Ah the vest, as known also in Canada and a necessary apparel of our world to keep the heart/lungs warm, with the arms free to drink coffee topped up with *whatever your fancy...having lived in Cambridge, UK and Ireland as an equestrian it is the perfect piece of clothing to take you from the yard to the pub for a pint after. While I always stumbled over ‘gilet’, watching the punters go around at Burghley in their gilet of choice, it always made me feel I was living the quintessential life of a Brit.
And at weekend auctions full of Victorian furniture and pseudo-serious art out in the countryside, well-polished Lobb or Church shoes finish the look for casually rapacious Londoners….
It was just a short few years ago that I realized 'gilet' was said in England not as some kind of joke, but as the actual word choice for 'vest'. I've yet to understand why this French word is so dominant as opposed to our vests in the US as it's one instance where I duly prefer the American word #aluminum #aluminium
Ah the vest, as known also in Canada and a necessary apparel of our world to keep the heart/lungs warm, with the arms free to drink coffee topped up with *whatever your fancy...having lived in Cambridge, UK and Ireland as an equestrian it is the perfect piece of clothing to take you from the yard to the pub for a pint after. While I always stumbled over ‘gilet’, watching the punters go around at Burghley in their gilet of choice, it always made me feel I was living the quintessential life of a Brit.
And at weekend auctions full of Victorian furniture and pseudo-serious art out in the countryside, well-polished Lobb or Church shoes finish the look for casually rapacious Londoners….
It was just a short few years ago that I realized 'gilet' was said in England not as some kind of joke, but as the actual word choice for 'vest'. I've yet to understand why this French word is so dominant as opposed to our vests in the US as it's one instance where I duly prefer the American word #aluminum #aluminium