Are Roots sweatshirts the official Canadian citizen uniform?

[Meyer6]

@fishbicycle

I haven’t been there since 1998. I suppose it depends on where you live, but when I was there last, and for the previous umpteen years, you could have seen scores of young guys in the outfit I described, also wearing work boots, whether they worked in construction or not. They’d been doing it since long before anyone would describe grunge as something other than the crud on the floor behind the toilet.

Hmmm, maybe it does depend on the area - I don’t remember anyone sporting this look until the grunge era hit in the early 90s. Maybe it was an Ontario thing? I find blaming Ontario very helpful in these situations.

[Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension]

I’m an immigrant to Canada. They didn’t give me any Roots gear when I became a citizen. Damn. Maybe Canucks just wear it in 'Merca as a secret shibboleth, that has now been penetrated.

Quick! Everybody! Back to tuques and and NHL jerseys until the secret clothing board has time to convene.

[Annie]

The official BC citizen’s uniform is stuff from MEC

[Spoons]

@fishbicycle

… when I was there last, and for the previous umpteen years, you could have seen scores of young guys in the outfit I described, also wearing work boots, whether they worked in construction or not. They’d been doing it since long before anyone would describe grunge as something other than the crud on the floor behind the toilet.

The unofficial uniform of my high school in Toronto during the mid-70s!

But I own no Roots gear.

[Hostile_Dialect]

@Ogre

Do I take it that this has nothing to do wit the Philadelphia rap group, The Roots?

You don’t remember everyone walking around with US Olympic Team gear by Roots around the time of the 2002 Olympics?

@Annie

The official BC citizen’s uniform is stuff from MEC

That’s pretty appropriate, since “mec” is the California term for imported weed.

[Northern_Thalia]

@Mr Bus Guy

About 4 years ago, I was at Epcot, and bought a long sleeved, gray Roots T-shirt. Until this very minute I thought it was a Disney sort of a knock off thing.

Does this make me Canadian? I love hockey more than virtually everything but beer, and I have a couple plaid flannel shirts?

Can we get an official ruling on this?? I could have SWORN that professing your love of beer and hockey in a public setting gets you an automatic pass on the citizenship test??

Judges?

[detop]

@Annie

The official BC citizen’s uniform is stuff from MEC

In Quebec, the official uniform is from Kanuk

[TheLoadedDog]

@Sunspace

We do it to embarass the Australians.

Embarrass?

Heck no, I WANT one!

A t-shirt’d be nice too.

[Barbarian]

Actually MEC stuff is worn by Canadians cross-country. In Germany in 2001 I had an exchange student lean over while I was on a train and say “Excuse me, I’m going out on a limb here, but are you Canadian? I saw the logo on your backpack.”

He was from the Prairies

[Helen_s_Eidolon]

I will admit that I have several items of Roots clothing that proclaim my status as Canadian, which I bought/were given to me after my partial move to the US.

They get me into some interesting conversations!

[Beware_of_Doug]

I have a Roots carcoat. But it’s leather. Call me CBC (Canadian By Choice).