{"id":8614,"date":"2011-08-07T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=8614"},"modified":"2011-08-07T10:10:56","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T14:10:56","slug":"rock%e2%80%99s-unfulfilled-fashion-ideas-overalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock%e2%80%99s-unfulfilled-fashion-ideas-overalls\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock\u2019s Unfulfilled Fashion Ideas: Overalls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8621\" style=\"width: 283px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-8621\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/rock%e2%80%99s-unfulfilled-fashion-ideas-overalls\/slowhand-alls\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8621\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8621\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/slowhand-alls.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/slowhand-alls.jpg 273w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/slowhand-alls-205x300.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8621\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Slowhand-alls<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As far as my research has taken me, no rocker has looked convincingly cool while sporting <strong>overalls<\/strong>. As hard as <strong>Eric Clapton<\/strong> tries he still looks like a weary truck driver after an 18-hour shift. Perhaps it&#8217;s the smack and not the clothes. You&#8217;d think with all those buttons and clasps, the average guitarist would be afraid of scratching the back of his SG or Strat. But beyond damaging your equipment, one&#8217;s maturity is also taking a hit. This is a rock and roll stage not <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/in-defense-of-lemgamerican-idoll-emg-too\/\" target=\"_blank\">Romper Room<\/a><\/em>. The video below featuring the long and forgotten brothers Tom and David Farmer (yes Farmer) of the band <strong>Blackfoot Sue<\/strong> are totally missing the esthetic of the glam rock sound they are aping. The visuals are jarring.<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_Ojh4wMNRww?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Of course, I have not discounted the &#8217;80s.  What with <strong>Dexy&#8217;s Midnight Runners<\/strong> and their <em>Too-Rye-Ay<\/em>-ing up and down a desolate street looking like they haven&#8217;t showered in days for the &#8220;Come On Eileen&#8221; video.  I&#8217;ll give them a pass since it appears this was just a phase.  Plus the music sort of matches the look.<\/p>\n<p>So does that mean, the &#8220;overall Look&#8221; is acceptable only when a fiddle and banjo are within reach?<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-8616\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/rock%e2%80%99s-unfulfilled-fashion-ideas-overalls\/dexys\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8616\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/dexys.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As far as my research has taken me, no rocker has looked convincingly cool while sporting overalls. As hard as Eric Clapton tries he still looks like a weary truck driver after an 18-hour shift. Perhaps it&#8217;s the smack and not the clothes. You&#8217;d think with all those buttons and clasps, the average guitarist would <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock%e2%80%99s-unfulfilled-fashion-ideas-overalls\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1406,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342,344],"tags":[77],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1406"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}