A shirt is a coat worn between an inner coat and an outer coat, or it can be worn alone.

There were shirts in China in the Zhou Dynasty, which were then called Zhong Yi and later Zhong Dan. In the Han dynasty, a close-fitting shirt was called a toilet. The name of the shirt was used in the Song Dynasty. Now it's called China shirt.

A shirt is a short-sleeved undershirt used to line a dress. That is, the shirt is removed at the sleeve head. In the Song Dynasty, there were sleeveless shirts lined with short shirts and long gowns outside. For example, in Water Margin Lin's Snow Mountain Gods, Lin Chong "shook off all the snow and took off his white shirt" is an example. In ancient times, the tops worn by women were called "shirts" and "overskirt". Yuan Zhen, a writer in the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem in Miscellaneous Notes, which said, "I remember a pair of shirts and a thin shirt".

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, due to the spread of European style, people began to wear suits, wearing shirts as shirts under suits and ties with five buttons in the middle.

Shirts, like now, are often only used as supporting roles before they are worn on the surface, and there are many ways to wear them. The role of shirts, from underwear to underwear, can be traced back to the late 1600 s, and tops and vests appeared in men's wear. It produces the way that the shirt is worn under the vest and in the middle of the coat, which is very common in modern suit styles. It can also be said that the styles of the collar and cuffs exposed from the coat were established at this time.

After entering the 1700 s, shirts with big waist and big sleeves began to appear. You can see the slit in the front of the shirt and the decorative lace and pleats on the chest. The cuffs are also ruffled, and the wrists are covered with ruffled lace, which is the most authentic aristocratic dress at that time.

After the coat and vest are fixed, the shirt becomes very thin. But the upper class gave him new meaning. Keeping the shirt neat and tidy, wearing a white shirt is considered as a new status symbol. "Don't use perfume on shirts, there are many linen shirts. Washing clothes with pure tap water and air in a country cottage has become an aesthetic declaration of gentlemen. This is a revolution for shirts soaked in perfume and body odor. Whether there are all kinds of shirts, whether they are willing to spend money on them, and whether they are kept clean and tidy have also become the main basis for judging their social status.

Shirt made of 1850 (length 94cm) (width 7 1cm), small stand collar, half width about 2cm, buttons in the back center. On the front, there are three pleats (decorative buttons) in the middle, and the cuffs are double cuffs. Hard paste on the front. Buttons fit as well as tacks and are decorated with jewels.

/kloc-in the late 1980 s, the collar was almost as high as the ear and the color was white. Replacement collars are also sold, most of which are 10cm, and high-necked shirts with 12cm also appear. When studying in London, Soseki talked about changing collars in summer-fashionable men with high collars and suits. This is the era. In Japan, as in Europe, it is said that "high collar" is about 1cm from the cuff of a coat.

1900, black and white, red and white, lavender and white, big stripe patterns were very popular in America. Two-color turtleneck shirts on the chest are very popular. ,

1906 Starting with formal shirts and colored vertical collars, folded collars are common.

19 16 detachable collars became popular.

Henry shirts with lapels and without lapels are very popular.

19 17 elephant soft-necked shirts have become popular in the market. Most styles are low-necked and low-waisted.

19 18 was after the first world war. At that time, silk shirts were popular because of prosperity. This craze continues at 192 1.

1928 is the time when colored shirts start to look up. The colors of Princeton in Ivy League schools are as diverse as before.

Subsequently, with the development of the secondary industry, the number of white-collar workers increased, and the standard styles of suits for gentlemen and business people were also determined. Shirts are gradually popularized with white as the center in matching suits and ties, and chemical fiber is also developed from cotton. Functional processing such as shrink-proof and wrinkle-proof has also been developed, and the price has also been reduced, gradually making shirts enter the homes of ordinary people and become popular clothing. This kind of shirt is characterized by easy care of materials and even no need to iron for life. On the other hand, it has also opened the prelude to the branding and segmentation of shirts, and the use of high-grade pure cotton fabrics and tailor-made high-grade lining has gradually appeared. This kind of shirts pay more attention to their own fabrics and production technology, and the fabrics are more elegant and the technology is more complicated, so as to satisfy the middle class and those who pursue taste and quality life. In this way, shirts have developed into modern times, and gradually formed a polarization between popularization and quality.