Clothing names

I agree with you on the sleeves/arms issue grannyrebel7, but to me a jumper is a knitted top, it doesn’t have to be wool, it can be cotton, or even acrylic if you can bear it.

When I moved to Lancashire from Yorkshire I was baffled by pants!
In Lancashire these are trousers or jeans in Yorkshire pants are underwear.

As long as you don’t wear your pants over your jeans Missfoodlove tha’ll be alreet!

A jumper can be made of anything these days ( yes, in days of yore it was made of wool....a sheep, a woolly jumper.)
I may be guilty of saying arms instead of sleeves now and then ( so shoot me!)?
I also call clothes togs.

My youngest daughter once asked me irritably why I sometimes call trousers breeks (breeches/britches). Apparently I was the only person she ever heard calling them that.

I told her she should, in that case, be grateful to me for increasing her vocabulary and to look the word up. Note: this was a child who used to fall asleep while reading her Children's Oxford Dictionary.

Baggs, re breeks, let's try to keep alive the old languages!

alexa, yes! When I'm writing and there's a choice of words I often check (often one can guess) to see which is from Old English rather than of Latin/French derivation and I use the OE one.

Baggs, yes but some AS four letter words in the company of other purists only

Anyone here ever worn a frock?!

Breeks are what shooters wear.
When I called a country clothing shop to ask if they sold them, they had never heard of them!

Where does a sweater fit in to all this? And a jersey?

What I find silly in the clothing world is the people who call things by their singular form e.g. a shoe, a trouser. Trinny started it I'm sure.

By the way is a sweater a jumper or someone who sweats?

I remember suggesting to my DGD that she should wear her best frock for some occasion. She repeated “frock” with horror but had not a clue to the meaning.

Oh yes, BigBertha, she also refers to a ‘jean’!

I say frock too.

Does Trinny refer to a pant, do you think?

As in, don’t wear your pant over your jean?

Strange the connotations that arise from hearing various words. Jersey, conjures up a navy blue heavy knit with a crew neck, connected with boats. Frock, a pretty affair worn by a small slim young girl (not me, I was too tall!). Jumper, the garment you were urged to take with you in case ‘the weather turned’. Britches, the word my Grandad always used for riding gear. Pants are things that men wore, hated the word ‘panties’ always wore knickers. My mother always wore french knickers, which for some reason as a teenager I found faintly embarrassing!! Windjammers were a must, but my all time favourite was my other grandfather’s spats, which, even better I was told was short for spatterdashes!

You’re right, Lexisgranny, words do that, don’t they. Is a jerkin another name for a windjammer, or an anorak?

I thought everything was called a top now to save time.. Maybe pants is going the same way, to avoid the thought going into distinguishing between knickers and trousers. ?

Tops and bottoms?

Lexisgranny
The type your referring to is a Guernsey. I have 2. One navy and one Tan.

I've noticed that vests are sometimes just called tops now perhaps to avoid them sounding too old fashioned. Well, I love to tuck a vest inside my pants.