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Originally Posted by HarryT
Not something that I personally possess, but yes, the word is certainly still used. It's the garment that Americans call a "vest" (a word which has an entirely different meaning in British English).
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That's a word that took me right out of
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl when I read it as a young girl. Anne said that her mother and sisters had only three vests between them and I couldn't picture women wearing vests. Of course had I known that vest meant undershirt, I still would have found it odd that women were wearing undershirts.