You see US workers in similar getups in certain situations (usually workers involved in wet or messy work like concrete/slurry pumping, drilling etc or working

You see US workers in similar getups in certain situations (usually workers involved in wet or messy work like concrete/slurry pumping, drilling etc or working in cold environments). I for one (having spent thousands of hours on construction sites) would prefer "cotton based jeans and hoodies" to those outfits in all but really colt & wet environments.