Work Clothes

My sister-in-law is a veterinarian and gave me some of her old scrubs. I've found they are very comfortable (just shy of sweats on the comfort scale), easy to bend and squat in (essential for my daily work inside and out), cool and airy in the summer, and have lots of pockets in useful places for carrying hand tools, eggs, veggies, etc. I haven't subjected them to heavy use and they don't offer protection from briars and brush in the woods (I pull out my jeans for that.) I find myself putting them on when I have a big day of housework or gardening or even when I want to be comfy, but still presentable to people outside the family. I've considered buying more since I see them all the time in my local thrift store, but prefer solid colors and apparently most of the ladies who wear my size prefer cute prints with hearts and teddy bears. I wonder how the cotton/ poly blend they're usually made from would take dye?

I am a huge fan of scrubs. Also a thrift shopper, and have picked up some amazing ones. In fact now when I travel internationally I have a specific scrub shirt I always wear on long-haul flights (easily a dozen pockets, at least two of which zip and stay zipped). When I'm not traveling, it's a garden shirt. It's all about the pockets!!! But to be fair it is dark grey and kind of tailored and doesn't look like I just came out of the operating room.
That particular shirt is full acrylic, which in my experience cleans up well but doesn't take dye. But a cotton blend might; at thrift shop prices it might be worth trying one.

Thrift stores around me tend to be slim pickins, at least for my size, so I have turned to Ebay more for used/second hand clothing. It may be a little more expensive than your thrift scrubs but you can find tons of them listed so your chances of finding the exact make and model you prefer are high. I just did a quick search and there are currently 43k+ listings in the second hand women's scrubs category.