Michele wrote:

Ha, thinking really, really hard about how Sherlock might have survived the fall...
 

Working those jeans and jumper for all they're wortrh.

Gorgeous.
But sorry, Brit perdant:  It's a cardigan.

besleybean wrote:

Gorgeous.
But sorry, Brit perdant:  It's a cardigan.

*smile* Yeah, I was thinking that, too. We Americans probably shouldn't attempt to use British words-- we get them wrong as often as we get them right. heh  Forget it-- that's a sweater.

ancientsgate wrote:

besleybean wrote:

Gorgeous.
But sorry, Brit perdant:  It's a cardigan.

*smile* Yeah, I was thinking that, too. We Americans probably shouldn't attempt to use British words-- we get them wrong as often as we get them right. heh  Forget it-- that's a sweater.

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I shall now refer to it as The Martin Freeman Knitted Garment of Sass."

ancientsgate wrote:

besleybean wrote:

Gorgeous.
But sorry, Brit perdant:  It's a cardigan.

*smile* Yeah, I was thinking that, too. We Americans probably shouldn't attempt to use British words-- we get them wrong as often as we get them right. heh  Forget it-- that's a sweater.

 
True….  but I always heard the buttoned/open sweater-like (as an actual sweater/jumper wouldn't be open like that) thing referred to as a cardigan, too, so not just a Brit thing.  And huh… just looked up the etymology of it out of curiosity - "mid 19th cent. (Crimean War): named after James Thomas Brudenel, 7th Earl of Cardigan (1797–1868), leader of the Charge of the Light Brigade, whose troops first wore such garments"   Cool… I love the poem inspired by him… didn't know the part about the clothing!  (addendum…  even more neat 'huh!' -- "The Charge of the Light Brigade was a charge of British light cavalry led by Lord Cardigan against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava on 25 October 1854 in the Crimean War" so…. two clothing items spurred by soldiers there who wore them!  Perfect for 'our' soldier then. 
Or…. y'know… he's totally free to loaf around in around-the-house wear, looking adorably pensive instead….    (wonder if he'd share the blanket…..)

Russell wrote:

....but I always heard the buttoned/open sweater-like (as an actual sweater/jumper wouldn't be open like that) thing referred to as a cardigan, too, so not just a Brit thing.....

AFAIK, a cardigan (an open-down-the-front sweater or one closed with buttons or a zipper or some other kind of fastener) is a cardigan on both sides of the pond. But what we call a pullover or a pullover sweater, they call a jumper. To us, a jumper is a girl's pinafore dress, under which a blouse or knit shirt of some kind, something with sleeves, is worn. And meanwhile, to Americans, all sweaters are just....sweaters, even though sometimes we might specify pullover or cardiagan type of sweater. Whew! I'm exhausted! *smile*

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kittykat wrote:

This is such a lovely moment!