Would it work? A DIY.

[wsherman]

Taking a stroll down memory lane today I remmembered that I once had two or three of those polyester coveral that were popular a few years back and I thought: You know if you used the conversion instruction to make a pair of jeans into a skirt on one of those you'd have a workable men's dress!

Has anyone tried this, and with what results? I'm sure if the ready made artical isn't still available there may be some in thrift stores out there.
Your thoughts ladies and gentlemen?

Slainte'
Bill & Sir Brinkley the exubrant who are both staying in out of minus 30 to 50F windchills today! Brrrrrr!

[dillon]

It may work to convert full-length coveralls to a knee-length dress, but to make a full-length dress would not, unless you wanted a "hobble" dress. IMHO, men of our age are already hobbled enough!

[wsherman]

Hi Dillon :

What I had envisioned was a knee length dress but if one could possibly find a solid color fabric to match a solid colored jumpsuit/coverall I think ankle length might be possible as I understand the conversion.

Many years ago after moving from a much cooler climate to a hot & humid one I took a cotton coverall in navy blue and converted it to a one piece item with shorts instead of the long pant legs it became my go to clothing after work. Now since I have taken up skirts and kilts it seems that had I done what I'm contemplating here as a possibilty would have served me better in that intolarable heat and humidity!


Hmmm, I think I'll go huntin some coveralls!

Slainte'
Bill & Sir Brinkley the Exubrant

[dillon]

Hmm...perhaps buy two identical coveralls and make one into a full-length dress and the other into a sleeveless minidress? Perhaps that would yield enough extra fabric to work.

BTW, dont you live in North Dakota? If that is a hot and humid climate to you, I would sure hate to see where you moved from...must have been Siberia!

[wsherman]

Hello Dillon

Yes I now live in North Dakota but I was thinking of a time back in the'80's when I resided in Fort Worth, Tx. after having lived in western Wyoming for a number of years. Going from a climate that rarely saw the 80's F in the summer and little to no humidity to the humid Fort Worth area was a tremendous change for my wife and I. Things did not go well there and it wasn't long before we were moving back to Wyoming . We stayed put there until work brought us to North Dakota in 1993. It gets up in the mid '80's to 90'sF here with a few days of high humidity but it is more open and windy which makes a huge difference.

Slainte'
Bill and Sir Brinkley the Exubrant

[dillon]

Someone once told me that the state tree of North Dakota is a utility pole. JK, JK, relax and grin!

[crfriend]

Someone once told me that the state tree of North Dakota is a utility pole.

I've been in North Dakota (well, more like through it on trains) and I can appreciate that observation. It's pretty flat, and the wind does howl (even when the train is stopped waiting for a freight drag to clear an interlocking up ahead, which can sometimes take hours). The image of the "state tree" reminds me of the stunted little pine trees my (now-late) father and I encountered on Newfoundland and Labrador which only had branches on the leeward side and a perpetual list to leeward as well.

Then there's North Dakota's next-door neighbor to the west -- Montana. I can see why that place is called "Big Sky Country". From the vantage point of rails again, much of it is pancake flat and the wind there must be dreadful, especially in the Northern parts in the winter. I still recall staring out the windows in tail end of the rearmost sleeping car at the rails receding behind us and converging at the horizon (straight enough to have been laid down using LASERs -- save for the curvature of the Earth's surface) and every once in a while going around a slight bend in the road, and then watching that recede into the horizon and the rails converge again. Looking out the side windows wasn't any better -- it was a full hemisphere.

I'm sure that there are delightful folks there (Hi Bill!), but I seem more drawn to compact places where one doesn't have to drive 20 miles to get a decent pizza.

[Kirbstone]

Interesting post, Carl, about the flat bits of the USA.

At a party recently I got into conversation with a married couple of aviators. Hubby flies fixed wing and egg-beaters, wifie flies fixed wing powered and gliders. The most striking comment made was that the Earth's curvature represents a glide path sinking at a ratio of 1:32. The best modern gliders can now achieve a sink rate of just 1:30 in level flight, which means that they now can practically stay aloft all day without chasing thermals.

Bit of thread drift, I would admit....

Tom.