Is “joggers” twatty?

[Alsocalledsophie]

I recently posted about changing into joggers when I come home after work. Another poster pulled me and others up on the use of the word “joggers,” labelling it “twatty.” I’m surprised as I thought this was fairly standard language at this point 🤔

IABU: joggers is twatty
YANBU: joggers is standard language, definitely not twatty

It was the featuring elasticized ankles that made me wonder.

Not round by me their all trackies.

wtf?!?!

Oh and I hate the word “snacking”

Where do you stand on "gutties" ?

oh my lord I had to google that one 😂

They're daps! I've had posts deleted by MN for using a different word for them.

Yep, definitely daps.

ohh curious to know what the offending word was now 😂 Also had to google daps! I can't think of a specific term for those kind of shoes, we didn't really use them as a standard PE/Gym shoe though like the way British schools seemed to. I think most Irish people would just call all running/training type shoes "runners" Maybe some other Irish person can think of a name specifically for that type of shoe but I can't!

"Gutties" is a Norn Iron thing...I believe from the old fashioned canvas school PE "pumps" which had gutta-percha (rubber) soles.

FWIW, I'm in the USA where they would typically be called sweatpants, but I have been seeing "joggers" advertised a lot recently. As someone said above it usually indicates tapered legs and shaped cuffs (rather than loose or the traditional simple elastic at the bottom). I wouldn't say the term is perceived as upscale or pretentious even in a US context, though (even SHEIN sell "joggers" now).

(But a "typical" American probably WOULD probably consider "twatty" affected, and possibly misogynist.)

@MyMilchick ,What is a Plimsoll line?

Apparently there was a foot fetishist troll.

ah it said Scottish when i googled it but there's a lot of Scottish influence in the NI dialect I think

😂 thanks

I'd call them joggers (West Midlands).

I do remember people using the term "trackie bums' for them when I was at school. 'I had to put my trackie bums on' etc.

Anyone else remember that term?

Feel mild nostalgia for it now....

Joggers is a perfectly normal word for them. As is trackie bottoms for tracksuit bottoms (though tbh I think I only started calling them that because of that arctic monkeys song)

My bloke calls his joggers his 'lazy trousers' which seems more accurate to me actually

YANBtwatty

They are Joggers where I am (midlands)

I'm in my joggers right now, av it

No, not at all twatty. In fact I call them joggy bottoms. When my Dp is getting the kids ready I’ll say just shove some joggy bottoms on them.

Iv never called them trackies. To me that’s a full tracksuit.

Come again? How can pants do that?

Haha Mumsnet does make me laugh.

Some right grumps on here sometimes.

Personally I think saying that the word "joggers" is twatty is rather twatty but hey ho🤷‍♀️

Is that Glasgow?

Joggers or trackies here in Yorkshire! Definitely not twatty.

I'm on the fence here. I do call them joggers but do feel like a twat when I say it 🤣🤣. I think we called them jogging bottoms or jogger bottoms growing up. I'm from Norn Iron so definitely had the gutties.

I think that's different to 'joggers'