In The Land Remembers from Ben Logan (book 66), there's a great description of the noise that the stiff pant legs made from a boys at school. Yesterday, I have re-read some parts of The One-Room School House: Stories about the Boys by Jim Heynen (book 3) there's a similar plot when a young boy sneaking around at night and can fit the noise with the animal sounds (story Being Youngest, page 49).
I think the noise is especially when the fabric is new raw denim and the bibs can't be very tight. Another great imagination is the smell of new raw denim bibs at school, described in other books.
Then I wonder, if there are still enough plots for writing own novels. There are lots of both fiction and non-fiction books. Movie making is much easier (although most are based on books). You can "simply" take new actors and new locations. But most plots had already been told and shown, especially in The Waltons. Remakes are possible or changing characters and their age. Typical plots are romance, bullying, crime, pranks, floods, drought, problems with parents or siblings, health issues (handicapped, blind), death, ...
There are different time settings (see the year lists, I recently added ~20 movies, I forgot). Western means mainly ranches but mainly beige cotton bibs. 1930s Great Depression is probably one of the best settings. Then the 1950s. The 1970s, 80s and present farm settings are too modern to me. Another thing is future and time travel what bears more possibilities. Currently, I won't write books nor make movies.
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