AMERICAN Guesses BRITISH Words and Brands (Funny!)

[@keithevans9544]

For me Gilet is a newish affectation in my younger days it was a "body warmer"

[@dannywlm63]

Correct I had to ask my kids what the hell it was

[@Big-Si2253]

@@dannywlm63 French word.

[@chrissanders1027]

I purchased a gilet for cycling in 1989 and it was sold as a gilet

[@simonrook5743]

Gillet is am old French word for a sleeveless jacket, I know it was in use in the 17 and 18 hundreds.

[@marklegg79]

"Hey kid, did you jump ship?!"

[@grantmason740]

Shelby gets maximum points for having the courage to appear on KZbin, in front of the world. Something I could never do. Well done!

[@AutoAlligator]

Agreed

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

Definitely agreed, Grant! I have very supportive friends and I don't forget that!

[@flumpah]

And Shelby has discerning taste also, by liking The IT crowd (have you tried turning it on and off again ?).

[@dave_h_8742]

Shelby did well but you were struggling lol blaming guy for the window, classic transference. 😉 A Vest is what bruce Willis keeps ending up in in the Die hard films. 😀

[@garypotter1461]

Absolutely. She did pretty well to be fair. Well thought out answers. Good video

[@martynadams2011]

Another vote for ‘never heard of Bills’.

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

Interesting! I've seen them in London and Cambridge, so maybe a SE thing?

[@HyperDaveUK]

@@GirlGoneLondonofficial They seems to be a branch in most proper cities in the UK. (Apart from Newcastle)

[@martynadams2011]

Having checked Google they appear to be mainly in shopping “malls” and such. No wonder I’ve never heard of them.

[@andrewbaker7839]

@@HyperDaveUK Welwyn Garden CIty has a "Bills" and technically speaking, we're not a city. They're OK. Reliable, but in a slightly over-priced and meh sort-of-way. I have "independents" nearby which do better food, for the same or less money. I prefer those.

[@sianchatfield3052]

A vest is a wife beater shirt. You wear them under your clothes in the winter as an extra layer to keep warm

[@paulclarke5933]

A vest is worn by men and women, they come with or without sleeves to keep warm during winter, with sleeves is a thermal vest to keep warmer than a normal vest, A Gilet is commonly known as a body warmer.

[@markpstapley]

Debenhams in an ex-store, it has ceased to be. Bereft of life, it rests in peace.

[@Brakdayton]

Pushing up daisies…

[@lu_shulmu]

Alas, it is pining for the fjords.

[@thespiderspeed]

Debenhams was bought out by the person who owns BooHoo. It went online only.

[@miaschu8175]

@thespiderspeed - It's now a zombie. I'd advocate running away from those things

[@Girl-101]

I loved Debenhams

[@miaschu8175]

A gilet is a body warmer. A vest is an undergarment. They're usually sleeveless.

[@DuartJansen]

It's basically what the Americans call a tanktop... But mostly plain colored and worn underneath a regular shirt.

[@Lazmanarus]

@@DuartJansen Not quite, that would be a singlet - an undervest. A gilet is a quilted (normally) sleeveless bodywarmer.

[@lindapankhurst4513]

The word singlet comes to mind…..!

[@andibing]

B&Q was originally Block & Quayle - the surnames of the founders.

[@richardwani2803]

Fun fact I met Richard block he used to come into the store in Chesterfield

[@tonyollier7098]

How have I lived to almost 70 without knowing that!

[@teresaqureshi6342]

Gilet also known as a body warmer. Trolley also common name for a bag on wheels. A vest is an undergarment

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

Ah ha, I forgot about a trolley being a bag on wheels too. We definitely don't use those in the US as much so that would stump someone!

[@Corialtavi]

I've never heard of a Gilet, I'd call it a body warmer where I live but I'm not a Posh southerner. If someone offered me a Gilet I'd think they were giving me a disposable razor ....

[@CrazyInWeston]

@@Corialtavi I live in the south, I've never heard of "gilet" either. Everyone I know calls it a body warmer.

[@davidfaraday7963]

@@CrazyInWeston Likewise. Despite living in southern UK for my entire life I'd never heard of a gilet either. To me those things are "body warmers".

[@MrRandy269]

Gilet is french, only know posh hunting types use that term... its a body warmer

[@TrevorandThea]

In Die Hard, John McLean spends most of the film wearing a vest… a really, really grubby one! Kippie eye aye, Mother… Oh, and a nice red gilet is what Michael J Fox wears in Back To The Future (it’s from the French word for “waistcoat” which is what we call a formal “vest”, usually worn as part of a three piece suit - confused? You soon will be!).

[@sgtspanky0]

I believe it's commonly called a "wife beater" in parts of the US

[@nicholasjones7312]

Gilet is just the modern name for 1970’s body warmers.

[@crose7412]

Trevor_R Although waistcoat is correctly pronounced "wess cut"!

[@jennetscarborough5145]

@@sgtspanky0 whereas "wife beater" in the UK typically refers to Stella Artois beer.

[@elemar5]

@@jennetscarborough5145 Not in my world. Cheap cider is called 'a bottle of bate the wife'.

[@TheHookahSmokingCaterpillar]

B&Q stands for 'Block & Quayle' the founders of the chain in the late sixties. Also, Lays and Walkers are part of the same company.

[@timglennon6814]

Oh 10/10 for your friend putting herself forward to do the quiz.

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

I agree!!

[@GenialHarryGrout]

A vest, either sleeveless, short sleeved or long sleeved is used mainly to keep you warm. In cold climates wearing layers of clothes is better than wearing the thickest garment you possess.

[@philipmason9537]

A Vest in the U.K. is usually associated with menswear and is also known as a SINGLET. The U.K. vest is worn under the shirt and a Waistcoat is worn over the shirt and under the suit jacket as part of a three piece suit. In the U.K. men’s trousers can be held up with BRACES but in N.America they’re called Suspenders which has a VERY different meaning in the U.K., as different a meaning as Fanny has !!

[@TrevorandThea]

Yes, you seriously do not want to suggest your husband wears suspenders… unless you’re all getting dressed up to go out to the Rocky Horror Show! ;)

[@grahvis]

@@TrevorandThea . Men used to wear suspenders to hold their socks up, they went round the leg just below the knee.

[@philipmason9537]

@@TrevorandThea I’m a guy so I don’t have a husband, thankfully.

[@TrevorandThea]

@@philipmason9537 Lol, I was thinking the advice was more for Kalyn ! ;) :D

[@TrevorandThea]

@@grahvis indeed, gone the way of spats, macassar and snuff boxes as essential items in a man’s wardrobe!

[@duckwhistle]

A vest is a just sleeveless garment, usually worn under your shirt or t-shirt, as an extra layer but also worn on its own in hot weather. For women they can refer to a garment specifically designed as an outer layer, but for men it's normally either sports wear or underwear. Gilet is a French word for what we call a body warmer, that has been popularised in the UK a few years ago by the French Gilets protesters, also referred to as the yellow vests! Because we also call a high visibility sleeveless garment as a vest.

[@stevefrost64]

Anyone else in the UK never heard of Bills, or just me?

[@ruthgrimley7653]

Nope, never heard of it

[@grapeman63]

Me neither.

[@user-mq4kz7qd8x]

Not me

[@TrevorandThea]

Love Bill’s… very yummy food! Maybe it’s a SE England thing rather than other parts of the country?

[@grapeman63]

@@TrevorandThea I'm in Hampshire and I've never heard of them.

[@JenMaxon]

Vest is a piece of underwear - usually lightweight, can be like a t-shirt, doesn't need to have sleeves - and, yes, is used to keep warm in the winter.

[@andrewbaker7839]

Shelby deserves an extra point. We have (had) "Trolleybuses" - these are like trams, except they don't run on rails, but do get their power from overhead cables. The last one ran in the early 1970s, but they were considering them again in Leeds.

[@JenMaxon]

Trolley means something built on wheels used for transporting things

[@alanelesstravelled8218]

@@JenMaxon "Off your trolley" means something completely different.

[@JenMaxon]

@@alanelesstravelled8218 It means you have lost contact with your trolley - it means you're potty. But not sure how that would contradict my definition.

[@davidfaraday7963]

When first introduced trolleybuses were known as "trackless trams". I was interested to note when I visited San Francisco that they have trolleybuses there, but they are single-deckers unlike the British trolleybuses which were, with rare exceptions, double-deckers.

[@wessexdruid5290]

@@JenMaxon It can also mean a wheel attached to a pole - for collecting electrical current. But the first meaning is a wheeled frame for carrying heavy objects, e.g. luggage, at railways stations.

[@markpstapley]

Gilet, from the French. Vest from vestment from clergy. Vests can be sleeved, but are usually sleeveless, and come in many types like the sailor style string vest, through to more conventional ones. They are made for both men and women, but are rarely unisex. They are usually used for layering to keep you warm, but some also wick away perspiration.

[@chrisy8989]

I'd call a Gilet a body warmer.

[@garry-t5056]

Don't know why the KZbin algorithm popped your video into my feed Kalyn but it was fun to watch you testing Shelby and I think she did great. I'm certain I would know less about US brands and stores but it's over twenty years since I last visited America. I will watch a few more of your videos now.

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

Thank you so much for your kind comment and for watching!

[@Lentonist]

Shelby did great! Bill's must be a regional chain as I have never heard of it (from the midlands). I still call a gillet by the far more practical and less pretentious name - body warmer.

[@mystified1429]

Bill's started in Lewes, East Sussex. The Banoffee pie was created @ the Hungry Monk restaurant, Jevington, East Sussex.

[@torros1839]

Never heard of Bills either. A vest was something you wore when you were a kid it was made of cotton and looked liked something you woukd see basketball players wearing but usually white. The number of points awarded should be related to the football team Shelby supports. Getting pissed for the first time and being pushed around in a trolley I feel is something everyone has done

[@England91]

Yeah, I haven't heard of Bill's and a vest is a wife beater for Americans

[@Mugtree]

We have a Bill’s here in Gloucester 👍. Yeap a vest can be long sleeved or no sleeve (more common). Worn in winter to keep warm. Can be thermal too to help keep you warm

[@wessexdruid5290]

My first wife (a Magistrate's Clerk) heard a case in Bath, where a tramp was charged with criminal damage and being drunk in charge of a shopping trolley. Apparently, it was his dog's birthday, so they both went out for a drink or three... The dog couldn't stand afterwards, so he loaded it into a Sainsbury's trolley which had been dumped outside the pub, at the top of a hill. Halfway down, he fell over and lost control of the trolley (complete with dog). It went through one of Sainsbury's front windows, at the bottom of the hill.

[@michaelrue1400]

I've always called it a tank top, not a wife beater, which sounds like someone who belongs in jail.

[@BennyJlakid]

I seem to becoming obsessed with American reacting to Britain video. They can be irritating but you are not. Well done and good job.😂 I might even watch another one now.

[@raymonde4272]

Congratulations to Shelby, she did very well, every half point matters.

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

So true, she was all about those half points!!

[@miketrevarrow9795]

Americans always seem to get confused about what is a VEST, Well a VEST in BRITAIN is a thin under shirt without any arms, not a tee- shirt, worn under a work or dress shirt (it's more like a running singlet) which does help keep you warm, years ago there use to be string vests, a VEST with holes in usually diamond shaped, which if you can believe it, did surprisingly helped keep you warm, my father wore them all the time, and always in white.

[@phuckerby]

"Bills" must be very new or regional, because I have lived in the Midlands for 70 years and never heard of it. 😎

[@MikeyFilm85]

@@Thurgosh_OG I live in the south of Englandshire and I've never seen one either; or noticed one atleast.

[@callum9693]

circa 2001 I think

[@andysutcliffe3915]

Allotments were a wartime thing, growing stuff to eat was encouraged, but most people didn’t have the space, so allotments were created in town public land.

[@andrewbaker7839]

They were typically sized to be able to provide a major part of the vegetables for an average family. Some were more realistic than others in this regard. I live in Welwyn Garden City, famed for it's green spaces and public gardens. A lot of these were dug up to create allotments during WW2.

[@philcoogan7369]

There is great demand for allotments if you want one in a great many places you will have to go on a waiting list.

[@ianprince1698]

my dad loved his allotment grew fruit and veg on it

[@jamesmason3348]

Allotments as we know them today, started taking shape in 1908 with the Small Holdings and Allotments Act. They we originally set up to help the poor grow their own food and later to help people returning from war.

[@ragereaver8576]

B&Q actually stands for Block and Quayle. It's mentioned in their company history page.

[@Zooumberg]

It's owned by the Kingfisher Group now. A huge group that owns loads of different companies.

[@eddhardy1054]

Yep and George Lucas based The Empire in Star Wars on Kingfisher.

[@lt7895]

We want more Shelby. She seems lovely.

[@GinervaWeasleyPotter]

I love this guest! She seems like a mix of all my closest friends, just American 😂

[@lesley585]

Vests in the UK are long or short sleeved. Can also be sleeveless. They are classed as underwear and an extra layer worn for added warmth when required. They can be worn by men and women. The term vest has in modern times been taken to refer to sleeveless t shirts too. The US vest is what we refer to as a waistcoat. A gilet is also a type of waiscoat designed for warmth.

[@euanthomas3928]

Gilet is a recent import from French and is the french word for a type of sleeveless jacket, e.g. "gilet de sauvetage" - lifevest

[@maxplanck9055]

I can see why kalyn is married,she seems like a nice fun woman,interesting to see her in America after many years, much love Kalyn❤️❤️🇬🇧

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

Thank you so much for watching!!

[@lawrencegt2229]

Technically, in the UK the term 'gilet' would only be applied to an external, sleeveless garment such as a puffy bodywarmer or the sleeveless fluorescent top worn by cyclists. The sleeveless garment that goes over a shirt and under the coat of a suit we call a waistcoat, or 'weskit', depending on which part of the country you come from (note, suits do not have 'jackets'; a suit has a coat and to protect it you wear an overcoat (which goes... yeah). A sleeveless woollen jumper is a 'slipover', or more colloquially a 'tank top'.

[@brianwhittington5086]

A vest in the UK is a sleeveless cotton undergarment, with a low round neck. Traditionally white, but darker colours for work too. You can also get them in an open mesh style, called a String Vest, which are supposed to keep you warmer by trapping warm air in the mesh. Think Bruce Willis in the Die Hard film for an example, and look up British comedy show, Rab C Nesbitt for the string vest type.

[@martifingers]

Very entertaining. You might be interested to know that up until the late 60s in Northern Ireland we had electric buses that were known as "trolley buses".

[@morganetches3749]

A vest is a sleeveless undershirt (although I think sometimes they have sleeves - usually not). What you call a vest, we call a waistcoat.

[@W417on]

You just called them crisps by default, rather chips, you're almost one of us 😅

[@annaburch3200]

I live near Seattle. We had a "pea patch" which would be the same as an allotment that we just paid a fee for. It happened to be at our church. There are pea patches in downtown Seattle on top of parking garages and empty land.

[@carlhartwell7978]

Lloyds is not only a bank, but also a pharmacy and a pub chain (which is just a brand of the massive JD Wetherspoons pub company which owns several other individual pub brands). All three _Lloyds_ are totally unrelated other than having the same name. I should say technically the Lloyds pubs are officially called _Lloyds No 1 bar,_ but I feel everyone just call's them Lloyds.

[@rachelpenny5165]

Lloyd's pharmacy group also do a home health care service where they deliver my injections every 4 weeks, and take back a full sharps bin when needed. The injections I get delivered is a disease modifying treatment for multiple sclerosis.

[@carlhartwell7978]

@@rachelpenny5165 That's awesome.

[@mikebaylie]

A "brolly" = " umbrella" also its known as a "gamp:" I love the way you throw questions to your Best friend.

[@mystified1429]

I thought it was a gimp

[@roymiller5531]

Good fun guys, well done Shelby. I find it interesting the names for items our forefathers had that now separates our common starting language. Keep up the good work Caitlin x

[@LauraNozkla]

A vest to me, is basically a top you wear (it can look like a sort of tank top or small women’s summer T-shirt, that doesn’t have sleeves) that you put on under another T-shirt or something as en extra layer to keep warm or I suppose you could just wear one out in the summer time when it very warm:) something you wear underneath to keep warm with sleeve I’d call “thermals” or “skins”

[@snowfire4194]

Fun fact, we had a store in the UK like B&Q called Texas.

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

Haha, didn't know that!!

[@andrewbaker7839]

@@GirlGoneLondonofficial before it finally died a few years ago (and like "Do It All"), going in one was rather like visiting The Land That Time Forgot. You fully expected to see a Mummy down every aisle.

[@iannewlands2039]

Texas diy was brought out by Homebase in the 90s. Stores and staff re-branded.

[@andrewbaker7839]

@@iannewlands2039 That totally explains why the last time I went to our nearest one, it had turned into The Land That Time Forgot. I'm not remotely surprised they went bust.

[@eddhardy1054]

@@iannewlands2039 I was one of the staff who were rebranded...it stang quite a bit. 😳

[@AutoReport1]

Allotments are or were linked to your residence. At one time there was a trend for garden space to be separated from housing plots in one area. Every house would have an allotment of garden space. Part of the reasoning was that your yard attached to the house might be small, shaded and not have good soil, but people needed garden space in order to get fresh vegetables.

[@amandafischer184]

Never used an airing cupboard to dry clothes. They were used for clothes that were fresh off of the drying line (berore the days of tumble dryers), The washing was neatly folded on the multiple shelves, then left for a couple of days, the heat from the water boiler sorftened up the washing.

[@roberttaylor5997]

The airing cupboard gets the clothes completely dry, but as Amanda points out they're already as dry as they'll get on the clothesline before they go in there.

[@itsmephil2255]

Well done Shelby 👍 You were brave enough to appear on the channel and some of your guesses were hilarious Love how Kayln is like totally slipping back into American mode more and more 🇬🇧🇺🇸

[@weedle30]

“A vest” - something your mum insists that you should wear under your clothes, as it “will keep you warm…it’s cold outside…” your response (at the age below 30 😉) “me….. wear A VEST.??!!!??? whaaaat? Huh! “ *shrug shoulders and look at parent as if she had just stepped in the house from the 1900’s* * gets cold* …. Travel forward in time to the age of 30+ “a vest? Of course! I wear a long sleeved thermal one under my clothes, it’s bloody cold outside!” So yes - vests…. A marvellous item of clothing - short or long sleeved, - keeps the upper body warm as toast in the winter….

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

Haha, love this insight into vests, Helen, thanks!

[@crose7412]

@@jillhobson6128 A vest surely is always sleeveless and occasionally a string vest i.e. with holes.

[@paulthomas8262]

@@jillhobson6128 vests are usually underclothes that is a tank top. Basically the point of a vest is so you shirt won't get as unclean from use, and to keep you warm. A lot of time people just used T-shirts for is but originaly it was vest and a v neck mean it won't be visible at the collar of the shirt.

[@richardgraham4512]

@@GirlGoneLondonofficial An iconic variant of the vest in the UK was the "string vest". Alas, like the bowler hat (US: derby), braces (US: suspenders) and the waistcoat (US: vest), a cornerstone of the British male wardrobe has now mostly passed into obsolescence. A terrible blow for professional northerners and unreconstructed males, who wore and loved the revealing undergarment for decades. Worn by miners and builders, the string vest, like the flat cap and donkey jacket, became a garment associated with the working class. In a country that was fluent in the subtlest of class indicators, the vest became easy sartorial shorthand. We Brits no longer want to wear the vest immortalised by Rab C Nesbitt and Andy Capp. Men (more likely wives and girlfriends) now associate string vests with old men and pot-bellied plumbers. Metrosexual chaps apparently prefer solid cotton singlets or tee-shirts; many even eschewing vests altogether and going commando underneath their all-organic Fairtrade blouses...

[@paulthomas8262]

@@richardgraham4512 The string vest is alive and well in Jamaica but a much more colourful variety.

[@sharonbennett5675]

A vest to me are mainly worn by kids. Under their clothes. Babies have vests with poppers for easy change of nappies. Kiddies were vests tucked into knickers (girls) or underpants (boys). I worn these when I was little (nearly 50). However when I had little ones , yes my babies worn a vest but my little kids did not. Houses are now central heated so the extra warmth/ layer is not needed. You will find adult vests both sleeveless, shirt and long sleeved. Worn for outdoor activities or by the older generation who need an extra layer to keep warm. 😀

[@karenbirch6222]

In Yorkshire a vest is a thin t-shirt without sleeves usually worn under clothes. I used to watch the American show Cops and we'd always spot the criminals because they'd be the ones wearing just vests and shorts in the middle of the night - bit too cold for that here.

[@henrycopeland7316]

A vest, also known as a singlet, is usually worn on the top half of the body next to the skin for males to keep worn. Usually sleeveless and can be thermal like fleece material or thin cotton. Designed originally to absorb sweat and keep you warm and save outer garments from washing so much.

[@mistycrom]

Vests are sleeveless. I think the US equivalent'd be tank top. Though a tank top in the UK is what you'd maybe call a sleeveless sweater. It's all very confusing.

[@Sylvander1911]

Sometimes referred to in the States, derogatorily, as "a wife beater"

[@martinHearndrums]

An allotment is of course mainly used for growing your own produce and although in many cases (especially in areas where people live in high rise flats) they are rented from the council, you can however have your own allotment in your garden as we did when I was a kid (radishes were my thing) so really it's more of a generic term now for vegetable patch.

[@andysutcliffe3915]

Customer service is very different in the UK. Because they don’t require tips to live, they are unobtrusive, and only try to interact when you need them.

[@Matahalii]

A trolley in Germany would be the "Shopping bag on 2 wheels" that older people often use or any single- or multi-axle contraption to help moving big or heavy items but is pushed/pulled by hand or other motor vehicle. A vest we would call "Weste" and it can be anything that you wear on the upper half of your body, has no steeves and has buttons (maybe a zip) on the front. It can be a suit vest under the suit jacket, a "jacket without arms" as the outermost clothing or anything that fits the description.

[@paulrobson7887]

A vest in the UK is technically underwear. Like a tight fitting, sleeveless T-shirt, generally worn by men under a shirt or in the Summer when it’s hot. Australians use the horrible term ‘wife beater’ to refer to it.

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

Sadly the Americans also use wife beater to refer to it, now that I have read the comments section - I always thought a vest was thicker than that, but it makes sense now!

[@itsmephil2255]

Another word for a gilet is a body warmer

[@philcoogan7369]

Gilet is the French for body warmer

[@morganetches3749]

@@philcoogan7369 No it ain't. Gilet is the french for vest or waistcoat

[@chrislawley6801]

@@itsmephil2255 Thanks as being born in UK from up t'north I had no idea what a gilet is 😀

[@ynysvon]

A vest is a sleeveless T shirt and is usually worn as an undershirt for extra warmth in the winter. Or as an alternative to a T shirt on hot days.

[@williebauld1007]

We will give her 30 points for being brave enough to attempt it 👍🏻 Bill’s???? Never heard of it!

[@hughtube5154]

In UK supermarkets, you have a basket (handheld), a trolley (wiry structure on wheels for larger shopping ), but in an Aldi or Lidl there's a plastic basket on wheels which you drag/push around by the large collapsable handle that (I think) would be called a cart.

[@ElizabethDebbie24]

Debenhans closed all of their shops earlier this year in May and mainly only on line at the present time.

[@captelegance]

A vest is a sleeveless t shirt that goes under your normal clothing to help keep you warm. I don't wear them. The long armed under shirts are typically known as thermals. You go outside and it's -3 Celsius, you want to keep warm but not be wearing a big heavy coat. You put your thermal shirt on under your normal shirt

[@ItsMeJenBB]

LOL I knew about allotments because Ben Ebbers the chef on the Sorted Foods youtube channel (based in London) has one and he grows lots of great veg and herbs! As someone who watches British TV almost exclusively (thanks to apps), I didn't do as good as I thought on the stores. I knew B&Q and John Lewis. Whomp whomp. LOL

[@LecheVitrineUK]

In the UK a vest is a tank top, it does not have sleeves as that would be a t-shirt, we can have 'vest top' you could have a 'thermal vest' to keep warm both men and women wear them, they can also be a summer top. I wear vest tops as an extra layer in winter, I live in the north and Im 'nesh' meaning I get cold easily. we used to call gillet ' body wamer' is a sleeveless jacket.

[@krisjonesuk]

I suspect Shelby has good negotiating skills - she managed to get you to award points. I’m not sure how many British people nowadays know about allotments. Since your channel is about sharing knowledge, we also have Lloyds Pharmacies, Lloyds gyms, Lloyds of London insurance and Lloyds List, for the international shipping trade. Walkers Crisps is now owned by PepsiCo, who also own Lays. Gilet comes to us courtesy of our neighbours in France, who we seem to get a lot of our culinary names from (courgette, aubergine, Comis Chef, etc). A vest is generally, though not exclusively, a sleeveless undergarment. It can also refer to what you would call a vest, which we often call a waistcoat. We also have bulletproof vests. To complicate matters more, and add to the gaiety of the language, we also have tabards, which are a bit like vests or waistcoats.

[@grahamtravers4522]

My grandfather, Frank MIlls, used to maintain 3 allotments. Strictly, you are only allowed one, but he had a second in his son's name and a third which "belonged" to a man who couldn't maintain it. He kept us (his children and grandchildren) supplied with vegetables and pulses for many years. He would walk about a mile to the allotments, spend several hours working there, then walk a mile back. In the evening, he would take his dog out for a second walk, invariably over to his allotments, and back again. Pretty remarkable for a man who had his foot blown off in WW1.

[@hugh5365]

Vest in the UK is an undershirt worn by men it never has long sleeves and usually haas no sleeves at all, kind of like you sometimes see for working out. Traditionally you would wear them as an extra layer to help keep your core warmer (old houses have no central heating and can be deadly). They aren’t worn as commonly now

[@johnpittock9687]

Think you mean a body warmer for a gilet

[@gingerbaker4390]

A vest is a waistcoat in England. A vest in America is a undershirt. A Gillet in the UK is a padded jacket sometimes without sleeves. The American version is called a bodywarmer. Not needed in Flowerland (Florida)..

[@589steven]

Lays and Walkers are the same, they are owned by PepsiCo. When it comes to vests the one with the filler that you would use for winter is called a puffer vest.

[@michaelloach9461]

Great vid & sorry for being late viewing (only 1 year)! B & Q stands for Block & Quayle. You taught me something. The tennis thing, thanks. Blimey, I've never heard of 'Bills', perhaps I should go out more! All the best.....

[@phuckerby]

Only pretentious people in the UK would call a "bodywarmer" a "gilet" 🤣🤣

[@pollyhacker952]

A lot of parents put young children in vests (all sleeveless) under their school uniform shirts to keep them warmer in the cold weather. I personally don't know any adults who wear them but they come in adult sizes so I guess they must do. Shelby was a real trooper - good on her!

[@neill392]

The interesting thing about John Lewis's is that it is a workers cooperative and is owned by the workforce, who are all partners,

[@simonbutterfield4860]

Yes its a Mutual like a Building Society.

[@andrewbaker7839]

It's also in trouble. They have new management who seem to have forgotten why people go (went) there. The expensive, older staff who knew about kitchens, crockery, aAudio and how to size curtains, etc have largely been made redundant, and replaced with cheaper younger staff who, while often helpful, appear to know SQRT(SFA). So you might as well than kind of stuff on-line. A huge shame. Sales have been plummeting, as has the yearly bonus to Partners.

[@neill392]

@@simonbutterfield4860 Not quite, a mutual is owned by it's customers, as in the co-op. The John Lewis Partnership is a partnership where the staff are all partners.

[@neill392]

@@andrewbaker7839 Whilst the management carry some blame, the reality is that virtually all "shop based" businesses are in deep trouble. Their overheads mean they can't compete with online businesses. Amazon is slowly obliterating the high-street.

[@andrewbaker7839]

@@neill392 Yes. The high street is not going to be able to compete with online for range or price, they might be able to by offering "NOW!" and from real, useful service - I don't mean a big smile and kind words, I mean real product knowledge from a sales assistant with the means to apply it. ...and this is where John Lewis went wrong - they used to be able to offer that kind of service, and they've largely thrown that advantage it away. It will be very hard for them to get it back.

[@NRTSean]

allotments can be both communal (mostly in villages) or individual... In parts of Scotland these are often called community allotments or gardens

[@chrisfryer3118]

reassuringly expensive, used to be an advertising line for Stella Artois, back when it was a good lager (25years+ ago). Now it has devalued its brand, and become a bit crap.

[@stu2333]

Absolutely 👍

[@luddski038]

I miss 5.2% Stella! good old wife beater!

[@HamnaTabuu]

B&Q - originally Block & Quayle (1969) after the original owners. PepsiCo bought Walkers crisps in 1989 (owners of Lays). Gilet - sleeveless jackets. Can apply to a "hi-viz vest" see also "Gilet jaune" in France

[@graemehossack7401]

Debenhams went out of business at the start of this year, check your insurance.

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

Thank you Graeme! Luckily Guy has corrected me that we had Debenhams insurance last year, and now we have it through Nationwide - phew! I just print out the paperwork and go on my merry blissfully-unaware American way!

[@thespiderspeed]

Debenhams is now online only. Got bought out by the person who owns boohoo.

[@graemehossack7401]

@@thespiderspeed Boohoo, the ghost of Christmas past. All those merry time that once were but are no more.

[@allysonhughes6138]

The vest discussion 😂 very funny. traditionally the shape would be like todays sleeveless t-shirt you would wear out and about in the summer. 👍😊

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[@tonys1636]

Your patreon site comes up with code 404, foxy lost in space.

[@tonys1636]

Found it the hard way, by doing a search.

[@freddiemac1438]

Another cracking video !!!

[@robinford4037]

Fun fact or urban myth: The Vest ( what you wear under a cotton shirt when wearing a suit ) was huge in America, an essential piece of clothing for the man about town, the vest industry virtually collapsed over night because CARY GRANT did not wear one in a film, he was bare chested when he removed his shirt,

[@sunbeamgal1]

😄 I live in the uk and I didn’t know what Bill’s was 😂

[@rachelpenny5165]

There is or was a Beales in Bournemouth. It was a store similar to Debenhams.

[@denisehill7769]

My husband, a huge Bob Dylan fan, finds it hilarious that Bob's onstage outfit was described as "a leather vest and pants". To us this is underwear and normally made of soft cotton :)

[@hughtube5154]

The best way to describe a gilet is the orange coat Marty McFly wore in Back To The Future over his denim/jean jacket, which the '50s folk called a life preserver ("Dork thinks he's gonna drown"), which I guess we'd call a life jacket in the UK.

[@nongrockle]

Vests (undershirts) are also worn in hot climates so that shirts are not stained with sweat, often seen when I worked in Africa

[@GaryHayward]

I give her a million points for being a good sport by taking part in the quiz and for being such an obviously nice, friendly person! :)

[@chrissanders1027]

Gilet is from the french la gilet meaning cardigan which in turn is from Turkish word yelek , gilet has been used in the uk for over 30 years. Also lays chips is a rebranding of walkers crisps to sell in North America

[@gastrickbunsen1957]

Another name for a gilet is a bodywarmer but they tend be of fleece material. A vest is an undergarment but it has no sleeves. Traditional seaside postcards often depict a family scene where the father is wearing a string vest and he has knotted hanky on his head. What you call a vest, we call a waistcoat.

[@keithygadget381]

A Vest is a sleeveless undershirt. Worn usually in winter as an extra layer for warmth and not common these days. I can’t say we even see them in the shops anymore.

[@joyridgway6398]

There are not so many airing cupboards nowadays. When we had one we put dry towels tea towels and bedding into it not things to dry.

[@mattybowler7966]

Vest in the uk doesn't usually have sleeves usauly older people and children's wear them to keep warm in the cold winters that. Can reach up to - 10 degrees c

[@francisjose702]

A vest is a sleeveless undershirt, usually worn by men. Basically a guy’s halter top undershirt. And it’s a base layer to help insulate and keep warm

[@warlock12uk]

Two things. 1 - Never heard of the chain Bill's. I'm not widely traveled but I've been to London, Birmingham, Sheffield, Newcastle, Norwich, Peterborough and Nottingham without seeing one. 2 - A vest (in the UK) is usually a sleeveless undershirt, comparable to what is known as a wifebeater in the US. They can also be worn as an alternative to a t-shirt on the rare occasions that it's warm enough to do so. What you may refer to as a vest is what we may call a sweater vest, and is considered very unfashionable.

[@DavidCookeZ80]

Gilet is a French word for a sleeveless jacket. Often it refers to a the padded kind (think Marty in Back to the Future), but is also used for a life-preserver (Marty again) or the reflective jacket used when working at the side of a road or for construction. I'm surprised you came across the term in the UK, as when it's cold enough to require a padded jacket, it's usually also raining, and you'd want your arms covered. A vest is just another layer for retaining heat - it's not mean to be seen, which is why string vests exist. It's also different to an undershirt/t-shirt that might be colour coordinated with a regular shirt.

[@littlemisskate4254]

B&Q stands for block and Quayle. Yes Debenhams has recently closed sadly. You should’ve asked her what The shop Boots is that some people can mistake it as a shoe shop rather than a pharmacy. You could’ve asked her what a Yorkshire pudding is as some people mistake them is something you would have with your pudding rather than with a roast dinner and also whether you have your porkpie hot or cold as it’s always a cold pie and different to a normal pie. There’s a lot you could ask as we have so many things over here that are very different to your country.

[@johnstevenson1709]

Anyone wanting to see a vest in the uk look up onslow from keeping up appearances

[@peterdegelaen]

Yes, one picture says more than a thousand words.

[@daveofyorkshire301]

What you call a Gillet is a body-warmer, and a vest is a T-shirt worn under a shirt, larger full-sleeve underwear (with leggings) is called thermal-underwear

[@robincarey6341]

A vest is a sleeveless top, usually quite figure hugging, designed to keep you warm as an extra layer during the cold seasons, but is also used as baggy sports attire. You may know it as a tank top, or colloquially as a "wife be@ter". We in the UK know a tank top as a sleeveless sweater, usually hand knitted. What you may call a vest, we call a waistcoat, typically worn with a matching suit. And just FYI, the term "Jean Jacket" hits the ear wrong. The whole world, except America call them "denim jackets", because that is the fabric they are made of.

[@hannahadlington9396]

A vest is basically a tank top or a camisole style top that can be worn underneath your clothes to give you an extra layer to keep you warm. I used to always wear them as a little kid under my school uniform. I basically stopped wearing them when I hit around 8 years old. I don't own any specific vests anymore but on really cold days I will throw a regular tank top on under my regular clothes just to add that extra layer to keep the cold away.

[@jamesantony3015]

I'm born and raised in the UK. a vest is kind of like a tank top or "wife beater" but maybe even thinner and lighter. To me it acts as an added layer of warmth.

[@barneylaurance1865]

There's something a bit old-fashioned about wearing a vest in the UK. Since t-shirts became popular from the 1950s on they have been multi-purpose garments - used both as outwear and as warming layers under shirts, jumpers etc. Before that people would have been less likely to own t-shirts and more likely to wear vests for warmth instead.

[@nicholaswoodhead9944]

A vest is a piece of underwear that covers the top half of the body. It is not a bra, and not a t-shirt. It is sleeveless with a low neckline, though you can get winter vests which look like plain t-shirts as a part of thermal underwear. Confusingly, nowadays, there are designer vests that are worn as the top layer of clothing, especially in summer. Also, rugby and association football shirts are also called vests, and athletes wear vests that show their team or national colours. A gilet is what we still call a body warmer or a puffer. There is a chain of pharmacies also called Lloyds, though they are unrelated to the bank called Lloyds.

[@cathyvickers9063]

Me dressed to go out walking in winter in the Midwest: Bra, short sleeve (snug t-shirt) or long sleeve undershirt (depending on freezing or below freezing), turtleneck shirt, fleece hoodie; also thermal pj bottoms under sweatpants; and 2 pairs of socks. Then boots, scarf, parka, knit cap; mittens. The cap is worn over the hoodie hood & under the parka hood. In my mind, a vest, by definition, has no sleeves, like a waistcoat is a button down vest. Sleeveless women's undershirts are called camisoles. According to the mail order catalog I get clothes from.