Shirt’s History | Basic Information
A Shirt is a Cloth Garment for the Upper Body (From Neck to the Waist). Shirt Which We Used in Our Usual Life was Originally an Undergarment Worn exclusively by Men.In American English, A Catch-all term for a board variety of Upper-body Garments and Undergarments. In British English, A Shirt is More Specially a Garment with A Collar Sleeves with a Cuff and a full vertical opens with Buttons. A Shirt Can Also be Worn with a Necktie under the Shirt Collar. Century Dictionary described an Ordinary Shirts as "of Cotton, with linen bosom, Wristband and Cuffs prepared for Stiffening with Starch, Collar and Wristbands being usually Separate and Adjustable".
The Shirt Was an Item of Clothing that Only Men Could Wear as Underwear, until the twentieth Century. It is the Men Garments that become the Modern Shirt. In the Middle Ages, It was a Plain, Undyed garment Worn next to the Skin and Under the Regular Garments. In Medieval Artworks, the Shirt is only visible for the Humble Characters (Such as Shepherds, Prisoners and Penitents).
In the Seventieth Century Men's Shirt was Allowed to Show. In Eighteenth Century, Instead of Underpants Men relied on long tails of Shirts and In this Century long Nick frills or Jabots were fashionable. Colored Shirt began to appear in the early Nineteenth Century as can be the painting of the George Caleb Bingham. They Were Considered Casual Wear, for lower-class workers Only, Until the twentieth Century. For a gentleman, "To Wear a Sky Blue Shirt Was Unthinkable in 1860 But have become Standard by 1920, and in 1980 Constituted the most Commonplace Event".
European and American Women began to Wearing Shirt in 1860.
