The mind boggles

Elon Musk (one of the most famous South Africans in the world at the moment), called his son this…

And, where I come from these kinds of tops are usually worn by surfers or white guys with dreadlocks and thai fishing pants who went to Thailand once and petted drugged tigers. I was gobsmacked to see that their colloquial name is ‘drug rugs’…I kid you not

 

Author: Janet Carr

Fashion, beauty and animal loving language consultant from South Africa living in Stockholm, Sweden.

3 thoughts

  1. Those Baja hoodies are called drug rugs because they were originally made out of hemp. They are considered part of the hippie sub-culture before being adopted by Californian surfers. Nowadays many people wear them but they still carry a connotation.

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