Blouse, knickers and jumper retain their archaic names in England. In America we call them shirt, panties and sweater.
Trousers became pants.
they were cutoffs. initially purposely and skillfully frayed. maybe later also spot or totally bleached. later maybe with strategic holes.
hot pants
Seems like women now wear tops , not shirts or blouses.
Pedal pushers became Capri’s and I think now they are called cropz or something like that. Ladies pants cut off abaout 4" above the ankles.
Aye, the hot pants.
I thought “Daisy Dukes” were specifically jean/denim short shorts, whereas hot pants were any very short shorts.
I’m partial to Carhartt Work Dungarees, which are basically full-leg denim carpenter’s pants. Carhartt reserves the name dungaree for their loosest fit; the rest are just jeans.
And what do you wear with a pant? A shoe. I like picturing Stacy London hopping around on one high heel.
That some 6-foot-5 Hulk who, using his teeth, pulls buses for a living through blinding snow now wears a hoodie, not a hood . . . well, I suppose I wouldn’t say anything.
Come to think of it, I don’t know what that means. And I’m almost 50.
I have an impression of heavy work wear, perhaps even something like hip waders, but the word seems extremely archaic, like something my grandfather might have used.
Fascinating. That site makes me want to go riding through the streets yelling, “The British are coming!” Or possibly go riding through the streets imploring people to uphold the honour of the King. (As a Canadian of British descent, I am somewhat conflicted here.)
Does anyone else remember sweatsacks?
I’ll admit the first thing I thought of when I first heard the word dungarees was…dung. :rolleyes: Like maybe you wore them to clean up barns or muck stables.
The word dungaree is originally Hindi, though, and was a kind of heavy sailcloth originating in India.
Old jeans cut off to very short lengths were simply “very short cutoffs”. “Short shorts”, by contrast, were (usually) of some other material than denim and had a finished hem. Gym and running shorts, which in those days could be equally short for both men and women, were yet another category that didn’t really come under the heading short shorts.
sneakers—>tennis shoes—>athletic shoes
We were* all *British. The cry would have been, “The Regulars are coming!” or perhaps “Redcoats.”
Photo of me, my wife and daughter HERE. My stuff is from Jas. Townsend. My wife made her dress, though you can’t see much of it. Our daughter’s glasses are ALL WRONG, so fellow reenactors, don’t get judgey.
And me in my wool coat HERE.
The way I have been taught is that “shirt”, too, is a loan from Scandinavian when the pronunciation, and meaning, had changed.
“Don we now our gay apparel” doesn’t mean what it once did.
What used to be called “clam diggers” or “pedal pushers” we called “knickers” as a kid, now they’re “capris”.
I wore gauchos when I was 7/8 (early 1980s) - it seems they’re called “culottes” now, and I never see them anymore.