# Name Ronald McDonald's garment **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 22, 2015, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-ronald-mcdonalds-garment/725861 "2015-07-22T07:34:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2015, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-ronald-mcdonalds-garment/725861/21 "2015-07-25T02:43:53Z")
I’d say “sleeveless step-in smock”. Because it does look like a step-in smock. Except no sleeves. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2015, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-ronald-mcdonalds-garment/725861/22 "2015-07-25T02:54:41Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > 😕 I’m not suggesting that Ronald McDonald was patterned after the Comedian. I’m saying that a similar garment is called a boiler suit, and citing the early Comedian as an example. I wasn’t suggesting that you were suggesting the Comedian was patterned after Ronald MacDonald. **psychonaut** asked if he predated him, and I answered the question. This was the [only image](http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/watchmen/images/e/eb/Young_comedian.png/revision/latest?cb=20120914074741) I could find of that version of the costume. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2015, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-ronald-mcdonalds-garment/725861/23 "2015-07-25T07:53:16Z")
The problem I see with everyone calling it “sleeveless” ANYTHING is that, as near as I can make out from the available pics, the arm coverings are part of the garment; it’s not a striped shirt being worn beneath any kind of sleeveless thing. So, I have to call it a jumpsuit, with jodhpur-flared legs. And truly unfortunate color choices. ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2015, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-ronald-mcdonalds-garment/725861/24 "2015-07-25T08:29:38Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > The problem I see with everyone calling it “sleeveless” ANYTHING is that, as near as I can make out from the available pics, the arm coverings are part of the garment; it’s not a striped shirt being worn beneath any kind of sleeveless thing. Check out some of the old McDonald’s TV commercials on YouTube. In some of them, the red and white sleeves don’t seem to be connected to the yellow jumpsuit. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2015, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-ronald-mcdonalds-garment/725861/25 "2015-07-25T09:26:57Z")
It isn’t a garment. That is the Mcbeast’s Mcflesh; though perhaps Mcsubstance might be a more accurate term… ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2015, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-ronald-mcdonalds-garment/725861/26 "2015-07-25T17:14:50Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > Creepy? Disturbing? It looks like he murdered a child and is wearing his victim’s clothes. It doesn’t fit him right so it exposes his red striped prison outfit underneath. His ashen face (I assume from years of being locked away) is splattered with his victim’s blood around the mouth, indicating he ate said victim(s). Then washed his hair in the pool of blood… :eek: > [@](#): > > Or am I the only one seeing this? Not any more, thank-you-very-much! And I certainly don’t want to hear your thoughts on Grimace. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2015, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-ronald-mcdonalds-garment/725861/27 "2015-07-25T21:55:31Z")
> [@psychonaut](#): > > Check out some of the old McDonald’s TV commercials on YouTube. In some of them, the red and white sleeves don’t seem to be connected to the yellow jumpsuit. Okay, point taken. Under the circs, I’m inclined to think of it as a sort of romper. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-ronald-mcdonalds-garment/725861.md?page=1)