Farmers are Union Suit Fans 

        This posting was the first in the series, Down On The Farm.... 

My two granddads and my two great granddads and, I suppose, their dads, midwest farmers all, wore union suits while they farmed, six days a week, and wore them to church on Sundays. A couple of them wore their union suits seven days a week, year round. Then after their baths on Saturday night changed their underwear.  It's been a farmer thing for a century and a half to wear warm, comfortable one-piece, long underwear.  My dad and uncles, as boys, grew up on farms and, you guessed it, wore union suits. 

From them, I've come to love union suits, happily having worn them as long as I can remember. And, I'm not even a farmer. But, farming runs deep in my blood as does my inclination to wear their style of long johns!

Clem recently sent along a photo and story of a modern day farmer who, like my ancestors and me, chooses to wear union suits. Sometimes, apparently, that is all he wears as he, well, farms....

The caption reads:  

Farmer Brian sometimes works in the field wearing just his union suit or long johns. He was brought up to wear long underwear from November 1st to May 1st. He adjusts his outer wear to fit the actual temperature. That's thinking outside the box.

Over the years, several of you union suit fans have sent me your union suit wearing stories and photos, having grown up on farms, which I have posted in this blog. 

All the best, Unionsuiters, Chris