Seattle Jargon?
The Morning News offers up a list of New York jargon, but one of the items is suspiciously applicable to Seattle:
Patagroupie (noun): A city-dweller who wears mountaineering clothing for doing laundry or grocery shopping. [#]
Uh huh. So how about you, dear readers? Have any of your own Seattle jargon?
My friends in Boulder use the term "prowhore" for the same thing.
-tim
patagroupie is really unfair to other brands of outdoor wear. Columbia’s omni-dri t-shirts are also really awesome for laundry day.
Alternate jargon – "whore-tex"; denoting outdoor clothing worn by a person who never actually goes camping/hiking/backpacking/climbing/fishing.