u/NoCommunication7

I'll post pictures soon but it's very big and unwieldy, i paid about £150 for it off a family member whose switching from guitars to synths, i think it might be a G2622T streamliner, it's the most gorgeous guitar i've seen in addition to being one of the biggest, all i know is one of my favourite singers used one (keith harkin) other then that last i was into guitars was 6-7 years ago where i learned a few chords on a cheap acoustic, so i don't really know a lot, it's quiet so i think i need an amp and may also need tuning, it's in very good condition and looks barely played too.

Would be nice just to pick off random country music with it while sitting in my rocking chair? is country music good for a beginner? i also like folk and shanty and some punk

I was bought up to believe that denim was incredibly harsh and uncomfortable, and that it was basically self-torture for fashion, i was never allowed to wear jeans or dungarees / bib overalls as a kid, even though meanwhile my older brother which was golden boy, was wearing canadian tuxedos.

I recently achieved my dream of getting a nice pair of dungarees, or bib overalls, ones that are shorts too, i had this pastoral fantasy of wearing them without a shirt around the house like the old american trope

Not the best fit, i think they were cut for a woman and i can't do the side buttons up, but i was surprised how lovely denim actually is, and i've asked AI and it is real denim, 80% cotton, it's got a texture but it's pleasent, if anything it's a break from the sea of softness that t-shirts and french terry material are, the material feels familiar but i think it was first time in my life i wore denim.

And it breathes so well, no heat build up behind the bib or even in the waist area that's relatively snug on me.

I was able to lay down in them, not wearing a shirt underneath, reading a book i was resting on the bib, and i was completely at ease, not the fabric prison i was taught about growing up.

Maybe they were partially right, i want to get a proper workwear pair, like dickies or big smith next, but even some people say those are comfortable even without anything underneath.

The only problem is i still live with my parents and i don't have the courage yet to go shirtless in my shortalls around them

How do you typically store/display your dungarees/bib overalls? i've got about two pairs at the moment and plan to get more, but i've got too many clothes as it is, can't use my coat rack as it's full up

I'm thinking of getting a door hanger? i would like to hang them up by the straps with hangers, like you'd find them in a farm shop

Had this one last night, it was pretty interesting

Fell asleep and the next thing i knew i was just coming out of the bath on a warm day, and it felt almost exactly like real life, i pulled on my shortalls without anything else and they were loose and cold (the shortalls are interesting and i'll go into that in a minute) and i walked out of the bathroom, walking across the house.

I saw outside a window a beautiful sunset, something about the sunset seemed too beautiful to be real, it was like one of those idealistic bucolic pastoral images you see, i specifically remember looking at the way it hit the fence and the long blades of grass.

I decided to do a finger count, and this is an interesting thing, i couldn't work out if i was dreaming or not, but i must have been lucid because i decided to do a reality check? i counted 9 fingers, which obviously should have been a failure, but it didn't feel like that, it felt as normal as having 5, i did this again and again not knowing if i was dreaming or if it was real.

I decided to wait it out and suddenly i woke up

The shortalls are interesting because i have a pair exactly like what i wore in the dream, but they fit too tight so i gave them to my brother, which it fits perfectly, he only tried them on a couple days ago, during which i did a reality check.

Also i bought those overalls with the plan to wear them exactly as i did in the dream, after a bath, warm day, no shirt

Has this kind of am i dreaming or not loop happened to anyone else? can you break it?

Has anyone managed to pick up an Americanism due to homeschooling that you've basically accepted as fact and can't change?

Where i live bib overalls are referred to as dungarees which is an old word for denim.

However i can't stop referring to them as overalls or bib overalls or just bibs, it annoys my parents and everyone else to no end, because i grew up consuming so much american media where they were referred to as that, and unlike everyday items they aren't too common here, and overalls refers to a boiler suit or coveralls.

At the same time it's kinda annoying i have to call them dungaree shorts instead of shortalls and even worse, terry dungarees instead of swovies

Why am i getting personalised ads?

And how do i turn it off? one of the reasons i used it over google is because it didn't try to sell me crap based on what i asked it

Do people often put clothes in the fridge or even freezer during hot weather to put them on later? I’m thinking I could put my short dungarees in the fridge before my bath and then put them on (just on their own without a shirt) after I’ve had a bath and they’ve been chilled

This TIFU starts when i was a kid, for some reason one of the things that's never really appealed to me even though i'm a man so it's technically ok, was being shirtless, even indoors in hot weather, it just felt awkward and not fully dressed, so at home, in bed, after a bath, always wore a shirt with sleeves.

But over the last few years i've been drawn more and more to comfort orientated dressing especially in hot weather because i've been feeling the heat worse as i get older.

One night last summer i couldn't sleep because it was nearly 30 degrees in my bedroom, so i randomly decided my shirt had to come off, and i noticed that when the feeling of not being properly dressed wore off, i was actually pretty comfortable, it was somewhat bearable and i even nearly fell asleep.

Back in the spring i converted one of my t-shirts to a cut off tee and wore it to bed, and i loved it, i also noticed that in the morning the skin on my upper arms and around was smoother, but didn't think much of it, i should note i've never had a sleeveless shirt before and the only other time i've been sleeveless was wearing waistcoats / formal vests without a shirt when i was a teenager, but i couldn't wear that for long and kept it a secret because it was embarrassing.

This brings us to tonight, we're currently going through a horrendous heat wave in our country and i'm stuck with the loungewear i bought back in winter, like faux silk pyjamas that feel like wearing plastic, so i've been leaving the shirt part open.

Tonight i've been wearing my shirt open for hours and again i noticed my skin felt smoother so i asked a search engine, and yes not only does that happen, but in hot weather, indoors and in the shade, especially after a bath, not wearing a shirt is a good idea since you dry better in humidity, don't sweat as much, and generally more comfortable in the heat.

Even though my brother walks around the house shirtless pretty often, i wish i had the confidence because i still live with my parents, at the end of the day it comes down to social norms, double standards and how i was bought up, i mean my dad calls my cut off shirt my 'hillbilly top' and i even have a pair of shortalls i'd love to go shirtless under, but again they'd just make jokes, i also did nearly get caught once wearing a waistcoat with no shirt and that also did my confidence in.

TL;DR: I realised that wearing a shirt 24/7 365 even during heatwaves is not great for your skin, but i don't have the confidence because i live with my parents still

I recently got into heritage workwear and everytime i mention it my mom keeps saying i 'should just go off and buy a boiler suit'

I don't like them, think they're ugly and only seen them worn in movies when they rob the banks, is there any reason why i keep being to told to buy a pair though? is it just a family thing because my grandad always wore them?

I like the slow drawn out pace of it and really enjoy singing to it, is there shanties or other genres of folk that are similar? Appalachian lullabies?

This absolutely devastated me, last week I finally purchased a garment I’d been wanting for ages and I went through a lot to get it, just a nice light pair of denim shortalls/dungarees, I was previously mocked by the whole family for wanting them so it was very emotional to just buy it, I choose a frankly ridiculous American flag pair that looked like it was meant for some cultural celebration that they don’t do in my country.

For reference I’m a bigger guy, my jacket size is 54” as an example, I thought it wouldn’t be an issue, since these clothes were made for americans, they must be huge, my brother used to have some american T-shirts and they were gigantic so that’s why I bought 3XL, my normal trouser size and not 5XL.

Turns out overalls should always be bigger, and that made in china items tend to run small, there is no way for overalls to be ‘too big’ for you since they’re held up with straps, I should have known that.

A few days before they arrived the oddest synchronicity happened, I saw a guy wearing a pair in a shop and they looked so comfortable, loose fitting and even he was a bigger guy and they suited him, i was so looking forward to having that loose fit for myself even though I personally don’t have the confidence to pull off a pair of shorts in public, I mainly bought them as summer loungewear.

The day after they arrived I was up an hour earlier then usual, threading the hardware onto the straps and hooking/unhooking those satisfying fasteners for the first time in my life.

I put them on, a world of breezy comfort awaited me.

They got tight around the middle of my legs, up a bit more, tighter, got them up to my hips and pulling the strap tiiight I hooked one of the fasteners, then the other.

I went to do the buttons on the sides, what buttons? So far round my back that there was no chance of even forcing them to the front, pretty sure it would have killed me or catastrophically failed if I did the buttons.

Rather then that boxy workwear-style cut I expected, the legs were basically skin tight like cycling shorts, sitting down I could feel the tension in the straps on my back, I thought something was going to snap (I could actually feel them bending me!) messed with strap length, let the bib sit comically low, nothing really helped, I’m thickest around the midsection, basically have a beer belly so it was loose at the top, tight at the bottom.

Pockets were all jammed shut too aside from the big pocket in the bib.

Saddest thing was I could still feel how comfy they were, the openness, the stiff but breathable fabric that would eventually break in, just that they were hideously tight and would probably cause me back problems or blood clots if I tried to wear them for too long.

They were so tight that when i unhooked both the fasteners the bib fell but the trousers didn’t, I’m surprised the cheap denim didn’t just break under the strain.

I’ll have to exchange them for a bigger size like 5XL or see if they’re offered in any even bigger sizes.

And yes I know people will say I should do exercise, I’ve tried excercises, diets, not only can’t I make it a routine but I never see any appreciable difference anyway and I just end up giving up.

TL;DR: Due to a clothing size mishap a world of comfort ended up being a world of being hugged to death by the star spangled banner of all things

I keep getting sucked into endless consumerism where i buy something, be proud of it, go to the subreddit for it, see the ones other people have and want to buy those too.

It happened to me with silver, though i don't mind it because that's an investment, what's bad is clothes

Between the ages of 16-20 i got sucked into buying designer and semi-designer suit stuff and vintage styles, most of which doesn't fit me anywhere and has been thrown away, i even begged my parents for a lovely tailcoat that got moth eaten and moldy but i can't make myself throw it out.

I ended up with a whole coat rack that's overloaded and still overloaded, when temu and things became popular i took my habit there and kept buying stuff especially clothes, hats that i'd never wear, capes, you name it, most of it icebreakers so i could tell my parents 'i like it but i want a better one' i got sucked into the whole nautical fashion thing and had enough breton shirts to make a french man proud.

Went down to the scarf rabbit hole at the beginning of the year, but i stopped myself from buying what would have been my fourth scarf.

I also have a drawer full of fountain pens and inks from when i was a teenager, the pen addiction was real.

The only problem is now i can feel myself getting into sucked into it with overalls, i just got my first pair with the american flag, then i want one with my countries flag next, then i want a decent normal pair from carhartt or something, and i want to buy one from every heritage workwear brand, like levis, lee, roundhouse, etc

I probably won't wear 99% of them, i don't even know where i'd wear the shortalls i have now with the american flag.

I seem to have this compulsive pokemon-like habit where i have to go and buy 'em all, mindless consumerism, i've tried fishing games and pokemon go and trading games like igun, i do like them but they don't scratch the itch enough of the satisfaction of receiving yet another package.

And if i had the space and money i'd be even worse, furniture, even cars, i've had my dream car for two years and now i've been eying up huge SUVs, i bought a flat pack acacia wood rocking chair a month or two ago and now i see one in the local charity shop and i want to buy it if i had the space.

Not a hoarder but am i spoilt? why all the mindless consumerism?