For Spring/Summer 2023, all styles were featured: checkered or patterned prints, technical fabrics or leathers, classic or revisited to the point of being very long trousers that cover the chest. Nevertheless overalls more beautiful remains the original, the one that is conceived in fabric de Nimes by Levi Strauss. Few people know, but a Bavarian who emigrated to the States in the mid-nineteenth century, before the advent of more famous jeans, came up with trousers with a bib and suspenders that had to be fastened to the shoulders. On the other hand, Strauss looked at the miners and workers he served. comfortable and practical clothing suitable for everyday use and, above all, for the most difficult and tiring jobs.
History of the jumpsuit
But when then overalls become the trendy clothes we all know? Of course, the women who worked in the factories were among the first to spread the new clothes, but the real driving force behind the overalls was different. At the beginning of the 20th century, in fact, another industry was slowly forming in Los Angeles: cinema was taking its first steps, and with it the sky of stars with which glamor was born. This is where the upgrade takes place, as we will say today, and jumpsuit refuses function and embraces the trend, finally separate yourself from the workplace in order to become fashionable. hollywood jumpsuithow they were renamed, everyone wore them: iconic, the image of a very young girl Marilyn Monroe who in 1947 posed for a photo shoot in a red and white striped T-shirt and white denim overalls.
No less unforgettable are long-sleeved overalls from Babette goes to war1959 film in which Brigitte Bardot, with a broom in hand, turn into cleaners at the Free French headquarters in London. Short or long, with or without sleeves.general defeated by the extreme practicality with which it is worn, and if in the seventies it followed the trend with flared trousers and eccentric patterns, then in the eighties it suffers a small setback due to the world of childhood with which it “begins to be associated.” Absolutely naive, Vic Beretton-Sophie Marceau de apple time play the guitar in a white t-shirt and denim overalls. Always naive, but also absolutely chic Lady Diana whose image in a white jumpsuit and moccasins in the garden of her Highgrove home in 1986 was one of the most reproduced by the princess. After all, the nineties were still ahead of grunge, free and provocative fashion, andgeneral it was worn so, simply and at the same time elegantly.
Workwear today
Denim or leather, velvet or silk. And also colored, with a logo or a pattern: just take a look at street style to see the endless variations that jumpsuit lends itself to today.. When fabrics and shades change, as well as how they are used, withgeneral which is worn with lowered straps (one or both) or, on the contrary, with a classic bib that covers the back instead of the chest. Not to mention the many transformations it undergoes: so tight it becomes a jumpsuit for all intents and purposes, or so loose (and pocketed) that it looks like the workwear it originally was. A symptom that the allure of the overalls stays the same over time, from yesterday’s workwear to today’s catwalks (and streets).
Source: Elle