While we are talking about fashion, what's the deal with John Deere?

[Maddy McCall]

Around here, it's become the hugest fad to wear anything with John Deere on it. You see teen girls with JD baby-doll tee's, JD jackets, JD baseball caps. And guys in JD tees and hats.

Is the "down on the farm" look popular in your area?

[RevolutionaryActs]

1. I've seen JD stuff in stores around here, those ugly ass trucker hats

shirts, all that stuff.


And may I just say, that bag/purse is the most hideous thing I have ever seen. :o

[Maddy McCall]

2. Damn, RA! If I had an extra $40, I'd buy it and ship it to you, just for

a goof. :hi:

[RevolutionaryActs]

3. BWHAHAHAHAHA!

:rofl:


You are an evil woman...













That's what I like about you. :pals:

[Maddy McCall]

5. LOL!

I would just want to see your face when it arrived. :D

:pals:

[supernova]

4. Overmarketing I suppose

like every other business.

Hey, I shoulda kept my Dad's trucker's cap after he died, since it's fashionable now. :eyes:

[Maddy McCall]

6. My brother was a mechanic at John Deere for about 20 years.

Wonder if he still has that greasy uniform and overalls?

:D

[Zuni]

7. That could fetch big $$$$ on E-Bay

[Maddy McCall]

8. Maybe I should go dig through his closet.

I wonder if he still has his elf costume, which he had to wear as an attendant at a club social here, back when he was like 16.

I could tell stories that would make Napoleon Dynamite look cool. :D

:pals: :hi:

[Zuni]

9. an elf costume from a mall Santa thing would get good $$$ on the

cynical kitsch market, thats for sure.

Hey Maddy :hi:

[Maddy McCall]

12. It was homemade green satin with white bloomers.

Even had the shoes that turned up at the toe. :D

[antigone382]

10. What's not cool about Napoleon Dynamite?

Brotha can dance! :evilgrin:

And yes, I see those John Deere shirts all the time around campus...not my thing...

[sasquatch]

11. Nothing runs like a Deer, except Bush from Cindy Sheehan

Hell I grew up on a farm and me and my brother were fashion moguls a decade before it happened.

[nini]

13. JEEBUS.. that purse!

Are the red states really that hard up for fashion items????

:scared:

[Maddy McCall]

14. It's not just red states...

it's all over the US. Looks like, for once, a fashion fad originated in Mississippi. :D

[nini]

15. true.. there are morans in every state!

I just can't imagine a bag like that.... LOL

[Zomby Woof]

19. I thought it was an Easter basket!

It had that green fake grass. :D

[nini]

21. it would make a great gag gift

I can't get over how funny that is!

[Zomby Woof]

22. Gag gift, alright!

It would make anyone who receives it gag! :D

[Maddy McCall]

26. It comes with its own grass.

That green stuff around the opening. Hideous, I agree. :D

[Debi]

16. John Deere is where it's at

At least here in Waterloo, Iowa!


John Deere's inside job

WATERLOO - John Deere's $127 million redevelopment of its downtown Westfield Avenue and East Donald Street facilities, while largely outside the public eye, is more than half completed, company officials said.

Just like a home remodeler putting the final touches on the project, the final exterior touches over the next couple of years will be when the general public really sits up and takes notice, local Deere officials said.

"We're about two-thirds of the way through our redevelopment plan," said Andy Hansen, Deere's manager of redevelopment at the Westfield Avenue site. "We've got a couple of years yet to go. 2005 is going to be a watershed year. Lots of activity is coming up this year. I wish more of it was visible to the public.

"This year we're going to move 200 machine tools — last year we moved about 120 — and we've got a whole new heat-treat shop that'll be put into full production in an air-tempered building with the latest heat-treat technology. So it's going to be an incredibly exciting year."

http://www.wcfcourier.com/articles/2005/08/20/progress/overview/doc41eeb3ec161a4179289977.txt


Oh, that's not what you meant :eyes:


P.S. Deere has tons of Union people (UAW) not just corporate honchos, so you may not like the fashions, you might just like the folks!

[TheMightyFavog]

24. Allis-Chalmers had better quality equipment....

And they were made in Wisconsin, to boot!

[Debi]

32. Them are fightin words!

:grr:

[Maddy McCall]

28. My brother was a John Deere mechanic for 20 years...

I do love John Deere as an agri equipment business.

However, Mississippi is a right-to-work state, so there was no union for my brother. :(

They've asked him to come back, but he refuses.

You are right that the people there are good people. The office at JD gave my brother an 800 number so that I could call it if my car broke down on my commute to work. Good people, you're right!

[Debi]

33. Yeah, Iowa is now a right to work state

and every year it gets worse and worse.

Deere isn't what it used to be in the 1980's but the UAW keeps fighting the good fight.

[4_Legs_Good]

17. Freaky!

No, not here in So. Cal. (thank God)

david

[merh]

18. I've never been able to understand why folks want to be walking

advertisements for corporations in the first place. I mean, if they pay you to wear the sandwich boards, that is one thing. But heck, wearing the logoss is paying the corporations to do free advertisements.

I mean, what sense is that? :shrug:

[Maddy McCall]

29. None at all...

It's just so goofy freaky to me that something as "uncool" as tractors is now cool.

There's even a John Deere green and yellow jeep here, owned by some teenager. It's always parked at Walmart. I'll try to get a snapshot of it and post it soon.

[Texasgal]

20. Lately I've seen

John Deere place settings, yeah...DISHES. :puke:

[TheMightyFavog]

23. Those have been around for a while....

Back then most people who had stuff like that tended to be afficianados of John Deere, people who worked for dealerships, and collectors. Most of them tended to live in rural areas.

I know a father of a friend from school who had his entire basement decked out with John Deere Stuff, everything from signage to miniature tractors and implements.

[Maddy McCall]

30. Hon, you can even get drapes and bedspreads in John Deere.

[no name no slogan]

25. Who knew looking like a MN soybean farmer would become trendy

Cripes, you know we're at a fashion low point when wearing a feedcap is the height of fashion.

What next, hiphuggers on guys? Oh, wait,...

[WCGreen]

27. I don't know But I will tray to keep the trend under track or not

[Hobarticus]

31. Q: Why don't farmers wear sneakers?

A: Because John Deere doesn't give them away.

Born n' bred in Iowa. Old joke.

[Debi]

34. You are evil!

:P been to the co-op lately?

[Hobarticus]

36. Nope, but I went to Theisen's last night!

And if you can't get it at Theisen's, then you don't need it, as they say around here.

:hi:

[Wapsie B]

35. I've seen the T-shirts here ocassionally.

But that's it. And the ball caps.

[dawg]

37. They sell John Deere panties in my town!

I kid you not.

[Debi]

38. And how do you know this?

:shrug:

[Maddy McCall]

39. Yeah! How does he know?

LOL! :rofl:

[Debi]

40. Everybody deserves the feeling of silk....down there.....

:P

[Maddy McCall]

41. Uhhh...I think we pissed him off.

:shrug: :hi:

[Debi]

43. Or just embarrassed the heck out of him...

:hug: to poor dawg, just kidding you hon!

[WCGreen]

42. now that would be a field to plow under.....

[Debi]

44. tsk, tsk, tsk,

[WCGreen]

45. As if I could come up with something new by this time

in a thread unless it was sexual in nature..

:evilgrin:

[blondeatlast]

46. Where I grew up, the kids of the farmers and ranchers would have

run screaming from it.

These were kids who knew enough to remove their cowboy hats indoors, of course--the real deals.

[ghostsofgiants]

47. It's because people have no sense of style anymore

Not to say I have a great sense of style or anything, but whatever.