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What you're calling a waistcoat we call a vest in the US. Those other things are tank style undershirts and shouldn't be worn by anyone who isn't youthful and ripped.
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I'm a big fan of vests myself, and have several beautiful silk vests that I pair with long sleeve blouses and dressy pants. A very smart look.
Do you have dressy vests/waistcoasts?
 

Unless dressing up, I mostly wear tee shirts with whatever sleeve length is appropriate for the day's weather. I live a very casual lifestyle in a very casual city. :cool:

Do you mostly wear tee shirts or printed/patterned tops?
 
StarSong said:
What you're calling a waistcoat we call a vest in the US. Those other things are tank style undershirts and shouldn't be worn by anyone who isn't youthful and ripped.
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The scruff around here call those wife-beaters. They look a lot like this guy. Youthful, if by youthful you mean still breathing, and ripped, if by ripped you mean full o' liquor and stuff.

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StarSong said:
What you're calling a waistcoat we call a vest in the US. Those other things are tank style undershirts and shouldn't be worn by anyone who isn't youthful and ripped.
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I'm a big fan of vests myself, and have several beautiful silk vests that I pair with long sleeve blouses and dressy pants. A very smart look.
Do you have dressy vests/waistcoasts?
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The only waistcoats I have are knitted ones I have made myself.
I'm curious now....what sort of underwear do you wear in the really cold weather?
 
Thermal type, (waffle knit fabric) with or without, long sleeves, (for cold weather undershirts) Rosemarie.....
and btw, I could have made some of those popular 60's vests, for you, if I'd known you then,
or shown you how to make them.

I also like the look, warmth and comfort of the knitted ones with v-necks,
that were a vest style that men used to wear, long ago, on top of a shirt, often a turtleneck knit fabric shirt with long sleeves underneath.

Does anyone else, from other places, call a turtleneck, a turtleneck?

Much of my clothing lasts a lifetime or two. How about yours?
 
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Yes we call this a turtle neck...half way between a round neck and a polo neck...
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is it the same where you are...?

I take good care of my clothes, does anyone have their clothes dry-cleaned regularly..
 
We would call that a mock-turtle neck, @hollydolly

because it doesn't fold over and down, fully, like a turtle neck.
Nowadays, there are probably more mock turtle necks than the original, once extremely popular (fold over) turtle necks,
that we in cold weather areas, loved. You could unfold the long neck, to keep more of your neck warm from wintery weather, when going outdoors, or when a room was chilly.

Is that you, Or,
Did you ever model clothing, like the people in these pictures?

(There goes my imagination again. :LOL: You might give the same reply to this one, that you gave me once, earlier in this thread.:ROFLMAO: )
 
That is very interesting; Thank you for showing me
what you prefer to call a turtle neck, and that you get confused between a neck and a shirt.
:LOL::ROFLMAO:

Are we probably correct, if we guess that none of us here, look like clothing models? :sneaky:

Except for perhaps.... who??? :LOL:
 
There are so many reasons why I've never been a clothing model, but will stick with the fact that at 5'4" I'm at least 6" too short.

@hollydolly, to answer your question, I've never been much for getting things dry cleaned. Too much of a hassle and way too costly. "Dry Clean Only" on the tag of anything but an extremely dressy outfit is enough for me to put the garment back on the rack and continue searching.

Don't you get tired of clothing before it starts to look like it has seen better days?
 
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Kaila said:
That is very interesting; Thank you for showing me
what you prefer to call a turtle neck, and that you get confused between a neck and a shirt.
:LOL::ROFLMAO:

Are we probably correct, if we guess that none of us here, look like clothing models? :sneaky:

Except for perhaps.... who??? :LOL:
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Yes, me....I'm tall and slim so would have made a good model.
 
I think I know, what knickers are, but wouldn't my assumption likely be incorrect?
:LOL:

Are they 3/4 length pants, with a shirred cuff just below the knee?
Often worn for some type of sport activity? :unsure:

As for jumpers, they were such a unique and helpful, very comfortable, layered type of a dress
worn on top of warmer turtle neck top, ;)
That was way back
during the years when girls were required to wear dresses to school, regardless of frigid cold and whirling storms.
Can you believe I was reprimanded in kindergarten, for wearing leggings (snowpants)
to school in an extreme winter storm?
Obviously made to feel so badly, that I've remembered the teacher's reaction, all my life?:rolleyes:

(Don't worry; I'm over it, now.:ROFLMAO: )
 
I forgot to ask....
Do you realize that when I hear the term, pinafore dress,
I picture something a ballet dancer would wear in a formal stage presentation of Tchaikovsky's ...... Well, you get the idea, right?

(nothing like an informal jumper! ;))
 
My use of those words are the same as Kaila's, which makes sense because we're both American.

I wore a lot of jumpers during my youth through my 20s. Thought they were very cute. I had some adorable dressy overalls that I layered with blouses underneath. At some point jumpers fell out of fashion except for school uniforms and very young girls.

I had no idea what a pinafore was (other than it was some sort of dress) until I looked it up just now and learned it's what we call a jumper.

Knickers went out of fashion 100 years ago or so, but I believe non-US English speaking countries use that term for underpants/panties. Correct?
 
Yes correct... we call ladies underwear knickers..or pants.. the former tend to be used to describe less frumpy pants .... mens' underwear are called underpants or brief..or boxers..

Our jumpers ( sweaters ) are also called jerseys although that's fallen out of fashion more recently,


and these

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are called tank tops ......did you know that ?
 
Gosh no, I didn't. :oops:
Tank tops, here, means very lightweight, summery ones,
worn by themselves, and with similarly low (or lower scoop-U shaped) neckline ,
and sleeveless, as pictured or often with even narrower shoulders,
for the less amount of clothing needed or wanted, in very hot weather.

The one you pictured would be one of the ones I'd originally meant when I mentioned vests.

Do you wish, now, that I'd never raised the topic? :geek::LOL::ROFLMAO:
 
Hard to believe it's the same language sometimes, isn't it? On this same subject, I happened to watch a comedy standup special last night with Trevor Noah. He riffed on being offered a "napkin" during his first Los Angeles taco truck experience. It seems "napkins" in S. Africa are what we call diapers. The taco truck owner was unlikely to have the term serviette.
 
Kaila..the thinner these tank tops get , the more the name changes.. crop top..cami etc....

Now being as I have you both hostage so to speak..can you tell me why your forebears changed the English language out of recognition ? :LOL:
 

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