Pluggers by Rick McKee for May 03, 2021

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    DrHawkeye  over 3 years ago

    What’s a brogans? I’m old, but I still don’t remember those. Please explain.

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    Caldonia  over 3 years ago

    Pluggers like to study any thesaurus they can find. Amos and Edda hate waiting for them to bring them back!

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    Gent  over 3 years ago

    Brogans? Dungarees? Whatever they is.

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    Doug K  over 3 years ago

    Pants! They’re just called “pants”!

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    Breadboard  over 3 years ago

    Just put on what is on top of the clean pile. Who cares about matching .

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    Beaker  over 3 years ago

    Could be wrong but I think most pluggers now are of the jeans or Levis generation. The dungarees pluggers have gone the way of Grandpa Amos McCoy.

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    walstib Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Trousers.

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    david_42  over 3 years ago

    The Navy issued me some brogans when I worked in a shipyard. Steel insoles, steel toes, steel heels – I think they weighed three pounds each. I had them for almost 30 years.

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    ctolson  over 3 years ago

    Dungarees usually have elastic in the waist band. Wouldn’t be caught dead in a pair; Boot Cut for me. Don’t even like the Relaxed Fit – look too baggy.

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    ChukLitl Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Maybe it’s regional, or some veterans.

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    brwydave Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Pluggers in the Northern Atlantic states wear dungarees, in the mid-west overalls and on the Pacific Coast Levis or maybe jeans.

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    martismith63  over 3 years ago

    David is right. brogans are, sometimes slightly dressy, work boots. Maybe for going into town on Saturday.

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    contralto2b  over 3 years ago

    Sounds like regionalisms to me. I have lived in the mid-west, south-west and mid-Atlantic. I have cousins ALL OVER the country. I have 18 first cousins – most of who are old enough to be grand parents and some are great grand parents. Hardly any of them stayed in the “home” state. When we have a family reunion, it is amazing how many different words we hear for the same thing. :o)

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    Billy Yank  over 3 years ago

    When I wear blue jeans, they are the relaxed or comfort fit cut. I hold them up with substantial button-on suspenders. There are special buttons (bachelor/logger buttons) that look like the ones on most blue jeans and you install them with a small hammer. With a waistline like our Plugger today, a belt can not get a safe enough grip to be secure.

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    corpcasselbury  over 3 years ago

    I wore dungarees in the Navy.

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    Ricky Bennett  over 3 years ago

    I thought dungarees were overalls.

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 3 years ago

    I guess I’m not that kind of plugger; I wear jeans.

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    chain gang charlie  over 3 years ago

    Weirdo’s wore “jeans”, and usually got punched out for it…If you didn’t have greasy Levis and an attitude, there was something wrong with you…I still have my knife…here in my desk….and I am 76 ears old

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    mafastore  over 3 years ago

    Dungarees – something I wanted as a child, but I was told “they don’t make them in your size – too fat”. Jeans, on the other hand come in every size – husband and I live in them and I wear my old ripped ones to sleep in.

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