Jumpsuit Week-Day One

Fuck Yeah....Jumpsuits!

 I feel like I should be asking if you'd like me to check the valves and clean your windscreen. Oh, for the kids-gas stations used to have attendants that would pump the fuel for you, clean the windows, and check your oil. When I was a small child, our neighbourhood station had a beatnik attendant working there named, Gus. Gus was a sweetheart, and all the kids adored him. One day as the school bus rounded the corner where the station was, everyone leaned out the windows to yell, "Hi Gus!" He loved that, and it became a regular cheer whenever he'd be outside pumping gas as we went by. Anyway, I look a little like Gus, but without the gigantic curly head of hair, and oil stains under my nails.

 On the farm we had a local tow-truck driver that would regularly come to our rescue in the spring when we'd get stuck in mud, or in the winter when the battery would just give up. He was a fan of jumpsuits too, as well as my baking. If you pull my car out of the mud, and show up quickly (he always did) there's home-baked biscuits or pastry for your trouble. I wonder if he misses us?

My husband went through a stage where he wanted to change his own motor oil. It ended when it became more of a hassle looking for a place to dispose of the oil, than just having it changed. Honestly, I was never comfortable seeing him under the car in the driveway. He never wore a jumpsuit for that, though he does own a heavy thermal jumpsuit to wear over clothing in winter. That doesn't get much use off the farm, but one snowy, frigid day he wore it to wait for the bus. He said it got some very strange looks on a city bus!

Outfit Particulars:
1980's denim jumpsuit (I removed the shoulder pads)-Hand-Me-Ups
Boots-K Mart
Belt-Target
Earrings-Goodwill
Western bracelet-Goodwill
Tooled Mexican purse-New Life Thrift
Fragrance-Vera Wang Embrace-Periwinkle and Iris (Better than it sounds)

I can't promise I will be modeling a jumpsuit each day this week (some will be photographed on a hanger, others re-posts from the archives)but I'm going to try my best to get these up in a timely manner.

I gotta go work on the car now. See you later.