# Name this garment **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 6, 2007, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-garment/425369 "2007-11-06T02:08:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![reea41](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c57346/32.png) [@reea41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reea41)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-garment/425369/21 "2007-11-06T09:22:43Z")
maybe it is ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-garment/425369/22 "2007-11-06T10:10:18Z")
[QUOTE=Maastricht] A lot of 70’s fashion was inspired by a notion of “medieval”. That vest and those big buckles have a Robin Hood-as-seen-on-TV-air to them. Is there an expert on medieval fashion around that can tell us if such garments actually existed and what they were called? The Medieval Dutch word for a vest worn as outer layer would be "[wambuis](http://cultuurwijzer.nl/www.cultuurwijs.nl/sites/nwc.rijksmuseumamsterdam/contents/i000705/tootschoenen.jpg) ". [/QUOTE] I’m no expert, but I think “jerkin” would probably be the word in English, though that usually implies leather, I believe. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-garment/425369/23 "2007-11-06T12:48:48Z")
\*Jerkin \*is right - they aren’t necessarily leather. Ideally worn over the doublet (jacket), but can be worn over just the shirt. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-garment/425369/24 "2007-11-06T14:23:18Z")
[QUOTE=MrDibble] \*Jerkin \*is right - they aren’t necessarily leather. Ideally worn over the doublet (jacket), but can be worn over just the shirt. [/QUOTE] Yeah, but no self respecting medieval person would be caught dead in _that_. And these are people who walked around in pants with none of the essential _pant_ parts. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-garment/425369/25 "2007-11-06T14:52:04Z")
[QUOTE=psychonaut] Really? Mr. Roper almost always wore a plain shirt and a cardigan. I never saw anything remotely effeminate about his clothes. [/QUOTE] I wonder if **WhyNot** was momentarily confusing Mr. Roper (Norman Fell) and Mr. Furley (Don Knotts). Mr. Roper’s clothes were pretty normal and boring, while Mr. Furley’s were quite flamboyant (he erroneously considered himself a ladies’ man). ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-garment/425369/26 "2007-11-06T15:20:16Z")
[QUOTE=Scarlett67] I wonder if **WhyNot** was momentarily confusing Mr. Roper (Norman Fell) and Mr. Furley (Don Knotts). Mr. Roper’s clothes were pretty normal and boring, while Mr. Furley’s were quite flamboyant (he erroneously considered himself a ladies’ man). [/QUOTE] Yep, I think I was/am. Sorry, I was born in '74. ---
**Author:** ![chrissysissystar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5e9695/32.png) [@chrissysissystar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrissysissystar)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-garment/425369/27 "2007-11-06T18:16:48Z")
[QUOTE=Lynn Bodoni] Oh yes…I believe (though I’m not sure) that leisure suits were mostly made of doubleknit polyester. [/QUOTE] Oh yes they were. I distinctly remember one that my Mom (an accomplished home sewer) made for my Dad that he wore WELL into the 80’s. I’m pretty sure Mom tossed it out of despair that he still insisted on wearing it. ---
**Author:** ![parsnip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parsnip/32/4564_2.png) [@parsnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/parsnip)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-garment/425369/28 "2007-11-06T18:43:27Z")
What Mr. Furley is wearing is a “groovy vest”. Just the thing for trying to score at the Regal Beagle. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-garment/425369/29 "2007-11-06T19:45:49Z")
[QUOTE=psychonaut] (I made the screen capture myself from the Season 6 DVD.) [/QUOTE] I can’t decide whether to applaud you for your efforts in the fight against ignorance or mock you for your ownership of a Three’s Company DVD. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tool_of_the_Conspiracy)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-garment/425369/30 "2007-11-06T23:02:55Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] I can’t decide whether to applaud you for your efforts in the fight against ignorance or mock you for your ownership of a Three’s Company DVD. 😛 [/QUOTE] A _Three’s Company_ DVD? I’m guessing he has six seasons’ worth. ---
**Author:** ![PuddingCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b4bc9f/32.png) [@PuddingCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PuddingCat)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-garment/425369/31 "2007-11-07T11:58:57Z")
Isn’t it a jerkin? tim ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2007, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-garment/425369/32 "2007-11-22T04:52:52Z")
[QUOTE=trmatthe] Isn’t it a jerkin? tim [/QUOTE] Back 'n forth! ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2007, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-garment/425369/33 "2007-11-22T13:26:24Z")
[QUOTE=trmatthe] Isn’t it a jerkin? tim [/QUOTE] Like a motherfucker. (Oh, SDMB memes. How I love you, and hate you.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-garment/425369.md?page=1)