Backpacks
Hats
Boots
Rifles on shoulder
Big ass knives on Hip
dirty smudgy faces and hands with dirty stringy hair

 

Sooo ... Lara Croft?

 

Form follows function.
Fashion has nothing to do with it.

 

I don't know about that What function does a 3 piece suit require? Or a miniskirt for that matter.

Hmm... perhaps a Nice fedora, bull whip, canvas shirt in earth tone colors, slacks and sturdy leather footwear for the guys. For the women tight fitting tank top, short shorts and 3 inch heels, two holsters worn low.

 

Nothing beats a 1970s leisure suit. Throw in some disco boots & a mustache straight out of an old porn movie and then you're ready for anything mister.

Either that or the grey man look.

 

You're the guy who beat the "Leisure Suit Larry" game, aren't ya?

I go for the lumberjack ensemble. Flannel plaid shirt with jeans and steel toed boots. Neatly trimmed beard.
Yeah, the lady folk swoon when I pass by with my keen sense of style.

Or they drop with the giggles, singing to each other "I'm a lumberjack, and I'm ok!" at the level of a whisper.

I would have thought something tactical mall ninja.

Mabye black fatigues with a leather trench coat.

I was thinking maybe a duster, rather than a trench coat. More functional.

Why are there not more women like you on this planet!

There are, they just all meet someone else, before they meet you.

Yes it is. Not one of his wiser picks in roles.

May have been some combination of "under contract," "young and needed the money," or "don't remember WHAT we were smoking, but when it wore off, it was too late."

 

The heels are no-go Matt. Instant sprained or broken ankle. The skimpy outfit also has it's drawbacks - hot brass down the front is as bad as getting hit by a june bug in the arm on a motorcycle. But the bow & thigh holsters make a lot of sense.

Leggings and tunics - long sleeves rolled up - and pockets; must have pockets.

 

As a farmer living out in the woods, most people that I interface with wear durable work clothes.

The biggest 'fashion' statement may be wearing mis-matched socks, or different colors of nail polish.

 

Most male farmers I know wear bib overalls, muck boots and have on a faded baseball cap with the emblem of a tractor company or feed store on it. That is how you know they are farmers. They dress the part.

For too long your average prepper has failed to establish a proper identity through clothing. Heck, some strange survivalists are trying to make going naked as the only proper wear. Not very stylish if you ask me.

 

I go for the lumberjack ensemble. Flannel plaid shirt with jeans and steel toed boots. Neatly trimmed beard.
Yeah, the lady folk swoon when I pass by with my keen sense of style.

 

I hope you have not forgotten the suspenders labeled Stihl? That would be gauche.

 

What any well-dressed apocalypse cowboy would wear...

 

Is it wrong of me to hope something like this will be in style?

But we'd probably end up with things more like these:

Or here's another alternative, but apparently the eyepatch makes one subject to being shot in the back of the head:

 

Same get up I wear into Detroit!

 

Like this?

 

No. No. No.

This was already covered in the "SHTF Hairstyle" thread.
The answer is:

 

What an *** hole! The guy has rifle cartridges in the bandoleers and he's carrying a small revolver. This guy is to gay even for the "Village People"!

 

Thanks a lot. Now I gotta wash my eyes with clorox again.

 

"What ballerina looks good in khaki?"

Every one.

"Yeah, the lady folk swoon when I pass by with my keen sense of style."

Well, you could consider doubling down on the shower regimen. Might keep them from dropping over, just sayin'

 

Way To Go!! By far the best comments I've read on this blog in a long,long time!!

My thanks right down the line!!

 

I'm a t-shirt and jeans kinda gal and I only have three pairs of shoes: my Georgia workboots, a runner-style pair of sneakers, and flip-flops. I love my flannels too

This shirt might be helpful, it has a checklist:

 

Why are there not more women like you on this planet!

 

Permethrin treated Propper khaki cargo pants; Propper 2 pocket khaki shirt w/epaulets; leather money belt; leather suspenders; V-neck T-shirt; boxer briefs; Merino wool socks; bandana, leather safari jacket w/light leather gloves; wide brim hat; pocket no-see-um headnet; Danner boots.

For bad weather add silk long johns, merino wool long johns, shemagh, leather drover's coat with hood & lambs wool liner, lambs wool lined shotgun boots.

Just my opinion.

 

^^^^
So, Indiana Jones?

Just kidding.

I can't get all into the bug out fashion stuff. I wear jeans and cotton t shirts, tennis shoes or some kind of ankle boot. No flip flops, they're neck-breakers. I don't even like shorts or tank tops. But then again my plans tend more toward bugging in than out. Bugging out would require some truly epic, biblically apocolyptic (never could spell that word!) event.

 

...

I can't get all into the bug out fashion stuff. ...

If the prepper is just staying home than fashion becomes less important. Would not make sense putting on all that leather and chains for Dinner.

 

I'm partial to blue jeans with my Nam era Jungle fatigue blouse. Nothing like it for hot muggy climate down here

 

Yeah, it's too hot and humid for leather today. I have to go out here directly and see if I can salvage any of the plum crop this year. I'll have to spray myself with Cutter mosquito repellant, and that's not too good for leather either.

 

wetsuit and superthrusters, OR whatever cammys i grab first, what ever tee shirt i grab first, and right now Danner ft lewis boots.....

 

I have a tactical beard, but please, don't mistake it for a hipster beard.

 

 

Something like this, for instance...

 

Damn.....I find that outfit to be strangely alluring. :

 

I'll go round up some of the gals... Matt: we definitely need to think of the fashion implications post-apoc. Otherwise I'll look something like:

 

... Otherwise I'll look something like:

Hot biker babe? Might work for some particular SHTF scenarios.

 

Loose, airy, and comfortable. Honestly, I think cotton skirts are awesome. Plus they'll wash easier and dry quicker than jeans. Don't get me wrong. I luv jeans but I also love a washer and a dryer. After traveling and having to do my laundry by hand and in a river, the light clothes are easy to maintain. Definitely a lot of hats. I imagine in a long term SHTF, we'd be spending a lot of time outside in the garden.

 

There are 2 types of survival fashion.

1. The tactical type who wears military camo or earth tone shirts and pants and flame resistant clothes and/or NIR protected clothes. Massif beyond clothing Potomac field gear

2. The worker type who wears blue jeans carhart or filson.

3. I'll add a third the out door type without common sense so all their clothes are highly technical and great but you stick out like a sore thumb because the colors are so bright. See mountain hardware north face arcteryx

 

There's a reason for the bright colors (although arcteryx does have earth tones): It's hard for SAR to find someone who fell in a ravine and broke their leg in three places, or got buried in an avalance if they're wearing multicam.

You have to decide which is more likely: a zombie apocalypse, or common emergencies while out in the bush.