Workwear; or, Dandy rigouts in which to perform manual labour.

The after and before.

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That is a SLICE! Jeez-o!

I've got no business being in this thread. This image has cemented that fact. Back to quietly fetishising Carhartt for me.

It actually wasn’t sore when I done it, I was just like ya fucker and looked down and it was hanging off. The boy in the house was like you might need to go to hospital while nearly gagging and I’m like it’s 7pm John I wanna get your radiator off and go home for my dinner 😂😂😂. My fault for wearing shorts that day, trousers only now for me.

Work glove recommendations? Mainly for carrying building materials and some heavier duty home DIY.

Hope you didn’t get infected from the toilet. They break into sharper nastier bit than anything else.

Site kf380 latex builders gloves (£1.59), good grip and feel, buy several pairs as they wear fast. De Walt dpg41 premium riggers (£6.98), leather palm, limited feel but good protection, fucking horrible if wet. Both from Screwfix, they're what I use.

Taffi 4x44c, they cost about a tenner a pair, but are so vastly superior to the cheap shit ones. Tight fit, thick rubber (they last ages so I just keep putting them through the washing machine when dirty), really grippy but also dextrous.

Towa power grab have always been my go-to site gloves. Good grip, sizing is right. Bit more expensive than screwfix offerings but I’d generally get 2-3weeks of daily tree climbing/hauling timber before they died.
Their winter ones are right toasty and they do so many different versions you’ll find a pair for every application.

In the workshop these days I quite like a Traffi with fingerless tips on index/middle fingers. Keep me warm enough and good for dexterous work.

I'd have had good money on you going for the Rapha option. lol

What lid did you go for?

Are they any good for brambles?

Depends which ones you get, the cut resistant ones are a bit better but the backs are knitted so you can always get got. For me they were always the best balance of dexterity/grip/protection.

Honestly the only thing that’ll really stop brambles are double palmed leather gloves made for handling steel cables. Depends how stuck in you plan on getting. Cheap welders gauntlets with regular gloves underneath is generally ok for brambles too.
Doesn’t look like they make the ones I have any more(they’re 15yrs old at least) but these are close.
https://pmirope.com/product/pmi-heavyweight-rappel-gloves/

+1 to Colin's recommendations. The latex/dipped style were what I wore as an archaeologist if I was doing a lot of digging. They'd be grand for 99% of jobs, less restrictive than riggers. Even if they get wet and muddy, they don't feel heavy or horrible. The heavy rigger style if you happen to be doing anything particularly nasty/pointy/jaggy. I find they can cause you more issues if you're trying to do a lot of lighter work, moving around a lot and you have dainty IT nerd hands to start with, like I do nowadays.

I had to clear a fuckton of brambles here, basic leather rigger style were fine, so long as you didn't immediately go in with an iron grip. The rose hip was another story, that went through anything I tried, evil bastard. Made even more fun by the garden shredder deciding it would just whip the branches around at eye level instead of shredding them.

Went for the kask in a moment of madness. Time may prove you correct, but we’ll see.

Great stuff, thanks for all the suggestions people

Yeah got it all cleaned and stuff so that was all good. Falls back to why I now dont wear shorts anymore to work

On the gloves front, I really rate the knitted ones with the super grippy whirly rubber for lifting heavy stuff.
Without this piece of modern equipment my hands would have been too weak for the carrying rich people's art job I did for a few years.

Wife is starting a gardening job on a scilley isles in Jan. She wants a hard wearing waterproof shell to go over thick jumpers or fleece jackets when it rains. Basically a 100% watherprrof anorak but I think it would be nice if it had a dandy quality about it. I am tasked with looking, finding a lot in mens and in camo. A mens cut might be fine but it depends

For working outdoors all day in actual rain it’s army surplus goretex or gtfo. A mate had one that was almost floor length which was great for dragging branches or other soggy materials as wet thighs is the worst.
The naval stuff tends to be a smart blue or grey colour if you want to avoid the rural serial killer look.
I once had a classic bright yellow fisherman’s smock which was 100% waterproof but you ended up just as soggy from sweat.
At least with goretex you can still function.

Not too "army" https://forcesuniformandkit.co.uk/products/austrian-army-m65-gore-tex-jacket?variant=39695748071518

And they have women's sizes.

The good thing about surplus stuff is its designed to be tough.

Otherwise Musto or Filson.

the rural serial killer look.

Quoting this because that is a 5 word description requiring more attention and praise.

thanks all!

scilley isles
Scilly :)

Musto if she wants to fit in.

Would recommend decent waterproof trousers too - it gets pretty wet/windy over winter

If @dancing james wasn’t so sartorially aware he’d def fall into this bracket.
Fine line between legit hipster woodsman and predator…