When I read a book by a yank set in yankonia and the author describes a character thus:
He was wearing a dress shirt, open at the collar
They don't actually mean a dress shirt with studs and pleated front plate do they?*
*or in duxter's case, a light violet shirt with frilly front piece
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They just mean a "shirt" surely
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I have Googled this for you. Apparently it’s a Tuxedo shirt.
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No, they don't. I've fallen foul of this linguistic bastardisation too.
They just mean a collared shirt.
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What we know as a dress shirt, they refer to as a "tuxedo shirt", a tuxedo being what we would call a dinner jacket and trousers.
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Shermans also, rather bizarrely, wear evening dress during the day and have even been known to get married in their "tuxedos".
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It looks great worn under a vest.
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That underrated philosopher Rab C Nesbitt used to wear a string vest under his jacket.
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Over a vest, surely. Button down collar obligatory.
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A "vest" is what Septics call a waistcoat.
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Great pants
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I just think of dress shirts as shirts you can wear with a suit and a tie.
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Make sure the tails cover the fanny though.
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what ducko and PP said
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Suspenders and a dickie. You'll knock 'em dead.
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Ok sport.
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One mildly interesting thing I discovered is that we cannot lay the blame forr the awful word "groomsmen" (usually seen at midday weddings in tuxedos per above) on the septics. Kilverts Diary (a 19thC clergyman near Hay-on-Wye), uses that word.
In spite of which, his diaries are a lovely read of a man truly in love with his work and the people he sserved and the place they lived.
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Hay on Wye remains bloody awful though. And I grew very up close to it (correct side of the border)so feel comfortable in that judgment,
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Dress shirt - a collar that stays down without buttons and no pocket.
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Hay on Wye is bloody lovely.
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Or, in the midwest - a single colour.
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It is set in the mid west jelly, good call
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Another one - what is a "CPA" when used as someone's profession? All I can guess is a patent attorney but that doesnt really fot the context
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Certified accountant.
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Certified public accountant
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well, having been caught out by what the English call a wedding "Breakfast", ye ain't exactly accurate with your own language either.
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I misread that as certified pubic accountant
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Breakfast - first meal of the day
Wedding breakfast - first meal of the marriage.
Not hard.
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CPAs will be busy today …
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Heh @ wang.
My pubic accountant is trying to shave my tax bill.
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still doesn't make any sense.
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I must be getting old. I could not work out what any of this had to do with pubic wigs. (And Wang’s confusion didn’t help matters).
(I now get it, BTW…)
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I think it is from Rory Bremner's Georg W impression, Pete
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