Derek Guy on the Language of Clothing
Lexicon Valley
Lexicon Valley
4.8 • 611 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:31.4 | I'm Mike Volo. Bob Garfield is away this week. |
| 0:35.3 | On today's episode, a different kind of language. |
| 0:37.7 | I think of clothes as a type of social language. So for me, there are very few clothes that would be considered verboten just in the way that, |
| 0:42.5 | you know, there are many different words. |
| 0:43.7 | It's just how you string words together and what language you want to use and what you |
| 0:47.6 | want to express. |
| 0:49.0 | That's Derek Guy, and if he's right that clothes are a form of social language, then he is one of the most fluent speakers I know. |
| 0:59.0 | Guy writes about men's clothing at put this on.com, and he tweets often at dye workwear. |
| 1:05.9 | That's D-I-E workware. |
| 1:08.5 | When you read his stuff, you're reminded that fashion is its own dialect, really, |
| 1:15.4 | its own idiom. You know, it happens that three of my grandparents worked in the textile industry |
| 1:22.0 | when they came to this country, a seamstress, a garment worker, a loom operator. So I grew up with some of the |
| 1:30.9 | jargon. And to this day, every winter, I find myself indulging a minor obsession with |
| 1:39.4 | outer wear in particular. And I become something of a clothes horse. In my mind, mostly, not so much in particular. And I become something of a clotheshorse in my mind, mostly, not so much in reality, |
| 1:48.4 | but in theory at least I'm dressing like George Clooney and I'm steeped in the social language of |
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