Not new, but I looked it up today and thought you might find it interesting.
Why Saskatchewan calls a hooded sweatshirt a 'bunny hug'
https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/why-saskatchewan-calls-a-hooded-sweatshirt-a-bunny-hug
https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/why-saskatchewan-calls-a-hooded-sweatshirt-a-bunny-hug
Not new, but I looked it up today and thought you might find it interesting.
15 Comments
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 217d
That's a loooong way down to get to:
"Named after a dance."
That being said, being named after a dance is just one theory. Truth is no one remembers anymore.
Growing up in Saskatchewan, my brain almost naturally began to delineate a difference between hooded sweaters with a zipper (hoodie) and hooded sweaters without a zipper (bunny hug). It's a completely arbitrary naming convention that my brain decided to pull from its ass one day. But it stuck and I continue to use it.
grey_maniac@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 217d
I also grew up in Saskatchewan, and I make the exact same arbitrary distinction.
lukecyca@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 216d
Same
No_Maines_Land@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 217d
100 years ago there was rabbit overpopulation. The pelts got turned into something akin to a pullover sweater with hood.
HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 217d
That's just a theory.
ElJefe@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 217d
Have to register to see the article. Save us a click, op.
HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 217d
Archive link
n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca · -2 pts · 217d
really? I didn't. Are you on Mobile or something?
swordgeek@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 217d
So why do Albertans call it a kangaroo jacket?
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 3 pts · 217d
ikidd@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 217d
We don't?
swordgeek@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 217d
We used to. Kangaroo jacket (AB) and bunny hug (SK) both were fairly common in the '70s, then kangaroo jacket kind of fell by the wayside.
ikidd@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 217d
In 54 years I've never heard it, but I'll take your word for it.
Bunny hug though, that's definitely a thing I've heard from people out of that PA area.
swordgeek@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 216d
Well now I'm curious. I'm 57 and the youngest of three, and I remember it from my youth.
ikidd@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 216d
The kangaroo jacket one actually makes some sort of sense, with the pouch on the front. I have no idea what bunny hug is supposed to be, maybe there was a brand in that area with that name.
Binzy_Boi@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 217d