Black Dickies overalls: The cool details

Years ago I was idly searching eBay and saw a pair of Dickies overalls in black. Finding overalls in black can be difficult, and the price was right, so I snapped them up. Unfortunately, they were of a kind of odd sizing, with a label indicating "XL" as opposed to the more traditional waist-and-inseam measurement, and these were just never quite there for me as an option.

Until now. I've been losing weight very slowly and very steadily over the last couple of years, with the result that I can at last get into these comfortably.


Personally, I think they look kind of nifty.

And even more cool is that when I looked at them up close, I discovered that they're not a pure black, like my black Carhartt's. It turns out that these are actually a pair of Hickory-striped overalls, that the fine folks at Dickies dyed into blackness. You can see the stripes up close, which is really cool:


And I dig the black Dickies brand tag, which is red on every other pair of Dickies that I own (save two, on which the tag is white). These are seriously cool.