[Ads-l] A-shirt

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Thu Apr 27 07:24:03 UTC 2017


On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 3:12 AM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
On Apr 9, 2017 12:22 PM, "James A. Landau" <JJJRLandau at netscape.com> wrote:

> "tank top" (a term that in my experience refers only to women's clothing)
>

I first learned it as the name for the top of an old-style, man's two-piece
bathing suit. This was called a "vest" by my grandparents, who referred to
a T-shirt as a "waist."


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