Jellico Clothing Manufacturing Co., later renamed Big Ben, was a major competitor of Blue Bell.One of the biggest overall manufacturers was Blue Bell, which began in North Carolina in 1904.They marketed their products as uniforms for railroad workers.

Larned, Carter & Co., from Detroit, called themselves the 'World's Greatest Overall Makers'.The company produced bib overalls for children in the late 1960s. One of the oldest brands of overalls, OshKosh B'gosh, founded in 1895 in Wisconsin, specialized in blue-and-white 'hickory-stripe' bib overalls.and Lee were not the only companies making overalls in the late 19th and 20th centuries. McCartney's children's overalls sell for as much as US$138 in the US. Designers such as Stella McCartney include them in ready-to-wear collections for men, women, and children. In the 21st century, overalls have evolved into high-fashion garments. Modern history ĭiesel Black Gold Fall/Winter 2010 Collectionīib overalls (in different colors and textiles) became popular garments among American youth from the 1960s onward. They can be seen in many of Walker Evans's photographs.

They were most commonly worn by men and boys in the Southern and Midwestern United States. In the 1930s, the poorest segments of the American population wore overalls: farmers, miners, loggers, and railroad workers. They took overalls as their symbol to protest the rising cost of clothing, and profiteering in the garment industry. In 1920, groups of 'Overalls Clubs' formed around the United States. Soon after, suspender buttons were traded in for belt loops to attach over-the-shoulder straps. In 1927, Lee's developed a 'hook-less fastener' and created 'button-less' overalls. In 1911, Harry David Lee made the first bib overalls, made of pants with pockets with a bib and straps over the shoulders. In fact, Levi Strauss & Co.'s slogan in the 1880s-1890s was 'Never Rip, Never Tear'. From the beginning, denim overalls were popular workers' garments due to their durability.

The first ' jeans' they invented were actually 'waist-high overalls', consisting of denim pants with suspenders attached with buttons, but with no bib. The first evidence of overalls being mass-produced are those made by Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis in the 1890s.

The exact beginnings of the wearing of overalls are unclear, but they are mentioned in literature as early as 1776 as protective working garments commonly worn by slaves. A 1920 advertisement for Over Alls, published in the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees Journal, depicts railway workers adjusting track.

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