Korea president Moon Jae-in expressed his thanks to Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday for sending him "Modi jackets".

Moon uploaded photos of him wearing the jackets in a Twitter post, saying they "fit great."

"This is a Modi jacket modified from a traditional Indian outfit so that it can be worn with ease in South Korea too," Moon said in the message. "During my visit to India, I told Prime Minister Modi that what he was wearing looked great, and he sent me some exactly my size. I thank him for his great kindness."

The jackets sent to Moon were labelled 'Modi Jackets' presumably because they have almost become synonymous with the PM.  

In fact, these jackets are popularly called the Nehru jacket named after India's first prime minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru who popularised the outfit and was known as much for his intellect as for his keen sartorial sense.

Former J-K CM Omar Abdullah aptly tweeted, "It's really nice of our PM to send these but could he not have sent them without changing the name? All my life I've known these jackets as Nehru jackets & now I find these ones have been labelled "Modi Jacket". Clearly nothing existed in India before 2014."