Purple

Even though the daybreak temperatures here at resent engender purple knees, I have made the seasonal switch to wearing shorts.  It saves changing clothes when the day warms up a couple of hours later.

Shorts are my second best preferred garb; shorts with generous pockets that can hold all manner of tools (tape measure, pair of pliers, pocket knife), dog treats, nose wipes, bandaids, random nails and screws, pencil stub, packets of seeds…

You can't get any of that into leggings even if they do have something that passes for pockets. 

My boiler suit (overalls) are the item of clothing I'd choose to live in if someone said leave now and take one item of clothing in your luggage. They are better than sunscreen (even if they are just as greasy at times), have useful pockets, are airy on hot days, and allow for layers underneath on cold ones, and they are fairly shapeless (forgiving is another word that some women use to describe such friendly garments).

Photographs of purple knees have been banned from this blog. Along with evidence that I already have a sock line where leg colour does not blend gradually into milk white ankles and feet. Thick woollen socks and boots are also excellent sunscreen.

Kiwis (the human kind) who plunder about in the bush have a fashion statement in  wearing their shorts even in winter with their brightly coloured long-johns (thermal underwear) underneath - and therefore 'on show'.

Guilty as charged your honour - i even dyed mine purple and put a colourful waistband on them for just that eventuality. My pure merino wool long-johns have been with me since I started work in the Forest Service 47 years ago, but to be fair they did only see the inside of storage a few of the winters I lived in the northern hemisphere. Homes, offices and public transport are all over-heated there and when cycling I succumbed to a more sophistocated fashion ensemble than shorts over thermal underwear.

When you think about it however long-johns are just leggings, so the shorts are merely a modesty layer to spare the world the details.

I didn't sit down to write this topic - it just sort of happened. 🤔 Perhaps normal service will resume tomorrow.

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