[HPFGU-OTChatter] Brit-Speak: clothing

[Kathryn Cawte]

>
> {Kathryn Cawte wrote}:
> | A jumper is what Americans call a sweater.
>
> {Lee}:
> Okay, I haven't read through all the stuff here, so my query may have been
> answered; if so, just pop me a note off list.
>
> If a jumper is an American sweater, then what do the Brits call the
> sleeveless dress-like garment under which one might wear a long-sleeved
> blouse?  This is what we call a jumper...or used to when I was about
twenty
> or thirty years younger. :-)
> >
>
>
K

A Pinafore or pinafore dress I should think. Apparently a pinafore is also
an apron that has a top rather than just covering from the waist down
(that's what my father says anyway, personally I'd just call it an apron)

K