Americans! Please help me with tank tops!!!

[kamik86]

Oooh! I forgot about suspenders! They hold up stockings (hosiery ones) here. Braces are worn by men to keep trousers up. Hose is something you water a lawn with and don't put on your legs. It took me about half an hour to work out what a group of American visiting students at my university were asking me about, trying to find a hose shop (why?!?!?) and then getting into the whole suspenders confusion!!!

Who wears suspenders/braces whichever you call them enough to have a discussion abou them? A belt is normally worn by ment to keep their pants/trousers up.

 

[brooke789]

The Shag is the state dance of SC.

I'm definitely confused by the use of "smart".

 

[redsonja76]

wait, trousers, smart trousers, and jeans.....then what the heck are pants?

 

[Ware Bears]

Knickers!

 

[Stubbette]

Who wears suspenders/braces whichever you call them enough to have a discussion abou them? A belt is normally worn by ment to keep their pants/trousers up.

My friend was looking for a garter belt and hose to wear to a smart dinner. Which took hours as they are called suspenders and stockings over here! When I suggested she meant suspenders, she was thinking of the things old men use to clip to the waistband and go over the shoulders (braces here....). Oh, and just to confuse things, braces are also the things that are used to straighten teeth... well, when us Brits bother to straighten our teeth, that is!!!

I shall make sure to shag on the decks of the ship during the cruise, if that's the done thing!!!

 

[kamik86]

wait, trousers, smart trousers, and jeans.....then what the heck are pants?

In the UK pants are underwear.

In the US they are a catch all for any type of trouser. Trousers is a term only really old people ever seem to use in the US and general means more like dress pants.

Luckily since I mostly wear jeans i can just refer to them as jeans and be ok... although less so for DH as he mostly wears Khakis.

 

[Maddysdaddy]

For me, growing up in Calgary (Canada), a shag was a right after school dance. If it was after supper, then it was called a dance.

I too am from Calgary, and have never heard the word "shag" used in any other way than how the Brits use it. Trust me, if I was ever offered an after-school shag when I was much MUCH younger, I would have been sorely disappointed if I ended up at a school dance.

 

[Imahikergirl]

I too am from Calgary, and have never heard the word "shag" used in any other way than how the Brits use it. Trust me, if I was ever offered an after-school shag when I was much MUCH younger, I would have been sorely disappointed if I ended up at a school dance.

I actually found a blog where a girl from Calgary was talking about her after-school dances called a shag. Maybe I'm a little older than you? Both the blogger and I were both in school in the 80s. Hard to say. https://throwbackthree.wordpress.com/2016/02/18/shagadelic/

 

[Maddysdaddy]

I actually found a blog where a girl from Calgary was talking about her after-school dances called a shag. Maybe I'm a little older than you? Both the blogger and I were both in school in the 80s. Hard to say. https://throwbackthree.wordpress.com/2016/02/18/shagadelic/

My junior high/high school years were in the 80's as well, so not sure it's an age thing. It's funny how even people living in the same city can be separated by language - your mind goes to 'dance' and mine goes to 'Austin Powers'...

 

[Churchladychurchlady]

My junior high/high school years were in the 80's as well, so not sure it's an age thing. It's funny how even people living in the same city can be separated by language - your mind goes to 'dance' and mine goes to 'Austin Powers'...

^ What he said!