Are tank tops everyday wear?

[EagleOnTheWall]

I have one which my mother once bought for me. I haven't worn in a long time and I wore it today, and I hate to say, I kind of like it.

Is it a middle aged thing? Am I turning into my mother? Are they acceptable everyday wear (to the office?) or something best confined to one's own home?

I take it you purposefully ignore all reference to fashion on any media? Tank tops are everywhere. (Only maybe taking a rest because of the current temperatures.)

So yes, fashionable middle aged people may well be wearing them, if they like them. Along with the fashionable young, and elderly.

I love tank tops and I've been wearing them for a good couple of years. I don't think I would count as middle aged any more though so I can't answer that question.

I like tank tops, but the weather is usually either too warm or too cold for them.

What are you all describing? A knitted sleeveless cardigan/jumper?

If so, where is selling good ones? I want one for the autumn.

Like this:
www.johnlewis.com/sweaty-betty-soft-flow-studio-tank-top/p111424632

@Bailiwitch 😂 I don't purposefully avoid it, I'm just oblivious, wouldn't have a clue where to look!

Aah that’s not a tank top as I know it. That’s a vest top.

Anyway, what was the question?

That’s not what I think of when you say tank top - that just looks like a vest style top to me.

Checked the question, yes it’s everyday wear if you like that style

That's just a vest top. These are tank tops vest - Wikipedia share.google/heeq4X1ZmsKwVeEpF Sweater vest - Wikipedia share.google/heeq4X1ZmsKwVeEpF

Oh we’ve had this argument many times on the Parisienne thread. Tank tops are knitted and yes, sleeveless. Accept no imitations.

While it could be every day wear if you’re a casual dresser it’s really not office appropriate.

Idk why people are saying it’s not a tank top, tank tops are wider strap sleeveless vest tops. Vests have thinner straps and the knitted ones people are talking about are sweater vests.

That’s just a sleeveless t shirt, @EagleOnTheWall.

These are tank tops:

& Daughter

Cos

Margaret Howell

Essentially it should be a sleeveless knitted garment that can be worn either over a shirt or on its own.

They really are not!

Edited to say sorry to @Bailiwitch- I was responding to the previous poster who called them sweater vests

@EagleOnTheWall

this a tank top from days of yore😄

Well I wouldn’t describe that as a tank top but I think lots of people are wearing sleeveless stuff recently. Some colleagues do, older and younger, some with long sleeve tops underneath and some without.
I wouldn’t wear one because I don’t like my bingo wings on display and I feel like i would feel bulky with a layer underneath.
So yes of course I think they’re ever day wear if you like them!

Not in the UK. A sweater vest is a term I have only ever heard on Friends. A tank top is very much a knitted, sleeveless jumper.

The picture is of a sleeveless top. Not what I'd call a vest.

It took me years to realise that in the episode of Friends on the morning of Monica and Chandler's wedding when he is just rediscovered and Rachel has to pretend that rather than it being Chandler they can't find but only his vest that they were referring to his waistcoat. That made much more sense as something that would actually matter as something missing. I thought they meant an actual vest. A white, sleeveless undergarment. Had no idea in the US a vest is a waistcoat.

sweater vests..?

You’re obviously not as old as me, I wore a tank top as they were known in the 70’s and that’s what they’ll always be to me! Non of this modern sweater vest nonsense 😄

I think there is a British/US discrepancy in the name. Americans call these tank tops but I would call it a vest (I call them vests regardless of strap width). A tank top is a looser, knitted version which is worn over a long sleeved shirt.

I wear vest tops loads. I work in fitness so it is my work ‘uniform’, and with the current temperatures, I am wearing them for casual wear too (but cotton ones not the man-made fibre gym tops).

And to make it more confusing, Americans use the word vest for what we know as a waistcoat.

Think The Duke of Windsor (the 1930s edition) or Slade. Or, if you prefer, Gilbert O’Sullivan.

Sorry, I see that point was already made! This is how I see it:

Sweater vest (US) = Tank top (UK)

Tank top (US) = Vest (UK)

Vest (US) = Waistcoat (UK)

Waistcoat (US) = ???

I wonder if the posters using the ‘US’ terms are younger. My DD would probably say ‘sweater vest’ and ‘tank’ (for a vest). She is 20 and uses lots of American English ‘cause internet and US telly shows.

Tank tops are any sleeveless top

a cursory google brings up what they are and they are typically a t-shirt with no sleeves in summer and a lightweight knit in cooler months to wear over things. Although these are often called a knitted vest

If you look online at shops they call t-shirts with no sleeves tank tops