British Clothing
Using the American term for this, Gilbert & Sullivan’s operetta is “H.M.S. Apron”.
What is a pinafore?
After 1510, Africans began replacing the Indians as these in the new world.
What are slaves?
Middle East country whose capital is Kuwait City.
What is Kuwait?
Once worn mostly for cosmetic reasons, it was common to take them out before meals.
What are dentures?
Santa has one, and he checks it twice.
What is a list?
A Briton would have these “turn-ups” put on his trousers, not his plate.
What are cuffs?
Hard quartz used by Indians as arrowheads & fire starters.
What is flint?
NBC’s “Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color” was 1st broadcasted this way in 1961.
What is in color?
A former book seller began this cosmetics company in 1886, later naming it after the Bard’s River.
What is Avon?
“Man of red earth” in Hebrew, since it’s said God used red clay for the 1st man.
Who is Adam?
What a British sports fan wears sitting around in his “vest” drinking beer & watching the telly.
What is an undershirt?
This S.W. tribe of Indians came to name a criminal element in Faraway Paris.
What is Apache?
Of a pound of bricks, a pound of feathers, or a pound of iron, the 1 which weighs the most.
What is none, they all weigh the exact same?
Before this was developed, people relied on perfume, talcum powder, & bicarbonate of soda.
What is deodorant?
In polite society, you can do it with a basketball but not with a doughnut.
What is dunk?
A man could get arrested for wearing these British “knickers” to play golf.
What are underpants?
The English named this tribe for the many steams that ran through their southern U.S. domain.
What are the Creek Indians?
The radio show “Hear It Now” became this when adapted for television.
What is See It Now?
The 2nd century Greek, Galen, was 1st to give a skin care product this “cool” name.
What is cold cream?
Dogs do this to cool off.
What is pant?
Part of the body where women wear “winklepickers”.
What is their feet?
This same Indian word means a ceremony, a medicine man, or most often, a political meaning.
What is a pow-wow?
Until beaten by United 25 years ago, this airline was #1 in America.
What is American Airlines?
Romans used to shadow their eyelids gold with this, the world’s most expensive spice.
What is saffron?
A watery way to rest tired feet.
What is soak?