Oh. She always struck me as a snob. But maybe a different kind of snob than I thought. Or maybe I'm just prejudiced because of her accent.
Announcement
Collapse
No announcement yet.
Anyone spot themselves in these?
Collapse
X
-
Originally posted by ad hoc View PostI have needed a dinner jacket once in my life, for a wedding. I rented one, obviously. I genuinely don't ever encounter events that require them.
Comment
-
It's funny how different American and British English are in this area. "Sport coat" is an unknown expression in the UK as far as I know. But I remember vividly the only previous time I've encountered the term, namely about 35 years ago in a book of Peanuts cartoons, when Linus foolishly gives his security blanket to Snoopy to look after, and Snoopy makes a "sport coat" out of it.
Comment
-
I stand to be corrected by anyone who pays more attention to clothes than I do (i.e. anyone), but I believe the British equivalent is "sports jacket", and that the distinction between "sports jacket" and "blazer" is only that the latter generally connotes some sort of institutional colours, e.g. a school blazer, a club blazer etc.
Comment
-
Originally posted by Vicarious Thrillseeker View PostA little earlier. his is Nina Mary Benita Douglas-Hamilton (née Poore), Duchess of Hamilton, photographed in 1926. Wife of the 13th Duke of Hamilton.
Her wiki page has a considerably kinder picture.
Her husband seems to be a case study in the early twentieth century decline of the great estates.Last edited by The Awesome Berbaslug!!!; 17-09-2018, 20:36.
Comment
-
Originally posted by ad hoc View PostDo they happen at places like Durham and St Andrews?)
The Grad Ball was great, fantastic night out to celebrate the end of five years in St Andrews. It went on into the wee small hours and, StA being that far north, went for a walk along the beach at 5am, watching the sun rise and feeling the hangover start to creep up on me, realising that this was it and I had to be back in Hayes and working at the Excelsior in two days' time. Arse.
Comment
-
Originally posted by Evariste Euler Gauss View PostI stand to be corrected by anyone who pays more attention to clothes than I do (i.e. anyone), but I believe the British equivalent is "sports jacket", and that the distinction between "sports jacket" and "blazer" is only that the latter generally connotes some sort of institutional colours, e.g. a school blazer, a club blazer etc.
I thought the only thing that made a jacket a blazer is that it had shiny buttons, but the origin of the term was brightly colored jackets worn by rowing clubs, etc.
As a kid, I was always confused by the expression “sports jacket” because I couldn’t imagine a garment less-suited to wearing while playing sports which, to me, meant baseball, football, basketball, hockey, and soccer. Of course, I didn’t understand the history of upper-class sporting pursuits.
Either way, I’m referring to a jacket that is cut pretty much the same as the jacket for a suit but isn’t part of a suit.
Comment
Comment