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?
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 Mostly I think it went out of date in the early 2000s.
Frugal, and too lazy to repair his overalls or go buy another pair until they won’t stay up anymore. 
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.
Hehehe, and I have resorted to that at times, too.
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?
There was a house in New Orleans…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Different productions have done different things.
Here, he’s wearing a standard set of bib overalls.
Here, they cut off the unused portion of the bib.
Here, it morphed into its own thing, unrelated to anything in the real world.
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?
OMG, isn’t everything the school administration dislikes, “gang related”?
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.
Hey, bibs have tons of storage options. My favorite is that little watch pocket.
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 