I've been living in Japan for the past 2 years, in the Navy on a ship, and have interacted a lot with the workers who do our ship maintenance. A few things to add to a great video. 1. The wide knee pants and the tabi boots are often only worn by guys who build scaffolding. They move very fast and run around the pipes as they build up so it makes sense. And it seems like Japan is ok with the 'steel toe' requirement being exempt for these guys. 2. The Japanese don't wear steel toe boots, instead they look like Nike sneakers, but they are all steel toed. 3. They often wear matching jackets and pants, usually dense cotton/nylon/polyester blends, or denim. 4. Cross Work is the store nearby that I've gone shopping at and they organize clothing based on the thickness of the fabric. The thinner obviously for summer, but the thicker is usually insulated or they advertise it for abrasion. 5. Affordability. Incredibly affordable. I got some dickie equivalent pants, Japan designed / Vietnam manufactured, for about $15 american dollars, and the quality is superior.
Got any brand names that ship? You look into a lot of detail of other people I work around all of those kinds of men and I couldn’t tell you what they wear jaja I’m to busy doing what I’m doing
Steel toe runner style shoes are actually blowing up all around the world. See it a tonne in warehousing and on job sites where people don't require a boot
As a german carpenter - I think Engelbert Strauss is absolutely untouched in durability and design. But I've wanted to give Carhartt a shot for a long time now if they weren't so damn expensive. Engelbert Strauss also isn't cheap, but it has become the standard here and also the clothing that most craft business companies will give you as their employee will be made by Engelbert Strauss
Quality has gone down. If you’re working hard in carhartts you’ll go through at least 4 a year. But go on about the German carpenter pants those are sick.
@@amyandandy9372 they make their products according to different jobsites. Carpenter trousers will be made different than the ones for painters, also different to highway workers etc
I’m uncertain if this applies within Germany, but in the US companies are known to give discounts to people in certain professions: Police, Firefighters, Paramedics, Military, Physicians, and some Trade Unions qualify. They give between a 10-20% discount for many such brands.
I live in Japan and the biggest brand/store of working clothes is Workman and recently they are improving their design to appeal to more casual users, they even started a womenswear line, the prices are quite affordable and the style is not bad either, worth checking it out.
Just checked their website and they even launched a causual business line with water resistant blazers! Been years since Ive visited their stores, may worth going there again
I am a wearer of workwear for uh... work. I don't pretend to be immune to fashion trends though, and I've been curious to observe workwear that gets marketed to me diverge from "workwear" ala Carhart over the last few years. I've noticed that co-workers who had been at it for longer, and usually had a higher or more diverse skillset had ditched carhart and dickies a long time ago in favor of brands like Khul, Truewerk, and Blaklader. We do seriously physical work, and these brands take inspiration from the hiking trail or ski resort more than a 200 year old mine. Lots of companies have been specializing for decades in making clothes for people who do physical activities for fun, why not take those concepts and let us use them to make money? Modern materials designed to wick sweat and allow full range of motion WITHOUT the extreme loose fit the Tobi guys swear by (I can't imagine wearing those parachute pants in my line of work). I used to wear double front Carharts--I had two pairs that I used for years. One green for building and painting theater scenery, and one black for days where I might be present during shows as well. They took a lot of abuse, eventually wearing through both knee layers, and the green covered in paint. As I left the smaller theater side of things and went more industrial (arena, bigger theaters, some construction, rope access rigging, ect), I quickly found that they were soo uncomfortable to actually work in.
Kuhl is overpriced for what you get, their thickest pants last me just a few months. Carhartt double knee denim loggers are still the most durable pants out there I've found, I wear suspenders so they feel comfortable getting physical in, which is important to me since I spend most of my day running up and down steep slopes. Curious about some of the Japanese denim.
ive worked as a cabient maker so not the most rough job, but my work wear is normally whatever i can get from goodwill cheap, theres a few brands that have lasted i will have to check what they are
The loose cut is fantastic. Yes it looks pretty extreme but they don't post pictures of the more normal looking cuts (still loose). The airflow from loose, cotton pants will keep you cooler than any plastic expensive fabric. The idea of them being a safety risk is hilarious. You know what else gets hung up on stuff at a construction site? Bib overalls, rain jackets, winter clothing, tool bags, safety harness, high vis vest. I've never heard anyone say how dangerous it would be to wear those. As well, the spandex they stuff into modern crap to make it flexible wears out and loses elasticity after 5 days of wearing it. It's a crutch clothing designers use to make up for the poor, tight cuts they pump out for work clothing for whatever reason. Probably because their customers are all unfashionable 30 somethings still wearing skinny jeans after work. Any pant with a loose top block and unrestricted legs feels way better than strapping up in expensive, european plastic bags out of some fetish video.
@onikwa agreed on everything. From someone who spends a lot of time outdoors in Dixie, it astounds me that people insist on wearing anything other than cotton or linen loose fit pants or shorts in the hotter months. Any time I’ve worn straight fit jeans against my better judgement for more than five minutes outdoors in the summer, I’ve regretted it. Feels like you’ve wrapped two damp blankets around your legs.
British/Commonwealth workwear would be neat to see, lots of fabrics that are today considered quite upper crust like moleskin, tweed, and seersucker have their origins in Commonwealth workwear.
I never wore Levi’s to work. I wore Levi’s for fashion in high school but wranglers are much better for work. I did have a Levi’s thick jacket that got stolen at work though. I preferred longlseeve dickies shirts that wick away moisture and double as a safety vest. I had some dickies coveralls too. I don’t think I’ve ever found any affordable carthart stuff that made a utilitarian impact on me. I’m sure they are fine but also cost more. Red wing boots made an impact on me though. Very expensive but worth.
i wasnt aware of the workwear scalping, so when i went to find a mimic of my detroit jacket, that my dad bought me 8 years ago, in a taller size, i was hit with a $300 price tag for an $80 jacket. wtf
Its blue collar stolen valor, and the problem with it is that, it's gentrifying workers out of the clothes they need and some times even like, an example of this is in work boots like timberland, dr marthen, red wig, daner , they tripled their price
SO IF DAVE MUSTAINE WERE TO PERHAPS WEAR THE BALLOON TROUSERS FOR RUBBER BAND MAN MACHINERY ACCIDENT WOULD HE BE BROUGHT BACK TO METALLICA AND PASSIONATELY MAKEOUT WITH LARS ULRICH UNTIL EVERYTHING IS MADE BETTER AND I GET 100K SUBS?
I work for a railroad up north and can confirm- Carhartt is still by far the most popular brand of workwear in my neck of the woods. Tough as hell and roomy enough to wear baselayers under. That being said- I'll be a monkeys uncle before I sport something that wears like a cardboard box around town for non reason.
The French Navy also have some very utilitarian coveralls with a fluorescent safety strip. I worked alongside them when I was a sailor. Only two spoke English 🤣
@@Hypnotically_Caucasian Speaking of navy, striped shirts/Telniashkas are great. I wear mine all the time. Of course, they were derived from French sailors.
Duluth trading company looks very similar to both carhart and levis, but add a whole host of functionality like underarm gussets, extra stretch crotch fits, and more pockets and loops. personal brand of choice.
hard to say, on the one hand not if google catches on that he just made a video explaining that marketing to hood scum destroyed a brand, then again he might algo-escape before they notice resulting in a sseth situation
My dad and I have been really enjoying watching your videos! I think if you even made these without the meme-edits I would still watch them. Good work!
Great stuff but really carhart is just a price tag these days, might look ok but their pants can’t keep up with actual work anymore, or compare to quality of even similar American brands like Duluth.
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I find it sad that we are now at a point where it's fashionable to wear blue collar working mans clothing, but unfashionable to actually do the work. Yes let my put on my carhart jacket and dock dickies work pants to go sit behind a desk. My carhary doesn't last me years because I wear it for it's intended purpose, my jeans and work pants look "worn" because i actually do work in the, not because I bought them that way😂 fashion is literally the biggest scam. When I was younger you would get made fun of for wearing anything Champion branded, now I can't buy a pair of sweats without spending atheist $50. Next your gonna see everybody with highvis stripes on there clothes
I did home renovation / addition work for about 7 years and always loved my Carhartt gear. I'm a perpetually cold person, and their flannel-lined insulated work pants were absolute life-savers for me on cold days.
I work forestry in Japan. We wear spike tabi boots. A little bit difficult to get used to but better traction for climbing mountains than regular boots.
When I worked manual labor, everyone got Carhartt active jacs for winter and one of the guys who used to be a mechanic gave me one of his bibs he never used since he had so many. I still have both and they’re great to use in the winter to shovel and do other work. I don’t wear either except for that but the coat used to be my main winter jacket.
It's getting ridiculous, I work for my local town's Public Works department, and our "Uniform" is all brown Carhart and a bright orange hoodie with the town's logo on it. I've been complimented by people at the gas station, going out for lunch, grocery store, you name it. "Bro, timbs are hype". it's always those younger hipster looking dudes too, or like those midwest emo highschooler kids. I was in line at the gas station buying some snacks and had a young dude ask me "yo dude nice fit, where'd you thrift those pants at?" It's like they've never seen a tradesman in their life.
I have had dudes ask what kind of conditioning I did to make my Carhart jacket look the way it does, I tell them I have been wearing it since 2010. One dude even offered to buy it.
I discovered the fashion frenzy over Carhart Detroit jacket because I wanted to get a bigger version of the one I already own and they're all going for like $200+ which sucks because I actually love the jacket I just need a bigger size 😭
As a danish welder, I wear Carhartt solely for streetwear. At work I wear Snickers or off brand. Don't see why I would get my 200 dollar pants or jacket covered in metal shavings and dust while Im on my knees in the dirt. But now that I think about it, I do wear my Wrangler boots for work sometimes.
The fact that you didn’t mention Ben Davis that have been around since 1935 and dominated west coast work and sub culture. And also evolved to fashion Japan market…. What happen
The best part of this trend is that you can buy actual workwear for so much less, i like to wear that because i am outdoors a lot but also a bit clumsy. My pants with padding on the behind(pants for people who work in windowcleaning) saved my bum when i slipped on a mountain in Bulgaria. The amount of pockets is insane as well, i've went camping without a backpack because everything i needed for one night either fit in my pockets(including campstove) or could be clipped on my pants using carabiners.
I hope work clothes becoming fashionable doesn't compromise their durability. Doing light work, bending over and kneeling will destroy a normal pair of jeans or slacks. Once the quality degrades to a certain point, real workers will move on to different brands that can meet their needs for less money.
It will over time, just like with North Face. I don't trust the major companies cause of that. Although I did begin buying the classic 'totally not an undercover cop' stuff from 5.11. Yea it's pricey but I've never been disappointed with quality yet.
I’m not one for fashion, especially modern fashion (ppl emulating runway looks) but I’ve always wanted Levi jeans & coats/jackets bc since a kid I’ve heard they were the best of the best bc of their durability. I’ve heard of Carhartt but I thought they were a red neck/southern brand. Prices seem extreme but it would be cool to have more durable jackets/coats. It’s like back a century ago, you could find a cobbler & tailor & their work held up bc everyone needed their expertise. And it was cheap. Now there’s less of these experienced people so the prices shot through the roof.
I find it funny that you thought of Carhartt as a southern brand, considering that where I'm from they're associated with working way up north in -40° conditions.
Don't bother with Levis. Theor workwear line isn't terrible, but their standard jeans are just rags. I've gone through 3 pairs in one year. Trust me there's better quality out there for less
i think your channel is really a diamond in the rough that i was extremely lucky to come across but i do have one thing that i don't agree with. though i don't doubt the tobi pants have had an effect on japanese fashion culture, in america the sudden interest in baggy jeans(and really pants in general) stems from the nostalgia for the fashion of the early 2000s and 90's hip-hop culture which likely influenced europe's sudden obsession with baggy jeans. i don't doubt the tobi pants are fire tho n i can definitely see how people have incorporated them into today's fashion.
In Germany there is also workwear that reflects (back) on fashion, Germans in general often prefer very technical and outdoor-style fits. The focus is on practicality, durability and very much safety.
Anyone want to buy a 5 year old tough duck chore jacket with a slightly torn zipper, excessively frayed cuffs, a large dirty bullseye-looking stain on the back that I never was able to wash out, patches of discolouration caused by concrete slurry exposure, and many other hints of personality. $2000 obo, no lowballers I know what I've got.
Unfortunately as Carhart pushed harder into becoming a fashion brand, quality has declined. This always seems the case. Dang it! Why can’t we have nice things?
When you work like 12 hour per day, in dark, at a construction site, you don't really care about ''fashion''. Those models have never worked a second in their life at a job like that. A stupiiiiiiid video.
🤦I buy work clothes to work in. Wearing them to sit at a desk because they are trending is the epitome of cringe. Just like these dudes with the 2024 Ford F-690 Platinum that just goes from the office to the grocery store.
Dickies is pure trash now, I’d order three of the same twill work pants and fit would be different on all three. Horrible quality control, no consistency at all.
I thought baggy pants where always hard I remember getting dickies 3 sizes bigger and cuffing them up to fit with a coke white shirt also a size bigger😂😂
Just wondering if or when german/european workwear will become trendy. There more focused on functionality and take a place between gorpcore and american workwear fashionwise. Engelbert Strauss is the most known brand.
I have a friend who wears workwear even though he’s got no job or anything and I swear he’s never washed his clothes in years, I literally sometimes can’t be in the same room as him cause it smells like Parmesan cheese and butt🤮, I don’t know if it’s the material of the clothing or what but he smells so bad when he wears it.
my every day fit consist of big bill pants, black coton t-shirt, big bill work shirt, a pair of keen utility cincinnati 8 inch safety toe boots and a cap.
I call bs on the loose clothing being useful for moving in and around scaffolding, I got multiple ripped FR coveralls that tore when moving thru scaffolding, wire and cables. Maybe it provides comfortability when your hot or sweating so much. Your not even supposed to have your sleeves rolled up or shirt untucked, much less have loose or baggy clothes which IS a hazard and you’d probably get sent home for the day or worse get your badge taken.
I love about carhartt tho is that is still build to last your entire life. I will admit I have seen a slightly down turn In their durability bit overall those jackets will last you several generations if you want.
I cant imagine that workwear in ex-ussr countries style may be in trend at young subcultures, its hillarious (google техноавиа спецодежда to understand what im talking about), our winter workwear jackets wear oldies 60+, hobos, and other people who dont give a damn how they look😅 greetings from siberia, peace to all! (Sorry for my English)
Not a huge surprise in the era of fast fashion, some people (many) prefer to pay a little more for something they can wear every day and it won't fall apart.
Wearing full kit Carhartt to sit on r/antiwork at your wfh job is the peak of culture
If that culture is degeneracy and lack of purpose, then yeah.
Let me put my workwear on and make a video lmao
fucking caught me off guard there
my money my choice ?
@@useraccount9414true. Choosing to be a goober though
Those baggy pants and tabi combo with the Japanese construction workers is actually hard as fuck
Reminds me of the hakama pants people wear when doing kendo or in those old samurai pictures where they aren't wearing armor
It reminds me of the pants that some of the characters wear in Kingdom hearts. Namely, Sora, Riku, and Terra
Might have to cop me some with those boots too they go hard asff
Always make sure to follow safety guidelines when building scaffolding or the OSHA ninjas will get you
but only on the actual construction workers
I've been living in Japan for the past 2 years, in the Navy on a ship, and have interacted a lot with the workers who do our ship maintenance. A few things to add to a great video.
1. The wide knee pants and the tabi boots are often only worn by guys who build scaffolding. They move very fast and run around the pipes as they build up so it makes sense. And it seems like Japan is ok with the 'steel toe' requirement being exempt for these guys.
2. The Japanese don't wear steel toe boots, instead they look like Nike sneakers, but they are all steel toed.
3. They often wear matching jackets and pants, usually dense cotton/nylon/polyester blends, or denim.
4. Cross Work is the store nearby that I've gone shopping at and they organize clothing based on the thickness of the fabric. The thinner obviously for summer, but the thicker is usually insulated or they advertise it for abrasion.
5. Affordability. Incredibly affordable. I got some dickie equivalent pants, Japan designed / Vietnam manufactured, for about $15 american dollars, and the quality is superior.
Japan has a knack for making things better then the original lol
Got any brand names that ship? You look into a lot of detail of other people I work around all of those kinds of men and I couldn’t tell you what they wear jaja I’m to busy doing what I’m doing
@@lemonjuice9701 Toraichi is a popular one. Marugen, Hakata and Kaseyama are also pretty good.
Brand for the workwear pants? Wanna get some for me and unc
Steel toe runner style shoes are actually blowing up all around the world. See it a tonne in warehousing and on job sites where people don't require a boot
As a german carpenter - I think Engelbert Strauss is absolutely untouched in durability and design. But I've wanted to give Carhartt a shot for a long time now if they weren't so damn expensive. Engelbert Strauss also isn't cheap, but it has become the standard here and also the clothing that most craft business companies will give you as their employee will be made by Engelbert Strauss
Quality has gone down. If you’re working hard in carhartts you’ll go through at least 4 a year.
But go on about the German carpenter pants those are sick.
@@amyandandy9372 they make their products according to different jobsites. Carpenter trousers will be made different than the ones for painters, also different to highway workers etc
I’m uncertain if this applies within Germany, but in the US companies are known to give discounts to people in certain professions:
Police, Firefighters, Paramedics, Military, Physicians, and some Trade Unions qualify. They give between a 10-20% discount for many such brands.
The roofer pants look so dope, the zippers and arrow designs make them really cool, the bootcut version is also great.
@@amyandandy9372can't patch the knees? Or other holes? The entire pair has to be replaced 4 times a year?
I live in Japan and the biggest brand/store of working clothes is Workman and recently they are improving their design to appeal to more casual users, they even started a womenswear line, the prices are quite affordable and the style is not bad either, worth checking it out.
Just checked their website and they even launched a causual business line with water resistant blazers! Been years since Ive visited their stores, may worth going there again
They don’t have a way to translate the website ?
@@wowie3000 i think the only way is to printscreen and use google translate
@@wowie3000 chrome at least usually has a way to translate the website as well
I am a wearer of workwear for uh... work. I don't pretend to be immune to fashion trends though, and I've been curious to observe workwear that gets marketed to me diverge from "workwear" ala Carhart over the last few years. I've noticed that co-workers who had been at it for longer, and usually had a higher or more diverse skillset had ditched carhart and dickies a long time ago in favor of brands like Khul, Truewerk, and Blaklader. We do seriously physical work, and these brands take inspiration from the hiking trail or ski resort more than a 200 year old mine. Lots of companies have been specializing for decades in making clothes for people who do physical activities for fun, why not take those concepts and let us use them to make money? Modern materials designed to wick sweat and allow full range of motion WITHOUT the extreme loose fit the Tobi guys swear by (I can't imagine wearing those parachute pants in my line of work). I used to wear double front Carharts--I had two pairs that I used for years. One green for building and painting theater scenery, and one black for days where I might be present during shows as well. They took a lot of abuse, eventually wearing through both knee layers, and the green covered in paint. As I left the smaller theater side of things and went more industrial (arena, bigger theaters, some construction, rope access rigging, ect), I quickly found that they were soo uncomfortable to actually work in.
It’s just one of those things I have plenty of work boots I also wear out. I also have cowboy boots for casual wear, and I do not ride horses lol.
Kuhl is overpriced for what you get, their thickest pants last me just a few months. Carhartt double knee denim loggers are still the most durable pants out there I've found, I wear suspenders so they feel comfortable getting physical in, which is important to me since I spend most of my day running up and down steep slopes. Curious about some of the Japanese denim.
ive worked as a cabient maker so not the most rough job, but my work wear is normally whatever i can get from goodwill cheap, theres a few brands that have lasted i will have to check what they are
The loose cut is fantastic. Yes it looks pretty extreme but they don't post pictures of the more normal looking cuts (still loose). The airflow from loose, cotton pants will keep you cooler than any plastic expensive fabric. The idea of them being a safety risk is hilarious. You know what else gets hung up on stuff at a construction site? Bib overalls, rain jackets, winter clothing, tool bags, safety harness, high vis vest. I've never heard anyone say how dangerous it would be to wear those. As well, the spandex they stuff into modern crap to make it flexible wears out and loses elasticity after 5 days of wearing it. It's a crutch clothing designers use to make up for the poor, tight cuts they pump out for work clothing for whatever reason. Probably because their customers are all unfashionable 30 somethings still wearing skinny jeans after work. Any pant with a loose top block and unrestricted legs feels way better than strapping up in expensive, european plastic bags out of some fetish video.
@onikwa agreed on everything. From someone who spends a lot of time outdoors in Dixie, it astounds me that people insist on wearing anything other than cotton or linen loose fit pants or shorts in the hotter months. Any time I’ve worn straight fit jeans against my better judgement for more than five minutes outdoors in the summer, I’ve regretted it. Feels like you’ve wrapped two damp blankets around your legs.
Bro i get changed out my work clothes asap, and now im seeing that people whove never been on a construction site think its drip 😂😂
eh I don't judge em. a lot of it really does look pretty stylish
British/Commonwealth workwear would be neat to see, lots of fabrics that are today considered quite upper crust like moleskin, tweed, and seersucker have their origins in Commonwealth workwear.
Barbour!
I never wore Levi’s to work. I wore Levi’s for fashion in high school but wranglers are much better for work. I did have a Levi’s thick jacket that got stolen at work though. I preferred longlseeve dickies shirts that wick away moisture and double as a safety vest. I had some dickies coveralls too. I don’t think I’ve ever found any affordable carthart stuff that made a utilitarian impact on me. I’m sure they are fine but also cost more. Red wing boots made an impact on me though. Very expensive but worth.
Sam vines boots theory.
Wrangler jeans are comfortable as hell, man
@@WretchedRedoran after like breaking them in for a year yes lol
i wasnt aware of the workwear scalping, so when i went to find a mimic of my detroit jacket, that my dad bought me 8 years ago, in a taller size, i was hit with a $300 price tag for an $80 jacket. wtf
Love carhartt. I can sell the jackets I ruined at work for more than what I paid for 😂
Its blue collar stolen valor, and the problem with it is that, it's gentrifying workers out of the clothes they need and some times even like, an example of this is in work boots like timberland, dr marthen, red wig, daner , they tripled their price
sucks to suck and or be poor
Stolen valor is hilarious 😂
@@tomatosauce3091right? 😆
who tf is wearing dr martens on a jobsite
@@GUTSIRL its all ways been a work boot since its creation it was intended to be a afordable and confortable work boot for the working class
SO IF DAVE MUSTAINE WERE TO PERHAPS WEAR THE BALLOON TROUSERS FOR RUBBER BAND MAN MACHINERY ACCIDENT WOULD HE BE BROUGHT BACK TO METALLICA AND PASSIONATELY MAKEOUT WITH LARS ULRICH UNTIL EVERYTHING IS MADE BETTER AND I GET 100K SUBS?
Stop shilling in my comments you grotty neek
Monkey balls
@@wrong_trousersmake a video about black metal
I knew this video was great when Yohji Yamamoto started playing if looks could kill
It makes me mad Levi jeans are such cheap trash these days. You’d be lucky to get a year of wear out of them before the crotch rips out.
Y’all must be some fat Mfs
I work for a railroad up north and can confirm- Carhartt is still by far the most popular brand of workwear in my neck of the woods. Tough as hell and roomy enough to wear baselayers under. That being said- I'll be a monkeys uncle before I sport something that wears like a cardboard box around town for non reason.
Damn vegeta with the professor outfit in 0:48 is gold
Japans cool, but french designers like Gaultier and Girbaud did some insane shit with workwear that deserves greater recognition.
The French Navy also have some very utilitarian coveralls with a fluorescent safety strip. I worked alongside them when I was a sailor. Only two spoke English 🤣
@@Hypnotically_Caucasian Speaking of navy, striped shirts/Telniashkas are great. I wear mine all the time. Of course, they were derived from French sailors.
Duluth trading company looks very similar to both carhart and levis, but add a whole host of functionality like underarm gussets, extra stretch crotch fits, and more pockets and loops. personal brand of choice.
This channel going to blow up in like 2 months for sure
hard to say, on the one hand not if google catches on that he just made a video explaining that marketing to hood scum destroyed a brand, then again he might algo-escape before they notice resulting in a sseth situation
My dad and I have been really enjoying watching your videos! I think if you even made these without the meme-edits I would still watch them. Good work!
That’s very wholesome. Thank you :)
I love the memes@@wrong_trousers changes the pace of the vid
thumbnail was way too cursed but the actual content of the video was super informative and interesting
After peer-review I have decided to tone the thumbnail down (a bit lol)
@@wrong_trousersthumbnail is blessed and based don’t listen to the haters
@@wrong_trousers What was the old thumbnail?
Great stuff but really carhart is just a price tag these days, might look ok but their pants can’t keep up with actual work anymore, or compare to quality of even similar American brands like Duluth.
Kinda funny how working class people create culture, then get priced out of it as it gets deemed fashionable 🤷♂️
What have you been priced out of lol ?
I get like no fashion/streetwear vids here, but this is exactly the question I didn't know I wanted to know? It could be a full series.
HATS: New Zealand vs. Ireland.
PAJAMAS: Argentina vs. Turkmenistan
FORMAL OUTFITS FOR CHILDREN"S PORTRAITURE (1883-1957): South Jersey vs. Tasmania
I went to go binge the rest of your vids and was shocked that you only had 3 vids!! Keep up the v entertaining work!
I find it sad that we are now at a point where it's fashionable to wear blue collar working mans clothing, but unfashionable to actually do the work. Yes let my put on my carhart jacket and dock dickies work pants to go sit behind a desk. My carhary doesn't last me years because I wear it for it's intended purpose, my jeans and work pants look "worn" because i actually do work in the, not because I bought them that way😂 fashion is literally the biggest scam. When I was younger you would get made fun of for wearing anything Champion branded, now I can't buy a pair of sweats without spending atheist $50. Next your gonna see everybody with highvis stripes on there clothes
Such a great channel , nice edits , u get to learn stuff , thanks for sharing ur passion.
Not long till views blow up imo
I did home renovation / addition work for about 7 years and always loved my Carhartt gear. I'm a perpetually cold person, and their flannel-lined insulated work pants were absolute life-savers for me on cold days.
I climb broadcast towers in the US and I’m half tempted to buy those Japanese pants. They sound practical!
OOO NANI NANI 😭😭😭 shit catches me off guard every time
8:57 surely they are sagging their harnesses for just the photoshoot?! fall arrest gear will not work properly when it's loose
I work forestry in Japan. We wear spike tabi boots. A little bit difficult to get used to but better traction for climbing mountains than regular boots.
My dad's old, ripped, oil-stained and paint-splotched Carhartt coat is still the best Carhartt coat out there in my eyes
When I worked manual labor, everyone got Carhartt active jacs for winter and one of the guys who used to be a mechanic gave me one of his bibs he never used since he had so many. I still have both and they’re great to use in the winter to shovel and do other work. I don’t wear either except for that but the coat used to be my main winter jacket.
Can't wait till rappers hear about 511s you wanna talk about drip that's where it's at
It’s been a long time since someone managed to make me laugh with out-of-nowhere jokes like you did in this video. Hilarious keep it up!
9:16 dude on the right closest to the camera has that shit on and he knows it
I wear a lot of Carhartt jackets and hats and dickie pants regularly lol I didn't know I was fashionable oh myyyy
0:45 is that Vageta reading the Quran
Damn you make some seriously interesting mini documentaries man, you put some serious work into research and it shows
It's getting ridiculous, I work for my local town's Public Works department, and our "Uniform" is all brown Carhart and a bright orange hoodie with the town's logo on it. I've been complimented by people at the gas station, going out for lunch, grocery store, you name it. "Bro, timbs are hype". it's always those younger hipster looking dudes too, or like those midwest emo highschooler kids. I was in line at the gas station buying some snacks and had a young dude ask me "yo dude nice fit, where'd you thrift those pants at?" It's like they've never seen a tradesman in their life.
I hate compliments >:(
@@kaydenunderwood8201 I mean I appreciate the compliments, but im legit just wearing my work attire. It just seems so strange to me tbh
I have had dudes ask what kind of conditioning I did to make my Carhart jacket look the way it does, I tell them I have been wearing it since 2010. One dude even offered to buy it.
Everyone knows carhart has the best zippers for stashing your drugs but also staying warm on the corner
30k subs is criminally underrated
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This feels like a quaalude
I discovered the fashion frenzy over Carhart Detroit jacket because I wanted to get a bigger version of the one I already own and they're all going for like $200+ which sucks because I actually love the jacket I just need a bigger size 😭
As a danish welder, I wear Carhartt solely for streetwear. At work I wear Snickers or off brand. Don't see why I would get my 200 dollar pants or jacket covered in metal shavings and dust while Im on my knees in the dirt.
But now that I think about it, I do wear my Wrangler boots for work sometimes.
3:03 the guy in the middle of this image looks like he has the symmetrical face filter on
The fact that you didn’t mention Ben Davis that have been around since 1935 and dominated west coast work and sub culture. And also evolved to fashion Japan market…. What happen
The best part of this trend is that you can buy actual workwear for so much less, i like to wear that because i am outdoors a lot but also a bit clumsy. My pants with padding on the behind(pants for people who work in windowcleaning) saved my bum when i slipped on a mountain in Bulgaria.
The amount of pockets is insane as well, i've went camping without a backpack because everything i needed for one night either fit in my pockets(including campstove) or could be clipped on my pants using carabiners.
On the plus side, those padded pants make it look like you have a real badonk
this was a super quality and enjoyable video essay. You are a funny guy
what's wrong with your voice, you smoke 50 cigarette/day ?
vocal fry
I hope work clothes becoming fashionable doesn't compromise their durability. Doing light work, bending over and kneeling will destroy a normal pair of jeans or slacks. Once the quality degrades to a certain point, real workers will move on to different brands that can meet their needs for less money.
It will over time, just like with North Face. I don't trust the major companies cause of that. Although I did begin buying the classic 'totally not an undercover cop' stuff from 5.11. Yea it's pricey but I've never been disappointed with quality yet.
I’m not one for fashion, especially modern fashion (ppl emulating runway looks) but I’ve always wanted Levi jeans & coats/jackets bc since a kid I’ve heard they were the best of the best bc of their durability.
I’ve heard of Carhartt but I thought they were a red neck/southern brand. Prices seem extreme but it would be cool to have more durable jackets/coats.
It’s like back a century ago, you could find a cobbler & tailor & their work held up bc everyone needed their expertise. And it was cheap. Now there’s less of these experienced people so the prices shot through the roof.
I find it funny that you thought of Carhartt as a southern brand, considering that where I'm from they're associated with working way up north in -40° conditions.
@@WretchedRedoran Can confirm, hell I even use my Carhartt as a snowboarding jacket from time to time.
Don't bother with Levis. Theor workwear line isn't terrible, but their standard jeans are just rags. I've gone through 3 pairs in one year. Trust me there's better quality out there for less
Carhartt wearers hate carhartt wearers the mosy
As if I would wear workwear after work too 😂 makes no sense. Those people don’t work
Yea it's always the bums that don't do anything with their lives that wear work wear as fashion.
c00l video
i think your channel is really a diamond in the rough that i was extremely lucky to come across but i do have one thing that i don't agree with. though i don't doubt the tobi pants have had an effect on japanese fashion culture, in america the sudden interest in baggy jeans(and really pants in general) stems from the nostalgia for the fashion of the early 2000s and 90's hip-hop culture which likely influenced europe's sudden obsession with baggy jeans. i don't doubt the tobi pants are fire tho n i can definitely see how people have incorporated them into today's fashion.
Japanese fashion culture is different then American.
10:05 guitar cover goes hard 💀
In Germany there is also workwear that reflects (back) on fashion, Germans in general often prefer very technical and outdoor-style fits. The focus is on practicality, durability and very much safety.
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I'll wear, use, or drive ANYTHING MADE IN JAPAN.. THRU HAVE MY FULL TRUST, CONFIDENCE, AND ASSURANCE!!!! GO JAPAN!!!!
Crying laughing at the thought of someone not noticing they’re on the edge of a skyscraper because their pants didn’t flop in the wind 😂😂
Wait till you find out about german workwear! There is a big name there: "Engelbert Strauss"
Watching this on a construction site on a Saturday afternoon; interesting
Anyone want to buy a 5 year old tough duck chore jacket with a slightly torn zipper, excessively frayed cuffs, a large dirty bullseye-looking stain on the back that I never was able to wash out, patches of discolouration caused by concrete slurry exposure, and many other hints of personality. $2000 obo, no lowballers I know what I've got.
Unfortunately as Carhart pushed harder into becoming a fashion brand, quality has declined. This always seems the case.
Dang it! Why can’t we have nice things?
Complete dis information Mabey don’t buy shit off Amazon most of it is knockoffs
When you work like 12 hour per day, in dark, at a construction site, you don't really care about ''fashion''.
Those models have never worked a second in their life at a job like that.
A stupiiiiiiid video.
🤦I buy work clothes to work in. Wearing them to sit at a desk because they are trending is the epitome of cringe. Just like these dudes with the 2024 Ford F-690 Platinum that just goes from the office to the grocery store.
...I've been looking for the Carhartt jacket look for a while, thank you for pointing me towards that.
Every zoomers opinion on economics is capitalism bad, theyve bred their own breed of npc's unknowingly
Dickies is pure trash now, I’d order three of the same twill work pants and fit would be different on all three. Horrible quality control, no consistency at all.
Same mfs that say “real men do hard physical labor” only physical work they’ve done was lifting their finger to swipe on the next video
I thought baggy pants where always hard I remember getting dickies 3 sizes bigger and cuffing them up to fit with a coke white shirt also a size bigger😂😂
You can notice how the Japanese were marketed by Carhartt initially since their jackets have that boxy & cropped cut.
Just wondering if or when german/european workwear will become trendy. There more focused on functionality and take a place between gorpcore and american workwear fashionwise. Engelbert Strauss is the most known brand.
lets hope never because they look like shit
I have a friend who wears workwear even though he’s got no job or anything and I swear he’s never washed his clothes in years, I literally sometimes can’t be in the same room as him cause it smells like Parmesan cheese and butt🤮, I don’t know if it’s the material of the clothing or what but he smells so bad when he wears it.
my every day fit consist of big bill pants, black coton t-shirt, big bill work shirt, a pair of keen utility cincinnati 8 inch safety toe boots and a cap.
How the fuck do you leave out timberlands
I call bs on the loose clothing being useful for moving in and around scaffolding, I got multiple ripped FR coveralls that tore when moving thru scaffolding, wire and cables. Maybe it provides comfortability when your hot or sweating so much. Your not even supposed to have your sleeves rolled up or shirt untucked, much less have loose or baggy clothes which IS a hazard and you’d probably get sent home for the day or worse get your badge taken.
I HATE zippers in my trousers, a button never attacks someone’s balls!
Posers wearing workwear who don't work is like the poser who never listened to punk wearing a GBH shirt..
lol old ass talking about punk and you look like a school teacher
All the rich kids wear Carharrt now. Trying to camoflauge as working class but we see you
Woolrich, Wilson & RRL you may need to check your work style all 3 expensive and durable
I love about carhartt tho is that is still build to last your entire life. I will admit I have seen a slightly down turn In their durability bit overall those jackets will last you several generations if you want.
I cant imagine that workwear in ex-ussr countries style may be in trend at young subcultures, its hillarious (google техноавиа спецодежда to understand what im talking about), our winter workwear jackets wear oldies 60+, hobos, and other people who dont give a damn how they look😅 greetings from siberia, peace to all! (Sorry for my English)
your thumbnail is funny cause after I google image "average american woman" , it's very real
Useless poser city kids cosplaying as actual bluecollar workers by wearing work clothes will always be sad and hilarious.
Is this why Carhartt is costing me 30$ now.....I hate this culture sometimes.
Okay cool, but REAL blue collar workers wear Engelbert-Strauss
Fashion, especially men`s fashion always has been influenced by their work
people be wearing this type of clothes just to walk around town and try to show off they got better style all while not putting any actual work in.
I lay rebar for a living, and nothing beats the freezing Ohio winters like my carheart jacket. I had no idea it was fashionable
People that dont do manual labor and wear this stuff just look like cosplayers and posers to me
Not a huge surprise in the era of fast fashion, some people (many) prefer to pay a little more for something they can wear every day and it won't fall apart.
I felt bad for the people who used to wear these clothes for a living and now have to switch cuz of fashion non-sense
Carhartt sucks now. Wrangler Jeans has been the longest lasting jeans ive used
Larping as a brickie is so fashionable. Generation of dim bulbs.
Current ?
These are MY GENERATION'S styles FOR DECADES ?
Are yall having a fvcking laugh ?