Talk:Smoking jacket

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Do smoking jackets not absorb tobacco stench? The article hints at this, but doesn't actually say.

What's special about smoking jackets that prevents tobacco from lingering on them?

I don't know. I came here looking for the answer. /me research.

I don't believe there's anything particularly active in play. Tobacco (and other) smoke clings to all clothes, hairs and things very quickly and quite hard. I think the main point was to cover a fair bit of self (including waistcoat, shirt?) with something that can be taken off when finished and even more so not cause the stench to cling to ones "main" coat.


  1. 1 - I recommend we swap the picture of Saddam Hussein with Hugh Hefner. Same level of fame, not quite as repulsive, and Hef is certainly more associated with the clothing than Saddam is.
  1. 2 - Why isn't Hugh Hefner mentioned in the article stub? Like I said, he's practically synonymous with it. Kade 04:19, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Why "smoking" is called pseudo-loanword in this article? What is pseudo about it? I wanted to add Russian since "smoking" has the same meaning as in the mentioned languages. But this pseudо confused me.

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[edit] Pseudo

I assume it's called a "pseudo-" loanword because the word "smoking" is used by itself to refer to the jacket in these languages (i.e. it is used as a noun). It's not technically a loanword, then, because it's simply an adjective in the original language.

It is a loanword, because it is a word loaned from our language. The fact that it is mis-used, from our point of view, makes it a false friend or Pseudo-Anglicism. boffy_b 15:44, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Odour clinging to fabric

This is "original research" I guess, but I bought a second hand jacket that reeks of cigar smoke and those that my friends who smoke own also pick up odours. I think the use of the jacket is as something you wear to smoke, then remove to be in the presence of ladies.

[edit] Smoking to Smock

I always believed that the Smoking jacket came from a bastardization of Smock. Webhat (talk) 03:20, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Missing references

I added a "no references" tag to the article - does anyone know where any of the information in the article came from so we can put in some sources? Graymornings (talk) 13:34, 10 February 2008 (UTC)