History Main / OverallsAndGingham

* Applejack's official [[AnthropomorphicPersonification humanized]] design in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'' has her with a long, denim skirt and a green-and-white blouse. Some shorts show her wearing denim overalls when doing actual farm work.

* Applejack's official [[AnthropomorphicPersonification humanized]] design in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'' has her with a long, denim skirt and a green-and-white blouse. Some shorts show her wearing denim overalls when doing actual farm work.

* Applejack's official [[AnthropomorphicPersonification humanized]] design in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'' has her with a long, denim skirt and a green-and-white blouse.

* ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon'' games frequently use this:
** The classic ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasons'' protagonist Pete wears a backwards baseball cap, a kerchief around his neck, and denim overalls.

* ''WesternAnimation/BeethovenTheAnimatedSeries'': 'Down on the Farm', As the title says, the family takes a trip to visit their relatives on a farm where their bully son wears overalls. After he pulls a prank, ruining Ted's clothes, his aunt lends him his son's old overalls much to the boy's embarassment.
* The perfect and sweet farm girl Lila on ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' wears puffy sleeves with a gingham style on them on her green dress. She and her Dad move to the city from the country and eventually get used to life there. This style she wears emphasizes her prim and proper farm girl character.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Various farm theme episodes, from 'E-I-E-I-Doh' and 'Apocalypse Cow', a family member would be donning overalls.
* ''WesternAnimation/WhatAboutMimi'': To help Russel avoid being sent to his uncle's farm for the summer, Mimi got him to delivery newspapers. However when that didn't work out, due to a grumpy neighbor blaming them for a prank bullies were originally targetting the kids, Russel and Mimi were seen at the end of the episode on the farm. Both donned blue overalls with Mimi wearing a sun hat. Also in overalls during the episode was a little bratty girl with the bullies, but she wore them more casually.
** Semi-Sequel episode in season three, 'Down On The Farm', Mimi and Russel were once again donning identical overalls. However Mimi now wore green without the sunhat.

When a male character is from a [[FarmBoy rural setting]], a common visual shorthand to establish this is to put the character in denim overalls. For bonus points, put him in a checked shirt (often made of gingham, a medium-weight checked cotton). He normally wears a hat; straw in a historical setting, a baseball cap if he's from a modern farm.

Contrast with SharpDressedMan or {{Socialite}}, both of whom are urban characters. A subtrope of RoughOveralls.

Contrast with SharpDressedMan or {{Socialite}}, both of whom are urban characters.

* The ''[[Literature/AmericanGirlsCollection American Girl]] Kirsten'' books has the titular young girl wear gingham dresses, to go with her growing up on farm land all her life.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'', Judy's father, Stu Hopps, a farmer in Bunnyburrow, wears denim overalls and a gingham shirt and her mother, Bonnie Hopps, wears a gingham shirt. Gideon Grey, wore overalls as child and a gingham shirt and jeans as an adult. Even Judy herself is seen selling produce in a gingham shirt and jeans during her [[spoiler:TenMinuteRetirement]] scene.

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* Averted in ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'', for the first two seasons, Aiko Senoo's trademark outfit are her blue overalls. However she's from Osaka. This was changed in the 4Kids dub, Mirabelle P. Haywood was given a country drawl with a backstory she was raised on a farm.

* In ''ComicBook/ExitStageLeftTheSnagglepussChronicles'', Roswell Garst, the Iowa corn farmer that Khrushchev met on his visit to the US, is dressed like this. Photos show that the real Garst wore a suit for the meeting (and wasn't a FunnyAnimal pig).

* In ''Fanfic/MyLittlePumpkin'', Ash dresses up like his deceased paternal grandfather for Halloween. His grandfather was a farmer, so Ash dresses up in overalls with a plaid shirt underneath.

* ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'': Dorothy Gale spends most of her adventure wearing a blue and white gingham dress, one of the only two dresses she owns. [[note]] In the novel, it was a minor plot point. Blue was the color of Munchkins and white was only worn by magic users. Based on her size, attire, and the fact her house dropped out of nowhere and flattened the Witch, she was mistaken for a unknown Munchkin sorceress. That's why they called the Witch of the North for backup in case she turned out to be an ''evil'' sorceress. [[/note]] In the [[Film/TheWizardOfOz 1939 film adaptation]], Dorothy's blue gingham dress is almost as iconic as the ruby slippers. In the illustrations to future ''Literature/LandOfOz'' books, she usually doesn't wear gingham, but this varies DependingOnTheArtist.

* Ebenezar [=McCoy=] from ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' dresses like this when he's off-duty on his Missouri farm, rather than performing his duties as a Senior Council member.

* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': In "Red River Valley", Miss Brooks, Mr. Conklin, Mr. Boynton and Walter try to get jobs with Deacon Jones' hillbilly dance troupe. Miss Brooks dresses in Gingham, while Mr. Boynton dresses in overalls. Mr. Conklin and Walter don't follow the trope; Conklin wears a dirty shirt and suspenders while Walter wears a ragged hat and vest.
* Mary Ann on ''Series/GilligansIsland'' usually wore gingham (it was her iconic outfit).
* Uncle Jesse on ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard'' [[LimitedWardrobe almost always]] wore overalls, but he preferred a solid-colored shirt. In TheMovie he wears a plaid shirt with his overalls. Luke wore a checkered shirt but jeans rather than overalls (though jeans were originally called "waist-high overalls").

* ''Series/TheWaltons'': Nearly everyone in the family have worn overalls at once point. For the children and their grandpa, more than regular.

* Mentioned in ''Film/TheProducers'' song "Betrayed," where Bialystock has a MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes moment:
-->''I see my mother standing on the back porch, in a worn but clean gingham gown, and I hear her calling out to me, "Alvin! Don't forget your chores. The wood needs a-cordin and the cows need a-milkin'. Alvin, Alvin..." Wait a minute! My name's not Alvin! That's not my life. I'm not a hillbilly. I grew up in the Bronx.''

* Ranchers and cowgirls in the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' games wear overalls and cowboy hats.

* Megan dressed like this in the first of the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTVSpecials''. She's a farm girl who gets picked up by a talking pegasus and sent on an adventure to save her pony friends from the evil Tirac. By ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'' she had received a GirlinessUpgrade that gave her overalls with frills and a white puffy shirt.

* ''WesternAnimation/BeethovenTheAnimatedSeries'': 'Down on the Farm', As the title says, the family takes a trip to visit their relatives on a farm where their bully son wears overalls. After he pulls a prank, ruining Ted's clothes, his aunt lends him his son's old overalls much to the boy's embarassment.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Various farm theme episodes, from 'E-I-E-I-Doh' and 'Apocalypse Cow', a family member would be donning overalls.

* Averted in ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'', for the first two seasons, Aiko Senoo's trademark outfit are her blue overalls. However she's from Osako. This was changed in the 4kids dub, Mirabelle P. Haywood was given a country drawl with a backstory she was raised on a farm.

* ''Series/TheAndyGriffithShow'': Briscoe Darling (played by Denver Pyle, the same actor as Uncle Jesse) also tended towards overalls & a solid shirt.

* In ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer'', Cow Girl, a farmer who lives with her uncle, wears overalls with a blouse.