What is the correct universal worldwide term or word for this style of clothing?

[Anonymous]

Only cute on the 8 and under set.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do farmers still exist in this country?

There are still people who view farming as a profitable occupation?

Seriously? You know that big area between the east and west coasts? Lots of farms.

Middle America?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are there so many different terms for them?

In the clothing industry, the item pictured will be called overalls. People who have different words for that item of clothing are either misnaming it or are using their regional dialect. Ask people what they call a sandwich on a torpedo shaped bun that has several kinds of lunch meats on it. Where I come from it is a hoagie, but it might also be called a submarine or sub, or a hero, and so on.

[Anonymous]

Heads up that overalls can be challenging once you’re potty-training.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do farmers still exist in this country?

There are still people who view farming as a profitable occupation?

Seriously? You know that big area between the east and west coasts? Lots of farms.

Middle America?

Here you go: https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Highlights/2014/Highlights_Farms_and_Farmland.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought people in the United States called them "jumpers" ?????

Nope. These are overalls. Coveralls are generally a type of garmet worn over clothes, e.g., think CSI. Jumpers in the US are sleeveless dresses worn over a blouse or sweater. Sweaters are called jumpers in England. Dungarees are the same as blue jeans.

[Anonymous]

The person posting pictures is spot on.

I agree that OP's post is overalls, but we moved to the south and here they are often called "longalls" for children (or "shortalls" if they are shorts). Longalls are often fancier/not denim, but they can be denim. They are like this:



So, if OP is in the south and calling stores, she might try asking for longalls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do farmers still exist in this country?

There are still people who view farming as a profitable occupation?

Don’t you remember this from a few years ago?

https://youtu.be/48H7zOQrX3U

[Anonymous]

Overalls are back in style with hipster'ish women in their 20s. I saw a ton of women wearing them when I was in Brooklyn a couple weeks ago. And lots of tragically-hip women wearing them in London when I visited last year.

It's definitely a trend among the fashionable Instagram types.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Only cute on the 8 and under set.

I'd say 6 and under.

[Anonymous]

The style looks "country", the item of clothing is overalls. Usually men wear them on the farm. A jumper is like overalls on the top but a skirt on the bottom, sometimes school uniforms for girls are jumpers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought people in the United States called them "jumpers" ?????

NP. Are you from a country that speaks British English? If so, you're used to "jumpers" meaning what we call sweaters -- not cardigans, which button up the front, but pullover sweaters, are "jumpers" in British English.

As others say above, a "jumper" here is a kind of dress, usually worn by young girls. And a "jumper cable" is....cables you use to start your car battery when it dies!

My English DH was reporting a burglary at his new apartment many years ago and told the police that the thieves stole a whole box full of his jumpers. The police were confused and asked, "So they stole--jumper cables?" Nope, these thieves had taken a box full of sweaters. Weird, but he had zero electronics to steal as he had just moved in days before from overseas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought people in the United States called them "jumpers" ?????

No.

Also OP even if you use the correct term of overalls almost no one in the U.S. has worn these or seen them in person. They’re used as working gear on farms and occasionally in painters studios. So yeah, the normal department store associate will have no idea what you’re asking for and it’s unlikely to find them in a non-farming store anyway.

You must be young - they were all the style rage when I was in like 5th grade in the 80's. Not this particular style perhaps, but I had some I wore to school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought people in the United States called them "jumpers" ?????

No.

Also OP even if you use the correct term of overalls almost no one in the U.S. has worn these or seen them in person. They’re used as working gear on farms and occasionally in painters studios. So yeah, the normal department store associate will have no idea what you’re asking for and it’s unlikely to find them in a non-farming store anyway.

You must be young - they were all the style rage when I was in like 5th grade in the 80's. Not this particular style perhaps, but I had some I wore to school.

Me too. But my favorite pair were overall shorts and were a big floral-patterned acid-washed denim. I was in middle school around '87-'88. I know you all are jealous.

[Anonymous]

They are very trendy with young women currently.