wear a baseball hat and a hoodie and you cant go wrong.

Gotta disagree with you. I've been in a NRHS member since I was 14 and regularly have attend model RR shows since I was a little kid. You will encounter a higher percentage of hygenically challenged people in this hobby than in a general population.

My wife said it best as to why she doesn't like going to train shows or gun shows, when she's said that people leer at her too much (and sometimes get grabby) at gun shows, but at train shows, the attendees are "just too stinky!"

In regards to "Crop Dusting"... many train shows are held in halls that serve food that few of us would ever choose to eat if given a choice.

I blame the cuisine!

Jon  

I always thought all the crop dusting was "blowing the carbon out" from being largely dormant in between shows.

Kudos to mlavender & pappy!!!   I can't discern whether the original post(r) is putting us on, or shouldn't be without the caretaker.

     If you are poor...well then fine just wear the cleanest clothes you feel like wearing.

The polar opposite is a joke to me because I wonder if they are advertising that they want to be fleeced?

   And the stories of crop dusting/ poor hygiene are indeed a sad commentary....it turns people away from attending train shows.......my wife & daughter feel the same as P-51's. Really no excuse and very vulgar. At the last York, the moron that was about to get my money obviously fired one off without a care. That was a last straw, and I walked away! Think he had a medical problem?  I don't think so, and I live and take good care of my IBS problem.

I dunno....  The more I think about the OP's posit, the more I'm inclined to suggest it's time to swing ye olde fashion pendulum the other way.

FI:....

Imagine the impact at York!!!???  Throw in a few wandering waitpersons offering scrapple, Yuengling,  funnel cakes, and kosher hot dogs, all serenaded by a string quartet and piano player between 'follow-da-rules!' announcements.....besides a bellyache and a headache, you're bound to have a....different....experience.

Yep, formal tails at a train meet....a definite step up in a progressive world!

KD

I usually wear a 3-piece suit with highly polished wing tips. 

.....

Dennis

It is an excuse to make funny posts while helping a forum member dress for a train show.

Next we will help determine, what type of accent to adopt when speaking.

Don't forget the Fedora.

That's what MREs are for.

Just remember, the kids in the adds wore a shirt and tie 

A few helpful suggestions  to help deal with soiled air….



Happy New Year, Everyone…

K.C.

By George, I think he's got it! You have it right here, problem solved. They need to pass out hand fans at the door upon entry to the shows. Or I suppose they could sell them at the door and you could purchase or pass on them at your own risk.

Well, I detoured on my way home from a family gathering some years ago wearing

a suit and tie, to "hit" a train show, and felt uncomfortable, but almost always wear

the usual casual clothes I wear in retirement.  As a longtime attendee of car swap

meets as well, where drunks and hungovers are not unknown, I would be less surprised to find unpleasant aromas.  My nose must be dead, for I can't recall one of the zillions of train shows I have been to, where it was particularly aromatic, but maybe

I have tunnel vision in "the hunt".  Maybe women get pawed in gun shows because of

the strict rules, to bring anything in unloaded, or otherwise I'd think those perps should be wearing their Kevlar.

Sounds like this thread could be sponsored by any one of the soap and deodorant companies............

So do you dress in your railroad gear or comfortable ware? 

Yes.  These do not need to be mutually exclusive.

I've been behind many a table.  The following would be the uniform I have seen many others wear:

1. Comfortable shoes.
2. Denim shirt or Lionel shirt or railroad roadname/logo T Shirts (e.g., PRR).
3. Blue jeans or engineers overalls.

Here are some optional items:

1. Navy blue C&O windbreaker, with UP, NKP, PRR, etc. patches sewn on.
2. Navy blue Elks windbreaker.  Or Teamsters.  Or IBEW.  Etc.
3. NFL gear.  (Fall York).
4. MLB gear.  (Spring York)

Any of those, in clean condition, would make the wearer look like "a regular guy".

This pic below was taken last year at the Big E.  

The 6'6" guy next to me is my college roommate, currently a Chemistry professor at our alma mater.  I personally wore:

• Plaid flannel shirt.  Ironed.
• Khakis.  
• Running shoes.  
• Deodorant.
• A Lionel-logo thong.  (Kidding.)
• A Smile.

Your mileage may vary,

SJS

Conservative casual!!

 This still might not be enough 

"What fashion is fashionable at a train show? "

     Apparently vest and striped cap with lots of trainy stickers, patches, and pins is highly stylish?  ....DaveB

Well, I'm gonna' have to say this isn't a topic that I have spent any time at all giving thought too. 

Hmmmm.

Okay, having given it thought now, in retrospect it appears a long time ago my conclusion was/is: I just wear what I want and don't give a sh*t what others think.

My OGR shirt and jeans works well for me. Do they still sell them?

Happy New Year!

franktrain 

OK, I held out as long as I could:

NOT BEING THERE!

Seriously, if you're concerned about fashion, model trains probably aren't your thing 

Happy New Years guys !!!

I go to two train shows with three friends at a Hyatt Convention Center and eat at the Hyatt so we dress appropriately as well when we go to other train venues.

In my younger days my grandma and grandpa put me through the same routine, that was as follows. Take a bath with Tide laundry soap. Always a ironed crisply starched white shirt with ironed blue jeans. Lastly, freshly polished black leather shoes. This was in an era when your clothing reflected your manners and upbringing. Thank you, grandma and grandpa.

"Pappy" 

My Lord, in what part of the country do you live?  I've been attending gun shows for twenty years, and my attractive wife has never found that "people leer at her too much and sometimes get grabby!"  I'd certainly have something to say to the offender if it ever happened, but it never has.

As for train shows, well, there are only two per year in my area.  But although there are always a couple of swine in every barnyard, their numbers are no greater than in any public special-interest gathering, such as antique and collectible shows.

Please let us know where these shows are, so we can all avoid them.

The gun shows are in Washington state, have never gone to a show with her elsewhere and never will now. She never told it was happening until after she said she'd never go to another one and explained why. When I asked why that was the first I was hearing about that, she said that she knew I'd throw down on anyone who did that and didn't want to see me seriously injure someone or get carted off by the cops for doing so. It still steams me to know people got away with it.

As for the train shows, I've been to them pretty much in every region of the country at one time or another and they ALL have had the soap-scared folks in them.

Happy New Year Lee. 

I don't care where your going , Start the Day with A Shower and a clean set of Clothes.

SWEATPANTS?  Have you given up on life man?  They are for Walmart.  Haven't you seen the videos?

Not in a million years.

But for our thread starter, maybe.

Instead of Beano,two teaspoons of mustard after eating. Much cheaper and works.

Gee, now I am going into every train show like a bloodhound, sniffing everything to see if I can verify some of these claims.

Nobody wears their MTH speedo??

Mine is really wrinkled and I don't want it ironed or steamed, thank you very much. 

In fairness to us all, I can recall one York meet I went to where the temperature was very high and humid too.  By the time I/we may a trip or two back outside to stow our purchases in our cars, I/we were pretty sweaty.  I took a shower that morning but I don't have a shower in my car.

.....

Dennis

Dennis,

 May I suggest...

Tom