# Trope: overalls or suspenders worn with one strap **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** fashion-clothing\ **Created:** [August 16, 2024, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trope-overalls-or-suspenders-worn-with-one-strap/1005806 "2024-08-16T20:34:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2024, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trope-overalls-or-suspenders-worn-with-one-strap/1005806/21 "2024-08-17T03:52:35Z")
And has the advantage of showing more of the shirt underneath the overall bib than could be seen with both straps fashioned. (As well as showing more of the natural contours of the chest/bust than the two-strap bib does.) Why put on a cute and becoming shirt, especially if it’s a t-shirt with an interesting design on the front, and then cover up that whole area with a stiff denim bib? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2024, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trope-overalls-or-suspenders-worn-with-one-strap/1005806/22 "2024-08-17T03:57:10Z")
Most of the yahoos(men) I see don’t wear shirts underneath. It’s super gross and not fashionable in any way. But, yes, a younger girl with a cute top does look cool. I’m pretty sure my young girls didn’t do this for various reasons. Mostly I think it went out of date in the early 2000s. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2024, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trope-overalls-or-suspenders-worn-with-one-strap/1005806/23 "2024-08-17T04:40:11Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Not that I’m saying **scabpicker** is poor! They might just be frugal! 😃 Frugal, and too lazy to repair his overalls or go buy another pair until they won’t stay up anymore. 🤡 ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2024, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trope-overalls-or-suspenders-worn-with-one-strap/1005806/24 "2024-08-17T04:42:29Z")
I’ll send you a giant safety pin. Or tie you a knot 😀 Hey you can replace the thing on the strap that hooks around the button/rivet. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2024, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trope-overalls-or-suspenders-worn-with-one-strap/1005806/25 "2024-08-17T04:57:48Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I’ll send you a giant safety pin. Hehehe, and I have resorted to that at times, too. > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Hey you can replace the thing on the strap that hooks around the button/rivet. Yes, yes, yes. I actually sewed my first pair of overalls, so I know the whole thing can be re-made like a ship of Theseus. Have I mentioned that I tend to be lazy? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2024, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trope-overalls-or-suspenders-worn-with-one-strap/1005806/26 "2024-08-17T05:02:22Z")
There was a house in New Orleans… ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2024, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trope-overalls-or-suspenders-worn-with-one-strap/1005806/27 "2024-08-17T05:16:43Z")
Hehe, I can play a really poor version of that song. Oh god, but everything my mother sewed for me, I never wanted to wear. She sewed suits for me when I was little, and to this day children wearing suits make me sad. I didn’t want to wear anything home made until I sewed my first pair of overalls for myself. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2024, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trope-overalls-or-suspenders-worn-with-one-strap/1005806/28 "2024-08-17T05:35:06Z")
When I was in elementary school, wearing overalls with one strap undone was prohibited by the school dress code because it was supposedly “gang-related”. I’m not sure how many 3rd-graders they suspected of being Crips. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2024, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trope-overalls-or-suspenders-worn-with-one-strap/1005806/29 "2024-08-17T18:59:58Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > like he’s wearing a corset and pin-striped trousers there Yes, it looks like a 19th century gentleman’s attire accessory of some kind but I don’t recognize it. There’s a button and it doesn’t end at the waist or hips. It resembles a current laborer’s lower back brace or perhaps a singlet but corset is probably on the right track. Peculiar garment for sure. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2024, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trope-overalls-or-suspenders-worn-with-one-strap/1005806/30 "2024-08-17T19:26:09Z")
Naw. It’s a one-piece, although the colorist might not have known that. The part around the torso got even more form-fitting after the strip was adapted for Broadway so the actor could dance in the costume. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2024, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trope-overalls-or-suspenders-worn-with-one-strap/1005806/31 "2024-08-17T19:40:41Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Wait. You gotta have _something_ underneath As usual, Beck lives in the real world where people may actually wear bib overalls. Few of the rest of you do. A shirt worn under the overalls has a pocket, you need to access that pocket often, you leave that side un-buttoned. You can tell whether a person is right or left handed by which side they leave unbuttoned. Smokes, lighter, a snack, maybe a phone. This is a silly question and not a trope for anyone who has ever worn these. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2024, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trope-overalls-or-suspenders-worn-with-one-strap/1005806/32 "2024-08-17T19:43:52Z")
Different productions have done different things. Here, he’s wearing a standard set of bib overalls. [![](https://www.allmusicals.com/images/lilabner_1985.jpg) ](https://www.allmusicals.com/images/lilabner_1985.jpg) Here, they cut off the unused portion of the bib. [![](https://www.allmusicals.com/images/lilabner_1989.jpg) ](https://www.allmusicals.com/images/lilabner_1989.jpg) Here, it morphed into its own thing, unrelated to anything in the real world. [![](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53cdd8f4e4b0c984e433fab1/1476444486686-3JICHSIXGIZMG0J1GVM6/Lil-Abner-541x346.jpg) ](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53cdd8f4e4b0c984e433fab1/1476444486686-3JICHSIXGIZMG0J1GVM6/Lil-Abner-541x346.jpg) In Elmer\_J.Fudd’s cartoon, I wonder if Al Capp may have intended it to be simply a regular pair of trousers, worn with a pair of suspenders instead of a belt, but Abner is so poor he can only afford one suspender? ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2024, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trope-overalls-or-suspenders-worn-with-one-strap/1005806/33 "2024-08-17T19:56:20Z")
OMG, isn’t _everything_ the school administration dislikes, “gang related”? ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2024, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trope-overalls-or-suspenders-worn-with-one-strap/1005806/34 "2024-08-17T20:03:47Z")
Weird I’m not Beck, and I don’t live in the same state or part of the country as she does. However, I frequently see people wearing overalls and bibs. Some of them fasten both straps some do not. Often the two strappers will fish around inside for pockets. I think it really depends on the person. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2024, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trope-overalls-or-suspenders-worn-with-one-strap/1005806/35 "2024-08-17T20:52:27Z")
Hey, bibs have tons of storage options. My favorite is that little watch pocket. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2024, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trope-overalls-or-suspenders-worn-with-one-strap/1005806/36 "2024-08-17T21:09:12Z")
Despite the fact that it involved _two levels_ of guessing on my part, since I apparently guessed correctly on both, I’m giving you that one 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trope-overalls-or-suspenders-worn-with-one-strap/1005806.md?page=1)