How I first got interested in coveralls
My dad used to be the Managing Director of a large bread bakery. I had been there many
times, and seen the workforce wearing coveralls. They all used to all wear khaki coloured,
RAF style boilersuits. I remember going into a room full of coveralls, stacked as far as
you could see. In the room were two old dears with sewing machines, constantly fighting
the endless battle to repair them.
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During the School Summer holidays, my dad got me a job packing rolls in the bakery. This of course involved wearing the khaki boilersuits. I later found out that I was going to be working with a son of one of my dad's employees. I remembered that I had seen him once before and thought it would be fun. Well it turned out to be very hard and hot work; we were counting roles into baskets from a conveyor belt, just after they had come out of the oven, and where cooling down. It was so hot were wore nothing but our boilersuits. |
| The next summer, the factory had moved to a new building. The coveralls were now coloured by department. |  |
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I got a job in the Maintenance department. where I wore a maroon
coverall. That's where I began to notice an interest in coveralls. |
| Maroon | Green | White | ||
| Maintenance | Garage | Bakery |
While still at school, I saved up my pocket money to buy my first overall. I still have it, is a blue nylon coverall, with red re-enforcing stitching. The collection grew from there. I must have easily over a hundred now.
I also have about 10 hard hats, all different colours, ear defenders, goggles, safety glasses, gloves etc.