https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/jumper-vs-sweateris-there-a-difference Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:38:41 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/jumper-vs-sweateris-there-a-difference#post-755148 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:13:51 +0000 anne 755148@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I also use jumper in the Australian way (being australia). And though I don't routinely use it to refer to a cardigan I might say something like "I'll just grab a jumper" as I rush out the door and actually get a cardigan. I sometimes use "jacket" in the same catch all way.</p> <p>As for what I'd call what is a jumper in the US, I might be tempted to say "tunic" - as in a school tunic - this was what we called our school uniforms that were wore with a shirt underneath. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/jumper-vs-sweateris-there-a-difference#post-755067 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 08:21:52 +0000 Mander 755067@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ah yes. Many of my relatives have had a bit of a mis-step with the term "fanny" when visiting me in the UK. Back home it is an inoffensive and even cutesy term for one's rear end. My aunt attracted many stares and titters when shouting at my 4-year-old nephew who was trying to run off...</p> <p>I'm learning new terms all the time the longer I live here. I really have the impression that the British have a lot more slang terms in common use than we Americans do. Maybe it's related to the diversity of regional accents and dialects. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/jumper-vs-sweateris-there-a-difference#post-755062 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 08:10:56 +0000 Ingunn 755062@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thank you for clarifying! As a foreign language speaker (to you, that is). I find it very challenging to choose the correct terms, so this is very helpful. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/jumper-vs-sweateris-there-a-difference#post-755059 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 07:49:27 +0000 ElleH 755059@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>In America they call napolitana pasta sauce marinara &amp; there is no seafood in it. No marine life whatsoever. And a bottom is a fanny. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/jumper-vs-sweateris-there-a-difference#post-754993 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 03:46:33 +0000 Deborah 754993@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Nicole D, I'm an Aussie and I have always called that style of dress a knit dress, which I realize is quite a broad term.</p> <p>I didn't realize sweater covered jumpers and cardigans.</p> <p>For the purposes of YLF I have tended to adopt a few "Americanisms" to avoid confusion:) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/jumper-vs-sweateris-there-a-difference#post-754763 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 23:16:19 +0000 bj1111 754763@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>ok...am american (close enough). to me, sweater=pullover, not cardigan. </p> <p>got used to jumper on this board, but wore a different kind of jumper for grade school. (needed a white blouse underneath.)</p> <p>pinafore, i thought, was an old fashioned term for jumper, but am corrected. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/jumper-vs-sweateris-there-a-difference#post-754742 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 22:37:40 +0000 Carole 754742@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I was confused by the term jumper as well, for me that means a sleeveless dress that you wear a blouse or turtleneck under. We learn so much hanging out here! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/jumper-vs-sweateris-there-a-difference#post-754739 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 22:33:26 +0000 Angie 754739@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Pinafore. Exactly. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/jumper-vs-sweateris-there-a-difference#post-754699 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:52:44 +0000 rachylou 754699@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Well, before now, that dress would have been a pinafore to me. But I have wikipedia'd it, and a pinafore is truly an apron. There is no back. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/jumper-vs-sweateris-there-a-difference#post-754681 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:41:42 +0000 Mander 754681@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think that kind of dress is perhaps a pinafore in the UK? Or is a pinafore an apron?</p> <p>To me, a pullover can be any kind of top that you pull over something else -- so a sweater or sweatshirt, but not a cardigan or hoodie. I've always thought of it as an old-fashioned or country term. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/jumper-vs-sweateris-there-a-difference#post-754674 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:37:41 +0000 rachylou 754674@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>In my mind there is the category: Sweater (knitted yarn)</p> <p>In this category there are: Jumpers and Cardigans</p> <p>Sweatshirts go in their own category as made from "knit fabrics." Hoodies go in this category properly speaking, but are so important they can be mentioned on equal level (hehe).</p> <p>And now that you mention it, I have no idea what a pullover is... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/jumper-vs-sweateris-there-a-difference#post-754668 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:35:19 +0000 deb 754668@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thank you all for the info. I wore 'jumpers' when I was a kid but they were sleeveless dresses with a button down shirt or a fine guage sweater under. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/jumper-vs-sweateris-there-a-difference#post-754667 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:33:42 +0000 Nicole D 754667@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What do British people call "Jumpers" then? I mean jumpers that are dress like, no sleeves and go over a blouse. Like so:<br /> <a href="http://www.iheartthat.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/.thumbs/.larok_pinafore_dress0001.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.iheartthat.com/wp-c.....ss0001.jpg</a> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/jumper-vs-sweateris-there-a-difference#post-754648 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:14:28 +0000 Caro in Oz 754648@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Of course we have other jumpers in Australia - kangaroos &amp; wallabies....... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/jumper-vs-sweateris-there-a-difference#post-754640 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:10:18 +0000 biscuitsmom 754640@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks for the info! I remember a jumper being short for a one piece jumpsuit...lol </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/jumper-vs-sweateris-there-a-difference#post-754634 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:07:32 +0000 Inge 754634@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Good point, Angie, I always forget that a sweater can also be a cardigan in the US:-) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/jumper-vs-sweateris-there-a-difference#post-754633 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:06:32 +0000 Angie 754633@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>A jumper is a PULLOVER, not a cardigan. A sweater means both a cardigan and pullover. </p> <p>Knitwear = Sweaters</p> <p>I use the word jumper, not sweater. A sweater to me is a sweatshirt. But! I have to use the word sweater from time to time so that my clients and readership in the US get what I am saying. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/jumper-vs-sweateris-there-a-difference#post-754629 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:58:08 +0000 ElleH 754629@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Jumper is Australian &amp; English term for sweater. In Australia it would only apply to a knitted sweater. If it was cut &amp; sewn from a knitted fabric though, such as fleece it would be called a windcheater in Victoria or a sloppy joe I think in NSW if my memory is correct.</p> <p>They are called jerseys also in Britain I think &amp; maybe NZ </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/jumper-vs-sweateris-there-a-difference#post-754628 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:57:36 +0000 Inge 754628@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think both are pretty much interchangeable, Deb. Jumper (sometimes also pullover) is just the British/Australian equivalent for the American word sweater. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/jumper-vs-sweateris-there-a-difference#post-754624 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:53:20 +0000 deb 754624@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I am seeing more and more, what I call sweaters, called jumpers. Will someone please clarify? </p>