Which word for sweater do you prefer?

[SHOWSOMECLASS]

Similar to soda, pop, carbonated beverage, fountain drink, soft drink. It would seem we all to adapt to the local colloquiallism.

 

[nice hat dude!]

As was I and this is my favorite

So Bobby Hull,Stan Makita and Pat Quinn fan to bad they couldn't win a cup back then?Just to let you boys know I'm over the 50year old mark myself.

 

[Hal]

In general, "jumper" = UK, "sweater" = USA. Perhaps "pullover" is the word with the most general meaning on this island.
"Jumper" many years ago was a woman's garment in the UK but is now used for knitwear worn by both sexes. "Sweater vest" (USA) is an expression unknown in the UK; the garment is usually known as a short-sleeved pullover or slipover (UK). "Jersey" is old-fashioned usage for "jumper"; the word is of course the name of one of the Channel Islands on which a specific style was developed (as it also was on the island of Guernsey). Also, one normally talks of a cricket sweater and a rugby or a football jersey. It is complicated, and I am certainly generalising. People from other parts of the UK than I may well use different words.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Sweater is short for sweatshirt, right? So originally probably more of a sports-type jumper.

Jumper, cardigan (jumper w/ buttons) and tank top (sleeveless jumper) for me.

bk

 

[Methuselah]

I agree with both Baron Kurtz & The Sultans of Ping FC

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[Derek Cavin]

Interesting song (for what I could understand).

 

[ZootPsycho]

So many synonyms make searches so tedious...

Surprisingly in Spanish we don't have a word for them! We use loan words like 'jersey' (pronounced 'hersEi') or 'sueter' (adaptation of 'sweater'). In Seville they use the word 'chaleco' which in the rest of the country means 'vest' or 'waistcoat', that is an sleeveless garment.

 

[JonnyO]

Down here pretty much any heavy knit garment is called a sweater. Where I come from originally, this is also properly called a sweater

What about these sweaters? Wish they played like they used to.

 

[nice hat dude!]

What about these sweaters? Wish they played like they used to.

Well not so bad yes the Islanders haven't won for some time but the Rangers managed to get one with Messier and company.Probably not the same but it's still a NY team.

 

[Dave E]

Jumper for me here in the UK, and my Aussie wife would say the same. I do understand the other alternatives, though (whereas 'pants' for 'trousers' always makes me pause - 'pants' are underwear in the UK).

What is a sweater vest, though? I think it's a thing I'd call a tank top and associate inextricably with the 1970s.

 

[nice hat dude!]

Jumper for me here in the UK, and my Aussie wife would say the same. I do understand the other alternatives, though (whereas 'pants' for 'trousers' always makes me pause - 'pants' are underwear in the UK).

What is a sweater vest, though? I think it's a thing I'd call a tank top and associate inextricably with the 1970s.

It's basically a pullover sweater without arms,ala vest

 

[nice hat dude!]

It's basically a pullover sweater without arms,ala vest

 

[Dave E]

Yep, that's what I'd call a tank top.

 

[galopede]

Yep, that's what I'd call a tank top.

I wouldn't! Tank Top is far too American for this Brit. Sleeveless jumper, I've always known them as.

No offence meant to any American readers!

Gareth

 

[Cobden]

I generally use jumper for sleeved and sleeveless...things...

 

[nice hat dude!]

I wouldn't! Tank Top is far too American for this Brit. Sleeveless jumper, I've always known them as.

No offence meant to any American readers!

Gareth

I'm positive that you're not going to offend anyone it's only a thread about what name you prefer to call an item by,you want to get into posts that get people riled try the gun posts or proper vintage wear posts they're
always interesting.(haha)

 

[Dave E]

I wouldn't! Tank Top is far too American for this Brit. Sleeveless jumper, I've always known them as.

No offence meant to any American readers!

Gareth

Really? When I was growing up in the 70s I definitely remember everyone calling them tank tops. Could have varied where you were in the UK, though.

 

[ZootPsycho]

Weren't 'tank tops' the undershirts that males used to wear for swimming in water tanks up to the fifties or so?

 

[Hal]

I wouldn't! Tank Top is far too American for this Brit. Sleeveless jumper, I've always known them as. No offence meant to any American readers!
Gareth

Nor would I! Sleeveless pullover or slipover is the usual term.
DavidE - I mentioned that "sweater vest" was unknown in the UK in an earlier posting in this thread.
I don't know whether "tank top" is of American provenance - it is certainly a 1970s term for a sleeveless pullover shaped like a singlet, but on this island the sleeveless pullover long antedated the term.

 

[DAJE]

OK, to me (Australian) a vest is what Yanks are calling a "sweater vest", and a singlet is what yanks are calling a "tank top". Sometimes Brits call singlets "vests" just to increase the confusion.

What Yanks (and sometimes others) call "vests" are waistcoats. Easy way to determine what a waistcoat is: does it have buttons? It's a waistcoat. No buttons? Vest. Easy.

Yes, there are knitted garments that have button-up fronts; they're called cardigans and there's probably a correct name for a sleeveless cardy but it's not in my vocabulary and "sleeveless cardigan" seems to cover it well enough.