Funny slang for clothes…

Just Googled ‘daps’ as I’m not familiar with that name here in the NE.
Apparently it’s thought to derive from the Dunlop Athletic Plimsole - the Factory was in Bristol.

Up here - we called them sand shoes when we were youngsters.

We call Jim Jams for pyjamas and my Son in Law told his daughter that her vest was called a vestibule now she thinks that’s what it’s called.

Daisy roots. Boots.

Sand shoes are sannies in this house but never plimsolls. A flat cap is a bunnet.

Titfer. Hat.

MissAdventure my imagination is running away with me .Knitted bathers that stretch when they’re [wet ]

My friend had to walk from the sea to where her mum was, with great droopy bits of her swimming cossie hanging down.

Maybe the yarn that was used?
Her mum was desperately poor.

Pjs - pyjamas
DJs- dressing gown
Daps- plimsolls

Depending where I lived they ve been
plimsols, pumps, runners, and daps
Pjs for pyjama's
Knickknocks for undies

Baffies for slippers. (Scotland)

Mens underpants are knackercrackers here in Yorkshire

Swimwear (all kinds) is dookers here.

In Canada, ginch for men's, or tighty-whities.

Billy Connolly’s story of his knitted swimming trunks is hilarious.

I'm a bit disappointed to realise we don't have too many words for clothes, apart from the proper ones.

Georgesgran

Billy Connolly’s story of his knitted swimming trunks is hilarious.

I shall look that up, thanks.

Jim jams

When I was a child, our teacher would threaten us with "the dap". Actually, being hit on the bottom with a plimsoll didn't hurt a lot, but maybe she was gentle with it.

Budgie smugglers.

When I was very small (just starting school at 4) I didn't realise that not everyone knew what a titfer was! I also told my teacher that I had been "Tom and Dick" at home, and had to explain to her what it meant (she lived in Barnet and had no idea!)

I still slip into my parents' language occasionally even now and say "frock" to my DGD - she just looks totally confused

Cossie for swim suit

In the WRAF in the 70s we called ladies knickers 22Bs (I think) after the supply code for the big ones we had for PE, also called NAAFI knickers. I can still hear the songs we sang about them in my head. Men’s undies were called shreddies.

In 1960 my Camberwell kids thought it hilarious that I (from Birmingham) called their plimsolls ‘pumps’. They were delighted when I put an ancient men’s size single plimsoll found in a cupboard in the bin. Apparently it was the previous teacher’s ‘slipper’ used for punishment.

Elrel - plimsolls were "pumps" for me in the NW too.