What is the word for this item of clothing

[abelina]

http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=17091&fullsize=1

How would Rose refer to the zippered shirt she is wearing in the Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit?  I would probably call it a hoodie even though it doesn't have a hood.  Is there a better Britglish word?

Comments

[shark_hat]

Looks like a jacket to me. (That is, I read it as outerwear, not some kind of shirt or a sweatshirt-y-thing like a hoodie.)

[abelina]

*smacks forehead* Oh my. That was so obviously the answer I'm not sure why I didn't think of it. Thanks! It does look like more of a jacket than a sweatshirty thing, but I just couldn't quite get to that thought independently, apparently!

[shark_hat]

Glad it makes sense!

[littlered2]

Jacket, probably.

One quick note - "shirt", in British English (my British English, anyway - others may disagree) refers to a garment with a collar and buttons on the front (what I think is generally called a "button-down" or "Oxford shirt" in US English). The generic term for an item of clothing worn on the top half of the body is a "top". Rose is definitely not wearing something that could be described as a shirt, by any stretch of the imagination.

[gentlehobbit]

Thanks for that. i've always been puzzled by references in fic to "Oxford shirts" or "button-down"... I wondered if there were some little Oxford crest over the breast pocket or some such, or that the collar had those tiny little buttonholes in the points.

Now I know they just mean shirts.

[bellebonnesage]

The "Oxford" part refers to the type of weave of the cloth!

[gentlehobbit]

Ah! Thanks! Learning something new every day!

:D

[xenaclone]

Probably 'jacket'. Maybe 'top' or even 'blouse'.

[choptliver]

I think I'd go with "fleece" for that type of jacket.

[littlered2]

Really? It doesn't look like a fleece at all to me - the texture's all wrong.