# Clothes make the Canadian **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 22, 2011, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothes-make-the-canadian/575602 "2011-03-22T13:46:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothes-make-the-canadian/575602/21 "2011-03-23T02:17:36Z")
> [@cardinal\_fang](#): > > \ > Does anyone remember Storm Riders? Levi’s made a blanket-lined jean jacket with a corduroy collar (or a _leather_ collar if you were uber-cool). Perfect for winter. 😃 > \ Oh yeah. ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothes-make-the-canadian/575602/22 "2011-03-23T02:22:46Z")
I’m immigrating to Ontario in May. I’m taking notes! I wish they called hoodies “bunnyhugs” in Ontario. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![apollonia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2bfe46/32.png) [@apollonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apollonia)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothes-make-the-canadian/575602/23 "2011-03-23T02:55:02Z")
> [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](#): > > Bolded italics mine. > > :eek: Ohhhhhhhhhh yeah. I’ve tried to block it out. But both my parents actually own all three articles of clothing. I just really try to discourage them from wearing them at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothes-make-the-canadian/575602/24 "2011-03-23T03:09:37Z")
> [@cardinal\_fang](#): > > [ul] > [li]“Snowmobile boots.” Cheap, clunky felt-lined boots with zippers and a string-tie up top. Kind of like [this](http://i.oodleimg.com/item/2260352064u_0x480x360f?1295493449), but no fancy logo (unless Woolco counts as a fancy logo).[/li][/ul] Oh my god it’s all coming back to me now. I think I had a couple of those to go with my ski pants when I was a wee one. Does everyone call them ski pants? The warm puffy pants you wear over your normal pants in winter. ---
**Author:** ![Foldup\_Rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Foldup\_Rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foldup_Rabbit)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothes-make-the-canadian/575602/25 "2011-03-23T03:25:33Z")
> [@Rasa](#): > > I’m immigrating to Ontario in May. I’m taking notes! I wish they called hoodies “bunnyhugs” in Ontario. ☹ They don’t call them bunnyhugs out here in Vancouver, either, as far as I know. But most people know the term, I think, so you won’t confuse anyone. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothes-make-the-canadian/575602/26 "2011-03-23T03:37:25Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > I loved my old grey leather moccasins, at least partly because it was like wearing a pair of skates indoors. Warm feet, but absolutely no traction whatsoever. ‘Ever wonder what the world would be like without friction?’ asked the classic Coronet film - nope, I’ve worn moccasins for the last 4 months; I’m wondering what friction would be like. I miss my pair of these. ☹ We moved and I don’t know WHAT happened to mine but they looked like they got chewed up by a dog.. and we have no pets! Always been a hoodie to me, Dad has always had a lined jean jacket that he wears in winter, I still have a pair of Sorels but they’re too clunky for driving.. Can’t recall ever hearing ginch or gonch in the wild though I must’ve learned it by osmosis because I did know what it was before. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothes-make-the-canadian/575602/27 "2011-03-23T03:49:27Z")
> [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](#): > > (Having said that, now **muffin** will probably come in and make a Current River dig at me…) Nah. Down where I live in Oli-Poo, I drive about with my ski boots on (and occasionally with my helmet and goggles on), so I’m not one to make any digs at folks in Current River. But I would ask, however, that you folks please stop burning down our canoe club in Current River. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothes-make-the-canadian/575602/28 "2011-03-23T06:00:09Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Your big workboots are usually shit-kickers or clodhoppers, but I think that’s universal, isn’t it? Yes, but in polite company (such as Grandma), they were usually, “Kodiaks,” “work boots,” or “CSAs”. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothes-make-the-canadian/575602/29 "2011-03-23T09:53:36Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > Nah. Down where I live in Oli-Poo, I drive about with my ski boots on (and occasionally with my helmet and goggles on), so I’m not one to make any digs at folks in Current River. But I would ask, however, that you folks please stop burning down our canoe club in Current River. Oh I had a bunch of jokes to make about the West Hotel and “improving” Simpson street, but ahhh, on second thought maybe making jokes like that to a lawyer would be A Very Bad Idea. I like seeing paddlers on the lake. I hate dragon boat weekend though, although it should be better this year since I don’t work at the large nearby health facility anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothes-make-the-canadian/575602/30 "2011-03-23T11:01:19Z")
When I first moved here, all I could afford was those places on Simpson, so instead, I set up a tent in a field up on Mt. McKay. ---
**Author:** ![gregorio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@gregorio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gregorio)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothes-make-the-canadian/575602/31 "2011-03-23T15:15:20Z")
> [@Larry\_Mudd](#): > > I think that’s an Easty thing. In B.C., we call one of those a “Macintosh” or (more commonly) just a “Mac.” (This led me to some provincial confusion and inappropriate visualization, the first time I read _Ulysses_.) How can a Macintosh be brown, anyway? 😛 I’m not doubting what you called it **Larry Mudd** , but did you know that style of jacket is alson known as a Mackinaw? Here’s the Filson version that I have: [http://www.filson.com/products/double-mackinaw-cruiser.10041.html](http://www.filson.com/products/double-mackinaw-cruiser.10041.html) When I wear it to hockey, Frenchie calls me le bucheron. And when I wore it a few years ago to take the kids out halloweening an old-timer (at a senior’s logde) commented on my nice mack. Told me everyone had them when he was a kid. ISTR he said he was from the Vancouver. Now I know Macintoshes from my Noddy books. Caused a little confusion though because [this was one of my favourite candies](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eVUWcwzqgK8/SGqtduczpxI/AAAAAAAABZ8/wwItGP0F_nU/s1600-h/mackintosh+toffee.jpg) from [Mac’s](http://www.flickr.com/photos/jbcurio/407851323/). Hmmmm. Lot of macks and macs in this post. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothes-make-the-canadian/575602.md?page=1)