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Garment for the upper body

A shirt is a textile garment for the upper body (from the neck to the waist).

Originally an undergarment worn exclusively past men, it has go, in American English, a catch-all term for a broad variety of upper-body garments and undergarments. In British English, a shirt is more specifically a garment with a collar, sleeves with cuffs, and a full vertical opening with buttons or snaps (Due north Americans would call that a "dress shirt", a specific type of collared shirt). A shirt tin also be worn with a tie under the shirt collar.

History

The world'south oldest preserved garment, discovered by Flinders Petrie, is a "highly sophisticated" linen shirt from a Starting time Dynasty Egyptian tomb at Tarkan, dated to c. 3000 BC: "the shoulders and sleeves have been finely pleated to give class-plumbing fixtures trimness while allowing the wearer room to movement. The small fringe formed during weaving along i border of the cloth has been placed by the designer to decorate the cervix opening and side seam."^[one]

The shirt was an detail of habiliment that merely men could wearable as underwear, until the twentieth century.^[2] Although the women'south chemise was a closely related garment to the men's, information technology is the men'due south garment that became the modern shirt.^[iii] In the Center Ages, it was a manifestly, undyed garment worn next to the skin and nether regular garments. In medieval artworks, the shirt is only visible (uncovered) on humble characters, such as shepherds, prisoners, and penitents.^[4] In the seventeenth century, men's shirts were allowed to show, with much the same erotic import as visible underwear today.^[v] In the eighteenth century, instead of underpants, men "relied on the long tails of shirts ... to serve the function of drawers.^{[half dozen]} Eighteenth-century costume historian Joseph Strutt believed that men who did not wear shirts to bed were indecent.^[7] Even as late as 1879, a visible shirt with goose egg over it was considered improper.^[2]

The shirt sometimes had frills at the neck or cuffs. In the sixteenth century, men's shirts often had embroidery, and sometimes frills or lace at the cervix and cuffs and through the eighteenth-century long neck frills, or jabots, were stylish.^{[8] [9]} Coloured shirts began to announced in the early nineteenth century, as can be seen in the paintings of George Caleb Bingham. They were considered casual article of clothing, for lower-class workers only, until the twentieth century. For a gentleman, "to vesture a sky-blueish shirt was unthinkable in 1860, only had get standard by 1920 and, in 1980, constituted the most commonplace event."^[10]

European and American women began wearing shirts in 1860, when the Garibaldi shirt, a reddish shirt as worn by the freedom fighters under Giuseppe Garibaldi, was popularized past Empress Eugénie of France.^{[eleven] [12]} At the end of the nineteenth century, the Century Dictionary described an ordinary shirt as "of cotton wool, with linen bust, wristbands and cuffs prepared for stiffening with starch, the collar and wristbands being usually separate and adjustable".

The commencement documented appearance of the expression "To give the shirt off ane'due south back", happened in 1771 as an idiom that indicates extreme desperation or generosity and is still in common usage. In 1827 Hannah Montague, a housewife in upstate New York, invents the detachable collar. Tired of constantly washing her husband's entire shirt when only the collar needed information technology, she cut off his collars and devised a way of attaching them to the collar later on washing. It wasn't until the 1930s that collar stays became popular, although these early accessories resembled tie clips more than the minor collar stiffeners bachelor today. They connected the collar points to the tie, keeping them in identify^{[13] [ better source needed ]}

Types

• Army camp shirt – a loose, directly-cut, short sleeved shirt or blouse with a simple placket front-opening and a "military camp collar".
• Dress shirt – shirt with a formal (somewhat potent) collar, a total-length opening at the forepart from the collar to the hem (usually buttoned), and sleeves with cuffs
• White shirt – usually dress shirt which is white in colour
  • Dinner shirt – a shirt specifically made to be worn with male evening wear, e.chiliad. a black tie or white tie.
  • Guayabera – an embroidered clothes shirt with four pockets.
• Poet shirt – a loose-fitting shirt or blouse with total bishop sleeves, usually with large frills on the front and on the cuffs.
• T-shirt – too "tee shirt", a casual shirt without a neckband or buttons, made of a stretchy, finely knit fabric, ordinarily cotton, and commonly short-sleeved. Originally worn under other shirts, it is now a common shirt for everyday wear in some countries.^[fourteen]
  • Long-sleeved T-shirt – a T-shirt with long sleeves that extend to encompass the artillery.
  • Ringer T-shirt – tee with a separate piece of fabric sewn on every bit the collar and sleeve hems.
  • Raglan T-shirt – a T-shirt with a raglan sleeve; a sleeve that extends in one piece fully to the neckband, leaving a diagonal seam from underarm to collarbone.
  • Halfshirt – a high-hemmed T-shirt
  • Sleeveless shirt – a shirt manufactured without sleeves, or i whose sleeves have been cut off, besides called a tank top
    • A-shirt or belong or singlet (in British English) – essentially a sleeveless shirt with large armholes and a large neck hole, often worn by labourers or athletes for increased movability.
    • Camisole – woman's undershirt with narrow straps, or a similar garment worn lonely (often with bra). Also referred to as a cami, shelf acme, spaghetti straps or strappy height
• Polo shirt (likewise tennis shirt or golf shirt) – a pullover soft collar short-sleeved shirt with an abbreviated button placket at the cervix and a longer back than front end (the "tennis tail").
  • Rugby shirt – a long-sleeved polo shirt, traditionally of rugged construction in thick cotton or wool, only oft softer today
  • Henley shirt – a collarless polo shirt
• Baseball game shirt (jersey) – usually distinguished past a three-quarters sleeve, team insignia, and flat waist seam
• Sweatshirt – long-sleeved athletic shirt of heavier material, with or without hood
• Tunic – archaic shirt, distinguished by two-piece construction. Initially a men'due south garment, is unremarkably seen in modern times existence worn by women
• Shirtwaist – historically (circa. 1890–1920) a woman'due south tailored shirt (likewise called a "tailored waist") cut like a man's dress shirt;^[15] in contemporary usage, a woman'south dress cutting like a men's apparel shirt to the waist, and then extended into wearing apparel length at the bottom
• Nightshirt – often oversized, ruined or inexpensive light cloth undergarment shirt for sleeping.
• Halter meridian – a shoulderless, sleeveless garment for women. It is mechanically analogous to an frock with a string around the dorsum of the neck and across the lower back belongings information technology in place.
• Meridian shirt – a long-sleeved collarless polo shirt
• Heavy shirt – a shirt with the heavy size that covers upward under the neck
• Onesie or diaper shirt – a shirt for infants which includes a long back that is wrapped between the legs and buttoned to the front of the shirt
• Tube meridian (in American English) or boob tube (in British English) – a shoulderless, sleeveless "tube" that wraps the torso not reaching higher than the armpit, staying in place by elasticity or past a single strap that is attached to the front of the tube
• Punishment shirts were special shirts made for the condemned, either those cursed supernaturally, such as the poisoned shirt that killed Creusa (daughter of Creon), the Shirt of Nessus used to kill Hercules, those used to execute people in ancient Rome, such as the Tunica molesta, and those used in church heresy trials, such as the Shirt of Flame, or the Sanbenito

Parts of shirt

Many terms are used to describe and differentiate types of shirts (and upper-trunk garments in general) and their construction. The smallest differences may have significance to a cultural or occupational grouping. Recently, (late twentieth century, into the twenty-first century) it has become common to utilize tops as a form of advertisement. Many of these distinctions utilise to other upper-body garments, such as coats and sweaters.

Shoulders and arms

Sleeves

Shirts may:

• have no covering of the shoulders or arms – a tube top (not reaching higher than the armpits, staying in place by elasticity)
• have only shoulder straps, such every bit spaghetti straps
• embrace the shoulders, only without sleeves
• have shoulderless sleeves, short or long, with or without shoulder straps, that betrayal the shoulders, but embrace the rest of the arm from the biceps and triceps down to at least the elbow
• take short sleeves, varying from cap sleeves (covering only the shoulder and not extending below the armpit) to half sleeves (elbow length), with some having quarter-length sleeves (reaching to a signal that covers half of the biceps and triceps area)
• have iii-quarter-length sleeves (reaching to a point between the elbow and the wrist)
• accept long sleeves (reaching a point to the wrist to a little beyond wrist)

Cuffs

Main article: Cuff

Shirts with long sleeves may further be distinguished by the cuffs:

• no buttons – a closed placket cuff
• buttons (or analogous fasteners such equally snaps) – single or multiple. A single button or pair aligned parallel with the cuff hem is considered a button cuff. Multiple buttons aligned perpendicular to the cuff hem, or parallel to the placket institute a barrel gage.
• buttonholes designed for cufflinks
  • a French cuff, where the cease half of the gage is folded over the gage itself and fastened with a cufflink. This type of cuff has four buttons and a short placket.
  • more formally, a link cuff – fastened similar a French cuff, except is not folded over, but instead hemmed, at the edge of the sleeve.
• asymmetrical designs, such as one-shoulder, one-sleeve or with sleeves of different lengths.

Lower hem

• hanging to the waist
• leaving the omphalos surface area bare (much more than mutual for women than for men). Run across halfshirt.
• covering the crotch
• covering part of the legs (substantially this is a clothes; however, a slice of clothing is perceived either every bit a shirt (worn with trousers) or as a wearing apparel (in Western culture mainly worn by women)).
• going to the floor (as a pajama shirt)

Body

• vertical opening on the front side, all the style downwardly, with buttons or zipper. When fastened with buttons, this opening is ofttimes called the placket front.
• similar opening, merely in back.
• left and correct front side not separable, put on over the head; with regard to upper front end side opening:
  • V-shaped permanent opening on the top of the front side
  • no opening at the upper forepart side
  • vertical opening on the upper front side with buttons or attachment
    • men'southward shirts are unremarkably buttoned on the right whereas women's are usually buttoned on the left.^[16]

Neck

• with polo-neck
• with "scoop" cervix
• with five-cervix but no collar
• with plunging cervix
• with open or tassel neck
• with neckband
  • windsor neckband or spread collar – a dressier neckband designed with a broad distance between points (the spread) to accommodate the windsor knot tie. The standard concern collar.
  • tab collar – a collar with two small-scale fabric tabs that spike together behind a tie to maintain collar spread.
  • wing collar – best suited for the bow necktie, often merely worn for very formal occasions.
  • direct collar – or point neckband, a version of the windsor collar that is distinguished by a narrower spread to ameliorate conform the four-in-paw knot, pratt knot, and the one-half-windsor knot. A moderate dress neckband.
  • button-down collar – A collar with buttons that spike the points or tips to a shirt. The nigh casual of collars worn with a tie.
  • band collar – essentially the lower part of a normal neckband, get-go used as the original neckband to which a carve up collarpiece was attached. Rarely seen in mod fashion. Also casual.
  • turtle neck collar – A collar that covers about of the throat.
• without collar
  • • V-neck no neckband – The neckline protrudes down the breast and to a point, creating a "5"-looking neckline.

Other features

• pockets – how many (if any), where, and with regard to closure: non closable, just a flap, or with a push button or zipper.
• with or without hood

Some combinations are not applicable, e.g. a tube top cannot take a neckband.

Measures and sizes

The main measures for a jacket are:

• Shoulders
• Bust
• Waist
• Hip
• Sleeve
• Length, from the cervix to the waist or hip.

Sizes

• Asia Size M = US/European union Size XS.
• Asia Size 50 = US/Eu Size S.
• Asia Size Forty = US/Eu Size Yard.
• Asia Size XXL = Us/EU Size 50.
• Asia Size XXXL = US/EU Size 40.
• Asia Size XXXXL = US/European union Size XXL.

Types of fabric

There are two main categories of fibres used: natural fibre and man-made fibre (synthetics or petroleum based). Some natural fibres are linen, the starting time used historically, hemp, cotton wool, the well-nigh used, ramie, wool, silk and more recently bamboo or soya. Some constructed fibres are polyester, tencel, viscose, etc. Polyester mixed with cotton wool (poly-cotton) is ofttimes used. Fabrics for shirts are chosen shirtings. The 4 main weaves for shirtings are plain weave, oxford, twill and satin. Broadcloth, poplin and end-on-cease are variations of the plain weave. After weaving, finishing can exist practical to the fabric.

Shirts and politics

In the 1920s and 1930s, fascists wore dissimilar coloured shirts:

• Black shirts were used past the Italian fascists, and in Britain, Finland and Germany and Croatia.
• Brownshirts were worn by High german Nazis of the SA.
• The Blueshirts was a fascist move in Ireland and Canada, and the colour of the Portuguese Nacional Sindicalistas, the Spanish Falange Española, the French Solidarité Française, and the Chinese Blue Shirts Lodge.
• Green shirts were used in Hungary, Ireland, Romania, Brazil and Portugal.
• Camisas Doradas (aureate shirts) were used in Mexico.
• Red shirts were worn past the racist and antisemitic Bulgarian Ratniks.
• Silverish Shirts were worn in the United States of America.
• Grey shirts were worn by members of the Fatherland League in Kingdom of norway.

In add-on, red shirts have been used to symbolize a variety of different political groups, including Garibaldi's Italian revolutionaries, nineteenth-century American street gangs, and socialist militias in Spain and Mexico during the 1930s.

Different colored shirts signified the major opposing sides that featured prominently in the 2008 Thai political crunch, with cerise having been worn by the supporters of the populist People's Power Party (PPP), and yellow existence worn by the supporters of the royalist and anti-Thaksin Shinawatra movement the People's Brotherhood for Democracy (PAD). Each side is commonly referred to equally the 'reddish shirts' and 'yellow shirts' respectively, though the later opponents of the later Thaksin supporting groups take largely ceased wearing yellow shirts to protestation rallies.

In the Great britain, the Social Credit movement of the thirties wore green shirts.

The party leaders of Dravidar Kazhagam in India vesture only black shirts to symbolise atheism.

Industrial production

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  Shirt production line

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  Factory sewing

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  Shirts on a conveyor

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  Shirts awaiting finishing

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  Kids shirts for quality checking

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  Manufacturer and buyer reviewing product

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  Apparel shirt

Run into also

• Cardigan (sweater)
• Descamisado
• Jermyn Street, abode of the oldest English shirtmakers

References

1. ^ Barber, Elizabeth Wayland (1994). Women'south Piece of work. The first 20,000 Years, p.135. Norton & Company, New York. ISBN 0-393-31348-4
2. ^ ^{a b} William L. Brown Iii, "Some Thoughts on Men'southward Shirts in America, 1750-1900", Thomas Publications, Gettysburg, PA 1999. ISBN 1-57747-048-six, p. seven
3. ^ Dorothy 1000. Burnham, "Cut My Cote", Purple Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario 1973. ISBN 0-88854-046-9, p. 14
4. ^ C. Willett Cunnington and Phillis Cunnington, The History of Underclothes, Dover Publications Inc., New York 1992. ISBN 0-486-27124-ii pp. 23–25
5. ^ C. Willett and Phillis Cunnington, The History of Underclothes, Dover Publications Inc., New York 1992. ISBN 0-486-27124-2 pp. 54
6. ^ Linda Baumgarten, "What Clothes Reveal: The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America", The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia, in association with the Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut 2002, ISBN 0-300-09580-5, p. 27
7. ^ Linda Baumgarten, "What Clothes Reveal: The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America", The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia, in association with the Yale Academy Press, New Haven, Connecticut 2002, ISBN 0-300-09580-v, pp. 20-22
8. ^ C. Willet and Phillis Cunnington, "The History of Underclothes", Dover Publications Inc., New York 1992. ISBN 0-486-27124-2 pp. 36–39
9. ^ C. Willet and Phillis Cunnington, "The History of Underclothes", Dover Publications Inc., New York 1992. ISBN 0-486-27124-2 pp. 73
10. ^ Michel Pastoureau and Jody Gladding (translator), "The Devil's Material: A History of Stripes", Columbia University Press, New York 2001 ISBN 0-7434-5326-3, p. 65
11. ^ Anne Buck, "Victorian Costume", Ruth Bean Publishers, Carlton, Bedford, England 1984. ISBN 0-903585-17-0
12. ^ Young, Julia Ditto, "The Rise of the Shirt Waist", Good Housekeeping, May 1902, pp. 354–357
13. ^ "History of the Shirt :: Shirt Guide". Gant The states. Retrieved 2016-09-29 .
14. ^ "KYKU". kykuclothing.com.
15. ^ For example, meet Laura I. Baldt, A.M., Vesture for Women: Selection, Blueprint and Construction, J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, PA 1924 (second edition), p. 312
16. ^ Lewis, Danny (November 23, 2015). "Here's Why Men's and Women's Clothes Push button on Opposite Sides". Smithsonian magazine . Retrieved December 6, 2021.

External links

Wait upwards shirt in Wiktionary, the gratis dictionary.

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