Brit-Speak: clothing

[justcarol67]

Lee wrote:
<snip>
> > > 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)

(unsigned post):
> I'm an American from New Jersey.....I'm 18 and we call a jumper Over
alls now. You know what farmers wear, or a jumper a jump suit anything
thats a one piece outfit. You know what I'm talking about...lol

Carol:
Well, no, not exactly. Overalls have been called overalls since at
least the 1950s, maybe even the 1930s. A jumper, as Lee said, is a
sleeveless dress worn over a blouse (not necessarily long-sleeved).
Here's a photo to show what she's talking about, though when I was
young, jumpers were knee-length, not mid-calf or longer like this one:

http://www.blair.com/prodimg/image6/w03539f.jpg

Carol