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Creative => Customs Gallery => Topic started by: cheng on March 06, 2013, 01:20:48
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a sucessful prototype of a simple custom-vest for my Asians (even samurai leaders wear one over their armour)...with a high nape/collar(?) behind but no collars/lapels in front.
btw...what do westerners call these vests?
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a sucessful prototype of a simple custom-vest for my Asians (even samurai leaders wear one over their armour)...with a high nape/collar(?) behind but no collars/lapels in front.
btw...what do westerners call these vests?
A neat idea.
You could use "nape" or "collar", cheng, the first describing where it is high. "Lapels" is right for the front.
In the west there is a thing called a gilette or gillette or gilete (I don't know the correct spelling and trying to search for images using any of these words just brings up lots of pictures of razors and shaving foam!), which is a lightly padded, sleeveless jacket for outdoor wear. The pronounciation seems to be either with a soft g as in "general" or a hard g as in "gulp".
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thanks for the clarification, Gordon!
I couldnt find the term or photo too...I assume you meant this ;)
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thanks for the clarification, Gordon!
I couldnt find the term or photo too...I assume you meant this ;)
Yes, that's the type.
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In the west there is a thing called a gilette or gillette or gilete (I don't know the correct spelling and trying to search for images using any of these words just brings up lots of pictures of razors and shaving foam!)
That's because it's spelt gilet Gordon :lol:
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We call that a windbreaker over here. Maybe because it's easier to spell. :P
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That's because it's spelt gilet Gordon :lol:
Thanks, Elaine.
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Liking that figure, nice idea for the vest :)
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thanks DrDalek6....I made another one last night, will show shortly.
and Elaine, thanks too....we have to keep learning ;)
bb, I've heard of the term 'windbreaker' but cant help relating that to breaking wind :lol:
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bb, I've heard of the term 'windbreaker' but cant help relating that to breaking wind :lol:
My thought exactly, cheng! ;D
In the UK we used to have a garment called a windcheater which I suppose was in some ways a forerunner of the anorak.
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...In the UK we used to have a garment called a windcheater which I suppose was in some ways a forerunner of the anorak.
I immediately thought of 'wifecheater'(dont ask further :P) and then almost immediately, 'wifebeater' ....isn't there and ant-eater or armadilo-looking animal that sounds something like "anorak", sounds very eskimo ;)
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my second Gilet ;) somehow I still prefer my first one...dont know why :P
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:lol: Yes, I always giggle at the name windbreaker! You know, there is a type of shirt we call a wifebeater, too.
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:lol: Yes, I always giggle at the name windbreaker! You know, there is a type of shirt we call a wifebeater, too.
I find it really interesting to hear different vernacular and colloquial terms for things.
Here, in Western Canada, a "windbreaker" would be a jacket (with sleeves) that is made of a material that will stop the wind from blowing through (generally a plastic or nylon or rip-stop material).
We would just call it a vest here. There might be an adjective that goes along with it such as a "downfilled vest". Gilet would be a French term and while many French terms are used for things, it is one I have never heard of before.
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bb, I searched 'wifebeater shirt' and learnt 2 more things today...we simply call them 'singlets' (the 2nd one being that there's such an option for men ;D)
...btw this is the 'safest' picture to post here (the others are too inappropriate for kids :lol:)
sorry if I'm digressing, myself (I was about to ask you all "why they call 'tank tops'...." :P)
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I immediately thought of 'wifecheater'(dont ask further :P) and then almost immediately, 'wifebeater' ....isn't there and ant-eater or armadilo-looking animal that sounds something like "anorak", sounds very eskimo ;)
You're thinking of the aardvark, cheng. It's a very gentle, placid creature and has never been known to harm a human being, hence the old proverb "Aardvark never hurt anyone"! :lol:
PS: like the other custom.
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thank you and that's right....i often cant recall names :-[
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I prefer the first custom too. I think it's just the color of the second that's wrong. Looks a bit like a life jacket, IMO.
Now: gilet is the French word for cardigan. Though we use cardigan too. A gilet would be knitted wool mostly, with buttons rather than a zip. A sweater or sweat-shirt would have a zip and a hood most of the time; you should hear the French say sweat-shirt, they say sweet-shirt! :lol:
We do have windbreakers that we'd call "coupe-vent".
A gilet buttons up only half way up the chest. 8}
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Cheng, what the guy is wearing in that pic is actually more of a tank top or undershirt. A wifebeater is more like a T-shirt with the sleeves cut off. Chris actually has one (no idea where it came from!), and no, he doesn't beat me. :P
WM, it's becoming more common here to call a light nylon jacket a windbreaker, too. But to my parents' generation, a windbreaker is a vest.
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@cowabounga: so a French gilet is a like the inner piece of a man's 3-piece suit
@bb: I have many wife-beaters then! but only use them to protect myself :P
(btw my favourite game is NBA; in those days they wore what-you-call 'tank-tops' with narrow shoulder straps and now their shoulder-straps are as broad as T shirts but I think they just call them, simply, 'shirts' which make it very difficult for me when asking store assistants if they have any 'what-you-call-those-shirts' 8})
sorry for digressing but I find it very interesting, like WM says....learning different terms from the East, Canada, England & USA :wave:
(the other day I asked a PF if 'wash' is a kind of shirt :P and of course it wasn't :-[)
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Yes Cheng, but in the case of a 3-piece suit, the gilet has no sleeves, whereas most woolen gilets have (then again some don't, of course, why make things simple when you can make them complicated is a French moto).