20 Apr
1999
20 Apr
'99
8:20 a.m.
Well I was at
an American run management course last year in Newcastle. One
of the (male) attendees made the comment that he was cold and that he was
going to get a jumper. This caused a hysterical reaction by one of the
female presenters - apparently from her part of the USA a jumper is a dress!
Farzino, a "jumper" is a dress anywhere in the US, specifically a
dress of a style rarely worn once puberty kicks in. Possibly the
standardisation of that nomenclature resulted from the fact that
that's what was used in the old Sears-Roebuck catalogs that were
distributed nationwide.