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Mind your language

Word of the Week: If your jacket isn't blazing, don't call it a 'blazer'

28 September 2013

9:00 AM

28 September 2013

9:00 AM

‘It’s not right, is it?’ said Veronica, pointing to a poster for H&M women’s blazers at £17.I agreed. But she meant it was not right to sell clothes for so little,if it required people abroad to work for such low wages. I meant that it was not right to call the garment a blazer.

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