Why do they call them sportcoats when they are anything but sporty?

[KitchenWitch]

:wtf:

[Zomby Woof]

1. And!

Why do FREEways have toll booths?? :wtf:

[RoeBear]

3. Well...

freeways don't have toll booths. If you see a toll booth it's a tollway not a freeway.

[Zomby Woof]

5. But...

Exceptions abound! :D

(It was just a joke, although I can remember living where there was a major toll road, and it was called a freeway out of habit)

[HEyHEY]

2. they aren't formal

So they're "sporty"

Gotta think back to the early 1900s when it was invented

[KitchenWitch]

6. Not formal but not sporty either

Why can't they call them blazers, like women do!

[HEyHEY]

7. Not formal by today's standards

But when they were created they were.
I like calling them sportcoats...blazer sounds too boujois (SP?)

[HEyHEY]

8. Oops, I meant Formal by today's standards

[Ivan Sputnik]

4. Way back when,

when men dressed more formally and wore suits much more often, they were considered casual wear. Still are, in some situations.

[Magrittes Pipe]

9. A sports coat is proper attire for the sports played by gentlemen.

You know, like yachting.

[HEyHEY]

10. Or repressing third worlds

[Magrittes Pipe]

11. That's not a sport.

It's a game. :D

[KitchenWitch]

12. Oh I just thought it was

Business as Usual!