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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!?

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Showy · 04/12/2013 19:34

You're not being unreasonable at all. Just wrong. It's an important distinction.

MsJupiterJones · 04/12/2013 19:36

This is a great thread. FWIW I call bodysuits babygros and sleepsuits sleepsuits so I am on the OP's side but have heard babygros used for sleepsuits so thought it was a general baby clothing term. Vests to me are only sleeveless things. So a sleeveless bodysuit could be called a vest babygro. I hope that's clear.

However I have two additional issues to throw into the mix:

Adult onesies are the equivalent of sleepsuits but (I believe) in the US and Canada, baby onesies are actually bodysuits. Or babygros. Or vests, if you must.

The plural of babygro is obviously babygros but it looks very ugly and unnatural.

XiCi · 04/12/2013 19:36

Christ OP, I hope you're not being serious. If you are I suggest you visit your GP with a view to getting some valium/beta blockers.

How many people have to tell you you babygros have feet and baby vests have poppers?

pianodoodle · 04/12/2013 19:42

Actually the garment OP describes as a vest is in fact, a simmet Grin

fusspot66 · 04/12/2013 19:48

And a little tip for the dimmer baby owners. Those envelope necks are so you can remove the vest downwards over the nappy when baby has has a poo-splosion. Keeps it off their faces. N.B a really skilful baby can poo right up to their chin and ears. Hope that helps Grin

2Tinsellytocare · 04/12/2013 19:50

It's a baby vest/body suit

ShreddedHoops · 04/12/2013 19:50

I think your confusion stems from the Aussie meaning of a 'onesie' being a baby vest, ie the thing with poppers. So you're totally upside down not just geographically

But YABU to be confused - I found it all massively annoying and confusing at first.

RubberBaubles · 04/12/2013 19:59

Just checking that you are aware that vests have an envelope neckline so that when they have exploding poo all up their back, you can take the vest down over their legs to remove it so you don't get poo in their hair.

RubberBaubles · 04/12/2013 20:00

Cross post Xmas Blush

DeckTheHallsWithBoughsOfHorry · 04/12/2013 20:07

OP is pg so cannot be U.

She is, however and alas, wrong. Babygros necessarily have legs and almost certainly feet.

sherazade · 04/12/2013 20:10

a quick google for baby vests results in all the major retailers pages for vests with the poppers that are classified under 'bodysuits' not babygrows

BatmanLovesRobins · 04/12/2013 20:11

I didn't know that about envelope necks until my youngest was 7 Xmas Sad

I've told every pg person I've met since!

hiddenhome · 04/12/2013 20:18

Bloody furriners interferin' with our terminology.

Oodmaiden · 04/12/2013 20:23

"the bloody DM is on my side"

Oh, well obviously you can't believe anything you read in the DM!!!

hiddenhome · 04/12/2013 20:27

Everyone who writes for the DM is over 55 and male, so they know nowt. Any women they do have writing for them are heavily controlled and told what to write by the men.

Everyone knows this Hmm

girliefriend · 04/12/2013 20:36

What does gavel mean? Confused

This did confuse me a bit before I had dd but it is mandatory to put a baby vest (the ones that you think are called baby gro's that don't have long sleeves or legs) on a baby no matter what the weather or what you are doing. Wink

You then depending on what you like either put an actual baby gro over the top or a cute baby outfit.

HTH.

missshallot · 04/12/2013 20:37

"And a little tip for the dimmer baby owners. Those envelope necks are so you can remove the vest downwards over the nappy when baby has has a poo-splosion. Keeps it off their faces."

Is this true??? Shock I thought it was so that you could get it over their heads more easily? Blush

I can't believe that after 2 children I wasn't aware of that - would have saved me hours of poopy vest wrestling........

jamdonut · 04/12/2013 20:53

Oh my goodness!

When I had my third child, 13 and a half years ago, a bodysuit was a vest with the poppers at the crotch.

Vests and bodysuits sometimes had envelope necks to make it easier to get it over their delicate little heads . I've never thought of pulling them downwards!! I don't think anyone I know knows that either?!

And a Babygro was a a brand name (like Hoover for all vacuum cleaners!) for all-in-one long-sleeved sleepsuits.

RubberBaubles · 04/12/2013 20:53

I thought it was common knowledge until coming here. I knew about the envelope necks when I was a child.

DoJo · 04/12/2013 20:59

So who's up for describing a romper to me then...? Grin

DeckTheHallsWithBonesAndSkully · 04/12/2013 21:02

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Heartbrokenmum73 · 04/12/2013 21:03

I call babygro's 'sleepsuits'.

But yes, vests are the underthings that go under the 'sleepsuit'. They can have short sleeves or long sleeves (but they're hard to get hold of) or be sleeveless.

DeckTheHallsWithBonesAndSkully · 04/12/2013 21:03

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Featherbag · 04/12/2013 21:10

OP you are wrong wrong wrongitty-wrong!

IneedAwittierNickname · 04/12/2013 21:15

I've had 2 children and never knew that about envelope necks! Why why why did my mum (whos had 3, and mil who's had 5) never tell me!

Mind you, I've never got poo on their faces/heads even after a poosplosion!

Vests have no legs.
Baby grows have legs, often feet but not always.
Rompers have short arms and legs.