Clothing names

Pedal pushers were shortish trousers that narrowed towards the bottom, maybe they are so called because they are handy for cycling. No need for cycle clips.

When I was eleven I had a windcheater, think that is how you spell it, which is probably the same as windjammer, waterproof, elasticated at the waist and zipped up the front, nowadays an anorak.
Jerkin to me is sleeveless, like a body-warmer or gilet. Vests morphed into tank tops.
My father annoyed me when he referred to frocks, as in, why do you need another one or isn't that frock too short?
Anybody not Scottish wear trews?
Never sure what pedal-pushers were.

I once told a teenage niece that I liked her very smart trouser suit. She looked a bit bemused then told me "I don't wear trousers. These are from my new pant suit - the jacket is hanging on the chair. Only Grandad wears trousers."

Frocks all the way, in my area.
"slacks"? Good grief!!

BTW Windjammer that's something I have never come across before.

Grandmajet I remember it as fitted into the waist, on a wide-ish elastic, with a zip, and sleeves that fastened with a wristband and a button.

Meryl Streep you are right! I think I was mixing it up with the clothes the Famous Five used to wear while drinking lashings of ginger pop. At least I got the Channel Isles connection.

Re hanging clothes after the wash, my mum's rule was: tops by their bottoms and bottoms by their tops.

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.

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

Tops and bottoms?

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. ?

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

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!

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

Does Trinny refer to a pant, do you think?

I say frock too.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Anyone here ever worn a frock?!

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

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