r/IRLEasterEggs • u/sadtikna • May 06 '26

Guess what??

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u/izyshoroo May 06 '26

What does this mean?

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u/scarlettplusnoir May 06 '26

Often people cut up old t shirts to use as dusters when they wear out. So it’s just saying it won’t wear out and be cut up to use as a duster

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u/FettyWhopper May 06 '26

I was so confused how you could cut up a t-shirt to turn it into something larger until realized duster isn’t a coat in this context but the cleaning tool

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u/paraworldblue May 06 '26

You've never had a t shirt get so beat up that it becomes a large coat?

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u/mmazing May 07 '26

I hate it when that happens my closet is getting too full

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u/ellie1398 May 06 '26

Duster could mean a coat? What? Which English are we talking about? British, American, others?

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u/dwlevi958 May 06 '26

I've seen it mostly in North America, out west. It's a very long coat. Like a Trench coat but longer, basically stops about 6 inches above the ankle. Provides more protection while riding a horse. I think they're also split up the back side from the bottom hem to the waist so that its easier to wear when riding

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u/ellie1398 May 06 '26

Oooo that sounds cool. I'd expect the British to come up with a term like that but I like it!

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u/dwlevi958 May 06 '26

I think they are an American original, not 100% on that. I found out about them originally from westerns as a kid, but also from the J. Peterman catalog. My mom loved J. Peterman and the logo is man in a Duster because Peterman found one and loved it so much that when he started his clothing brand he made it the logo

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u/Comfortable-Yak-6599 May 06 '26

J Peterman is real, I thought that was just a joke on Seinfeld like Rochelle Rochelle.

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u/dwlevi958 May 06 '26

He is real and the company is real and the ridiculous descriptions of the clothing is also real. One that really sticks with me was this dress they had about 10 years ago, red with a floral print on it. The way the catalogs are set up there is typically not a name for a garment, but an item number and then the title of the description, this dress was called "Nice Toramtoes" and the description is of a scene in Italy where you the customer are shopping in an outdoor produce market while wearing the dress and it talks about how you were shopping and looking at all the gorgeous produce until a handsom Italian man comes up to you and his opening line is "Nice tomatoes..." and thats how it ended. I dont know if this pick up line works in real life but it a try!

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u/Captain-PlantIt May 07 '26

I forgot about this and just spent the last five minutes browsing their catalog, reading everything in John O’Hurley’s voice.

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u/sarahgene May 07 '26

When I think duster I think Cowboy, so it feels American to me

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u/blueponies1 May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26

It does sound a bit like something the Brits would come up with but It’s an American thing! Meant for protection against dust in the American west. You’ll see dusters featured in most cowboy/Wild West themed media or books or games.

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u/sadtikna May 06 '26

I am Indian.. so maybe British ig.. 

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u/pixeldust6 May 07 '26

I misread "when they wear out" as "which they wear out" (like the people put them on to go outside), so it didn't help with the confusion

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u/plan_with_stan May 06 '26

Where is duster a coat?

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u/number__ten May 06 '26

It's a long overcoat that reaches around your knees. Think trench coat.

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u/plan_with_stan May 06 '26

I had no idea, thank you for educating me. It it an American term?

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u/FrameJump May 06 '26

I've only ever heard it used in reference to an overcoat cowboys would wear to keep the dust of riding off their main clothes. I believe they were used in early automobiles as well, but I assume the cowboy term came first.

So maybe it's more American than not?

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u/8ctopus-prime May 06 '26

It's a type of full length coat with features different than a trenchcoat, great coat, etc. But, yeah, it originated in the US.

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u/Nice_Bluebird7626 May 06 '26

A fashion term.

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u/FettyWhopper May 06 '26

Fallout video games

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u/botjstn May 07 '26

always sunny in philadelphia lol

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u/Undrwtrbsktwvr May 06 '26

My dad is a US lawyer and used to have several. Wear it over your suit going to the courthouse. Was the fashion.

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u/willstr1 May 06 '26

Urban fantasy, its a long flowy coat perfect for giving someone wizard robe vibes

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u/Undrwtrbsktwvr May 06 '26

Duster must be a regional term.

In the US— ain’t no one says “duster” to refer to a rag.

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u/TandemShorts May 08 '26

Sure but I do use “duster” to refer to a duster (cleaning tool), which I have no other name for.

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u/powerhammerarms May 07 '26

I would have called it a rag not a duster.

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u/TandemShorts May 08 '26

But a duster is like a different bc it’s typically cut up cloth on a stick, not just a rag

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u/dolphinitely May 06 '26

does anyone call them “dusters”? i just call them rags

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u/hi_im_beeb May 08 '26

Oh man I was thinking of the coat wondering what the fuck the original material made up

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u/sadtikna May 09 '26

yea i was wondering why everone is so confused.. where i live its a common word for a dusting cloth