Dickies (coveralls). I thought my wife did, but it turns out her stuff is Wall’s.
Why am I posting? 
I recently bought a short sleeved button down sport shirt that turned out to be Carhartt. I probably would have bought it anyway, but that knowledge probably made me feel better about it.
I’ve got three Carhartt henley tees.
Bought them specifically because they have a breast pocket and I like that in a work-tee. Living in Florida, I don’t have need for their cold-weather gear… and not being a tradesman, I don’t have need for their job-site gear.
But I do like those shirts!
I have a Carhartt winter coat, and a pair of steel-toed workboots. Both items have served me well for a long time.