"What Do You Wear While Painting?" Topic

Based on this admonition, what do you wear? This is more of a mode question than a fashion one … if you just came home from work/church/dinner out, etc. do you change first? Are there specific clothes you wear because you don't care if they get paint on them? That kind of thing …

Top Hat and Tails/Formal Gown
Whatever I Was Wearing When I Get a Minute Free to Paint
Regular Casual Clothes
My Lucky Smock/Apron/Painting Shirt
Buck Nekkid, Except My Multi-Ocular Headset
Something Else..?

For me, its my typical around-the-house casual – jeans and a flannel shirt. This is also my gardening, yardwork, and honey-do/handyman outfit.

Sometimes, like this morning, buck nekkid, but usually I wear clothes that are dedicated painting clothes. I have about a dozen t-shirts of which I wear about 6 on a regular basis. Three pairs of shorts and about 5 pairs of athletic pants.

I have three dedicated painting sweaters.

Underwear, like last night or in the morning, shorts, shorts and a tee. If it's cold I dress warmer.

Whatever I happen to have on at the time. I never dress for painting.

I usually just make sure I'm not wearing good pants, it's always the pants that take the hit when things go wrong.

Casual. Sometimes PJs.

Nothing to nice, since I have been know to get a "little" paint and ink on my clothes every now and again.

An old dressing gown. Sometimes over day clothes to protect the clothes, sometimes (when it's hot) just the dressing gown.

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My wife gets upset if I come in from work then get paint on my good shirts, so I would usually change into '2nd tier' clothing if I'm doing anything that could be considered shirt wrecking.

Old jeans and an old T-shirt. Sometimes sweat pants.

Tuxedo or nothing.

Whatever. If it's going to be an especially messy project (Terran, e.g.) then I'll put on a older t-shirt and jeans.

A well worn and precious apron that was a birthday present from my now deceased niece. Every time I put it on I think of her.

In the colder months I wear an old golfing top/jacket that used to belong to my father, similarly, I think of him every time I put it on.

Tony

Jeans and a T-shirt unless I will be airbrushing; then I throw on an old thin flannel shirt. Flannel is a dust magnet and it helps keep the dust on me and not on the project in the spray booth.

I have a pair of swim trunks and a pair of ratty jeans depending on the season, plenty of ratty t shirts

Something I don't mind risking getting paint on and no dragging sleeves. So I don't paint in PJs and housecoat

No, I only paint figures while dressed as a mime or a clown. All of those freaky clown sightings in the woods, me collecting basing material. I often forget to change before going out.-From the other painting topic.

Or if I'm feeling especially freaky, some old cargo shorts and an old T-shirt. Pretty much year round. You can do that in the desert.

Whatever I happen to be wearing at the time.

Sweat pants and sometimes a t-shirt. If it gets really cold a sweater too.

So my sweat pants are covered with paint, glue and mud from the dogs. The are often quite holy too as puppies bite and dog yard fencing takes it's toll

Painting in the house. Whatever I have on at the time. If I come home from working wearing work clothes, I keep them on.

Painting the house, then I change to ratty jean shorts and a t-shirt from 1987 that has lots of different colors of paint splattered on it.

Whatever I'm wearing at the time, t-shirt, sweater, tracksuit, chainmail, plate, uniform, EVA, lingerie, Angelina Jolie's original catsuit from Tomb Raider …

Erm, just ignore the last few ones !

Since I never wear a suit or anything else that might be classified as "good clothes", I wear whatever I'm wearing at the time. Medical scrubs pants (the ones with lots of pockets) and a t-shirt are my preferred at-home attire.

LT

Usually my "painting" sweats and an old t-shirt, especially if I am priming or doing washes.

Gym shorts, convention t-shirt.

Whatever. Just painting, not a formal occasion. I tend to dress casually whenever possible. After doing this painting thing for the better part of 45 years, I've found ways not spill 99.9% of the time.

Usually Jeans and a shirt I have used while painting before. Since It already has paint on it.

I do quite a bit of spray painting, so paint definitely is going to get on my clothes, and I've always had a set of old and comfortable clothes for painting. Right now, it's a pair of black cotton pants, an old tshirt from some forgotten trade show, an old long-sleeved polo shirt if it's a cool day, and even an old pair of boat shoes, just in case.

I'll put on my painting clothes whether I'm doing any spray work that day or not.

I also wear goggles, a disposable mask, and disposable gloves (100 for $1 USD at the dollar store -- I think they're made of cellulose; made in China) when I'm spray painting.

Jeans & t-shirt. Could be jeans & short-sleeved shirt or (in season)expendable sweatshirt and apron. Never the good "Sunday go to meeting" clothes. Doing that sort of thing just draws accidents. It's like putting your really good high-morale troops too close to the board edge.

T-shirt and shorts, which is generally what I wear at any given time.

If you want to know more than that, it's 1.99 a minute.

A Smile?…I wish!

Whatever I have on, have spilled paint or hit good shirts withthe brush and didn't notice at the time.

I paint in whatever I happen to have on at the moment I get the free time to paint. I have, however, been trying to get wife to paint naked for years but to no avail. Heck, I can't even get her to paint.

Something I don't mind having paint stain, usually a long sleeve T and jeans/khakis.

Whatever I have on at the time. I take great pride in the fact I no longer spatter myself with paint, unlike when I first began painting miniatures some forty years ago!

It's like asking a Scotsman what he wears under his kilt :)

T-shirt and shorts, which is generally what I wear at any given time

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John

Artist's smock, beret, and fake Van Dyke beard and moustache (as sported by the majority of fake Van Dykes); this is serious art, after all.

Strictly black tie formal wear!

Since I live in shorts and t shirts, that's what I wear while painting.

My Star Trek uniform, complete with Vulcan ears.

An apron over what I happen to wear on that day

A painters apron… I never thought of that. A smart idea.

Shorts,socks,slippers,sometimes work pants,T-shirt.

I have some old black t-shirts I keep with painting stuff to use as a smock. My regular is for a radio station who's logo is a paint splat.

Generally I'm not doing enough that I worry about what pants to wear as long as it's not my work slacks.

Waiting for the first honest response: Diapers.

OR: The wife's undies.

Full military Highland dress, c. 1914. Scarlet doublet, kilt, feather bonnet, officer's dirk, spats… and the regimental mascot standing by to support my claret service.

White lab coat.

Evil Scary Clown costume.

uThulwana regimental regalia.

Clothes and paint.

Chanel no. 5

A woman once asked a famous artist if he would paint her in the nude.
He said "Yes, but I'll have to wear a sock. I need some place to keep the brushes."

(Yes, it's a very old joke… ;-)

A mankini. And a hat, a gentleman is never properly dressed without a hat. If it's cold, a scarf as well.