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[MaximumZero]

It's a matter of where one lives. In the US, a vest is worn under your suit jacket and a waistcoat doesn't exist except in the jargon of pretentious people like me. In the UK, a waistcoat is worn under one's suit jacket and a vest is an undergarment. In the US, we call 'em wife-beaters. With a DJ, any of the alternatives you mentioned would do very well. Just don't put the wife-beater on over your dress shirt. :-)

Hehe, II is pretentious!

[Orange Wizard]

I'm not from the US, silly. I didn't even know the distinction existed.

Edit: Well, I guess I'm still pretentious. Just not American.

And that's the greatest gift of all.

[Yoink]

Pants other than jeans are pyjamas.   

[Spehss _]

Pants other than jeans are pyjamas.

Today I learned I wear cargo pajamas.

[hops]

Welp, time to start wearing skirts instead of pajamas.

[MaximumZero]

Pants other than jeans are pyjamas.

Today I learned I wear cargo pajamas.

Apparently, I work in dress slack pajamas. Who knew?

[scrdest]

Welp, time to start wearing skirts instead of pajamas.

Unless it counts too. Then you can wear cocktail pajamas. Or minipajamas.

[Araph]

You're looking good.

That's a vest and it looks good! >:I

Thanks!

That's a vest and it looks good! >:I

That's not a vest, that's a waistcoat.

...Waistcoat? Here in 'Murica, we don't cotton to no waistcoats.

Possibly because a lot of Americans are touchy about their waists (ooh, sick burn).

Pants other than jeans are pyjamas.

Today I learned I wear cargo pajamas.

So, wait. Are pajamas and pyjamas the same thing, then? Is the latter just British or something?

[IronTomato]

I'm American and I've never seen it spelled as pyjamas. I thought Yoink was joking when he said it. :s

[TD1]

I say pyjamas.

[Spehss _]

I say pyjamas.

As in "pie-jamas" or "peh-jamas"? Because despite my spelling it "pajamas" I pronounce it as "peh-jamas" instead of something like "pay-jamas".

Weee, English language.

[Araph]

I say pyjamas.

As in "pie-jamas" or "peh-jamas"? Because despite my spelling it "pajamas" I pronounce it as "peh-jamas" instead of something like "pay-jamas".

Weee, English language.

Maybe it's a dialect thing, but I've only heard it pronounced 'pah-jamas'.

[hops]

Pyjamas are imported from Pynama, obviously.

* Objective eat some Pypa John's

[mastahcheese]

Why don't you just call it "night wear" or "lounge wear" if it's during the day?
In either case, I never understood the function of them, why would you undress out of your clothes, then redress into something else just to sleep?
I never got that.

[Descan]

Usually it's because they're really comfy. Like, "caressing your genitals with the feathers of an angel" comfy.

If they aren't that comfortable, then I don't get it myself.