"Sweater vest / sweatervest"

[Barbara Need]

Is a sweater vest necessarily buttoned? (That is, is it a sleeveless
cardigan, a sleeveless pullover, or both?

Barbara

>Thanks, arnold. It does look like I need to get out more. I was thinking
>that perhaps the sweater vest might *not* necessarily have the v-neck. I've
>read the term, "sweater vest," before, but, until today, I had no idea what,
>exactly, it referred to.
>
>-Wilson
>
>On 4/26/06, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu> wrote:
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>>  On Apr 26, 2006, at 3:03 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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>>  > I've just heard the above term (the speaker was wearing one:
>>  > "According to Esquire, the sweater vest is in, this season") used
>>  > for what I've known, till now, only as a "sleeveless sweater."
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>>  > Is this another instance in which I need to get out more?
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>>  possibly.
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>>  the first sweater vest (so labeled)i recall buying was in 1958.
>>  actually, i bought three, as part of my going-to-college clothes.  i
>>  have regularly worn sweater vests ever since.
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>>  they are, in my usage, not merely sleveless sweaters (though your
>>  usage of "sleveless sweater" might not be perfectly compositional),
>>  since sweater vests are always v-necked.
>>
>>  plenty of googleable links, but apparently not in the OED.
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>>  arnold
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