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Original poster

you lot confusing me for YEARS by talking about 'vests' for babies when you mean babygros!

118 replies

SaltyGoodness · 04/12/2013 18:08

A vest (or singlet) is THIS

If it has SLEEVES it's a T-shirt

If it has POPPERS at the crotch it's a fucking babygro. Or a onesie, if you must. NOT a fucking VEST.

I am so pissed off that the penny has only just dropped now. You've been confusing me for years on this. Particularly as adults wear vests and in that context it doesn't have bloody poppers at the crotch now, does it!?

OP posts:
mumofweeboys · 04/12/2013 18:42

Mothercare call vests with poppers 'bodysuits'

TheRaniOfYawn · 04/12/2013 18:43

YABVU, OP.

ditavonteesed · 04/12/2013 18:47

I am inexpicably enraged by this. of course it is a vest, it is worn as an undergarment, a vest is an undergarment covering the torso. A babygrow is an outer garment and covers the whole body.

HouseAtreides · 04/12/2013 18:48

A vest for a child or adult has no poppers
A vest for a baby has poppers
A babygro has legs
Thus it has ever been in the UK

VivaLeBeaver · 04/12/2013 18:48

I'm a midwife and have dressed thousands of babies in vests (with poppers at the crotch) and in babygros/sleepsuits (arms, legs, feet).

Sorry, but you're wrong.

HouseAtreides · 04/12/2013 18:50

And...
having the same name for different things does not mean they must be the same thing. Shoes for humans and horses are both called shoes, but we don't keep them on with nails. :)

Original poster
SaltyGoodness · 04/12/2013 18:51

I have just had a thorough look through all the baby crap I have lying ready for my PFB. There is not ONE thing with poppers at the crotch that is labelled as a 'vest' - they're all called bodysuits/baby grows etc.

I was fretting needlessly about all these threads saying 'you need shitloads of vests!' when I had tons of the blasted things all along Xmas Biscuit

OP posts:
caramelwaffle · 04/12/2013 18:53

I love this thread. That's all.

pianodoodle · 04/12/2013 18:53

Baby vests have poppers at the crotch.

Any packet I've ever bought says vests on the front, whether long sleeved or short sleeved.

Baby gro/sleepy suit/whatever goes over the top.

Minnieisthedevilmouse · 04/12/2013 18:55

To keep their stumps clear?

WTAF are you now talking about?

It's vests.

AmeliaToppingLovesShopping · 04/12/2013 18:56

An adult vest with poppers is called a bodysuit. They can have any length sleeve. These were fashionable in the mid 90s and have been again recently. Some times they are worn under clothes and some times as the only top.

A baby version can either be called a bodysuit or a vest. They are pretty much the same thing just one is a bit bigger than the other.

At no point has the adult version been called a babygrow so this means that the baby version cannot be a babygrow either.

DragonMamma · 04/12/2013 18:58

Vests/bodysuits - no legs
Babygros - legs

The word vest has been said so many times it's starting to look funny to me.

Original poster
SaltyGoodness · 04/12/2013 19:05

GAH!!!! Researching online for further proof - AS IF ANY WERE NEEDED that I am right - but the bloody DM is on my side. See it's a a babygro not a fucking vest. In their charming DM fashion, they are naming that item of clothing as a babygro. So there.

Pyrrhic fucking victory or what.

If this is right, I frankly would rather be wrong.

but I am right

Goodnight all.

OP posts:
maras2 · 04/12/2013 19:06

In the Maras vernacular an all in one sleepsuit is a Pogie.A vest is a vest. Pogie is named after a charecter from Pogles Wood.But a vest is still a sodding vest.

Nanny0gg · 04/12/2013 19:07

You are very, very wrong.

TooTabooHasBigShinyBaubles · 04/12/2013 19:12

Wha....?

OP, chill Cake

Anybody else think 'vest' looks like a non-word now? Grin

WankingInAWinterWonderland · 04/12/2013 19:13

It's a baby vest with poppers. A vest.

I think the poppers stop around aged 24 months or something. Xmas Confused

pianodoodle · 04/12/2013 19:13

I think you should have a wee lie down Grin

pianodoodle · 04/12/2013 19:15

think the poppers stop around aged 24 months or something.

I've been able to get them up to age 3 so far though they start getting rarer after that :)

T100 · 04/12/2013 19:17

Op how can everyone be wrong? If you feel uncomfortable calling it a vest call it a bodysuit rhen. But don't call it a babygro as people will not understand you and think you're being stupid.

WankingInAWinterWonderland · 04/12/2013 19:20

Then they start trying the poppers again when they start partying Xmas Shock

Oh Sorry different poppers

snuffykins · 04/12/2013 19:21

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_bodysuit

Read down to see how wrong you are.

QuintessentialShadows · 04/12/2013 19:24

yeah yeah, and you are also taking a walk only wearing thongs down there, so jog on .... Wink

KrabbyPatty · 04/12/2013 19:25

You are quite, quite wrong op.

Babygros have legs and feet.

Vests go under the babygro or other clothes and can have no sleeves or short sleeves, and, most importantly, no legs.

nosleeptilever · 04/12/2013 19:30

You are all wrong. A shirt without sleeves is a tank top. A Garment with poppers, long sleeves and feet is a Sleeper. This is what they are called in CanadaGrin

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