Fashion

[151949]

---

@Sooner wrote:

---

@151949 wrote:

Personally , I'd wear sweats.It's not clean out there where pumpkins grow, and the pumpkins themself are muddy, at least on the side sitting on the ground. Plus you'll be sitting on hay riding out and back.I'd also recommend old shoes or boots, or gardening shoes.

---

@151949  Sweats would be the last thing you'd want to wear to a muddy field, especially if you are sitting on hay on the way out(ouch!).  Being a farm girl and not afraid of a little dirt or mud, I'd wear a pair of good jeans, some boots if I had them if it were muddy, a nice top of some kind and a jacket if it's cold.  If it's so muddy you will be deep, I'd wait until another day. 

There's no reason to dress like a hobo.  You'll probably be taking pictures too, so you would want to look respectible.  Just stay out of the deep mud and you'll be fine.   A pumpkin field shouldn't be that bad in decent weather. 

---

Yep, can't wait to get dirt and / or mud all over my good clothes.

[jonbon]

---

@haddon9 wrote:

---

@Sooner wrote:

I just don't see anything funny or bizarre about talking about pumpking picking in the fall.  It's what people do along with football, tailgateing, Halloween, carnivals, fairs and all such things.  What's the big whoop about it?  I don't get it.

I always go pumpkin picking whether at the church pumpkin patch, the grocery store or where ever I find them.  Don't you pick out your pumpkin?

I can't stand anything pumpkin spice flavored, so that just goes in one ear and out the other for me.  

---

@Sooner . No it's not funny to do those things and they are very common in my area too.  I used to LOVE taking my kids when they were little on a hayride out the the pumpkin patch to select their pumpkins.  Now I just get them either at the supermarket or one of the local farm stands.

What is funny is that the hosts on the Q seem to think people need to wear certain new fashions to go pumpkin picking!  When I went I always wore old sneakers (often the fields were muddy) and old jeans (I was sitting on bales of hay!)

---

Well, they are selling fashion. But seriously, lots of people like to wear "fall-like" clothing for many of the events mentioned above (including pumpkin picking), and when they mention pumpkin picking when selling something, it's usually something "fall-like" or practical (like a crossbody bag). Do we all need something new? Of course not. Might you want to wear this D&Co plaid blouse with some jeans and a pair of Clarks booties to pumpkin pick or go to the fall carnival at school or whatever? You just might!

ETA: Also, not all "pumpkin patches" are walks (or hayrides) into muddy fields to pick pumpkins. There is a wide variety of places included in that designation -- as mentioned earlier, lots of them have other activities and things for sale, and many also just have areas where you can "pick out" your pumpkin that has already been harvested.