Why do painters wear white clothes?

Answer 1

easier to wash and maintain! white do not fade when thrown into solvents to remove paint but other colors would fade or become patchy

Answer 2

Professional painters wear white suits over their clothes that are made of a double sided paper with a thin kind of plastic on one side to keep the paint out if it get's wet.

I don't know about painters wearing white clothing?

Answer 3

Because white is easier to ash,doesn't cost much,and if you had a red smock then why paint and use a good smock just to splatter paint around on it?

Answer 4

The second answer is right. Traditionally, that was the reason why paint overalls were white.

Answer 5

I often wonder this same thing?... I think if they are real careful, the clothes stay clean, and then it proves how good they are at their job?

Just an Idea!

Answer 6

White is a cheap, natural color. Why pay for dye when there is going to have paint on it?

Answer 7

Same reason drywall finishers wear them. They show anything, so their wives know they have been at work and not the bar.

Answer 8

we only do when using white paint (very common), that way our clothes always look new -- roll a lttle here, brush on a little there

BAM

Answer 9

to show their employers that they really havee been working. see if you go in clean and come out splattered in paint they have to assume youve been working hard right?

Answer 10

so they can see when they spill paint so they dont lean against the wall with their painty overalls