Shirts and Bangladesh:

Actually, the trend of shirts in Bangladesh is coming from the British. From the colonial period, Bengali people meet the trend of shirts. Gradually, wearing a shirt becomes now a regular activity in Bangladesh. Both young, adults love to wear them. Women are also wearing them both for office and casual events. Mostly, corporate people, bankers, service holders, schools and colleges are using them frequently. In this article, we are going to introduce with you the definition, history, types of shirts, parts of shirts, other features and types of fabrics below:

What is a Shirt?

A shirt is a cloth garment for the upper body (from the neck to the waist). Originally an undergarment worn exclusively by men, it has become. 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 (North Americans would call that a “dress shirt”, a specific type of collared shirt). A shirt can also be worn with a necktie under the shirt collar.

Black and White Contrast Slim Fit Full Sleeve Shirt For Men

History Of Shirts:

Actually, shirts showed up first in European dress in the seventeenth century as a sort of clothing, intended to shield costly slips and outfit coats from sweat and soil. By the mid-eighteenth century, shirts had recognized criticalness as bits of clothing in their own one of a kind right. The supplement set by Beau Brummel and different dandies on wearing clean, consummately styled material brought the shirt into expanded evident quality as a primary male piece of clothing.

Vintage Style Seventeenth-Century Shirts for Male

Prior to the point of convergence of the nineteenth century, basically, those saw as men of regard could bear to wear white shirts, as just they had the best way to deal with the purchase, change, and wash them consistently. Since shirts annihilated so feasibly, men attracted with problematic work discovered it totally unfeasible to wear them. The movement of improved clothing techniques after the mid-nineteenth century extended the market for shirts, yet they stayed delegate of unique, or if nothing else “regulatory” office class men.

Seventeen Century Shirt For Men

Types of Shirts:

There are various types of shirts are available in the markets. Among

Camp shirt – a loose, straight-cut, short-sleeved shirt or blouse with a simple placket front-opening and a “camp collar”.

Slim Fit Half Sleeve Printed Camp Shirt For Men

Dress shirt – shirt with a formal (somewhat stiff) collar, a full-length opening at the front from the collar to the hem (usually buttoned), and sleeves with cuffs.

Various Color Full Sleeve Shirts for Men in Bangladesh

1. White shirt – usually a dress shirt which its color is white. Simple appearance with chest pocket or without chest pocket. Usually, have a full sleeve and button closure in the cuff.

Plain White Color Full Sleeve Shirt For Men in Bangladesh

2. Dinner shirt – a shirt specifically made to be worn with male evening wear, e.g. a black tie or white tie.

Dinner Shirt For Men

3. Guayabera – an embroidered dress shirt with four pockets. Slim Fit and half sleeve casual shirt. Obviously, cropped length and color full happy look shirt.

Light Green Color Slim Fit Half Sleeve Guayabera Shirt For Men

Poet shirt – a loose-fitting shirt or blouse with full bishop sleeves, usually with large frills on the front and on the cuffs. They are also very thin and comfortable to wear.

Poet Shirt of Seventeenth-Century for Male

T-shirt – also “tee-shirt”, a casual shirt without a collar or buttons, made of a stretchy, finely knit fabric, usually cotton, and usually short-sleeved. Originally worn under other shirts, it is now a common shirt for everyday wear in some countries.

Yellow Color Chest Printed T-shirt For Male

1.  Long-sleeved T-shirt – a T-shirt with long sleeves that extend to cover the arms.

Navy Color Full Sleeve Slim Fit T-shirt

2. Ringer T-shirt – tee with a separate piece of fabric sewn on as the collar and sleeve hems.

Ringer T-shirt for Men in BD

3. Half shirt – a high-hemmed T-shirt. The cropped length and  Slim Fit fitting and simple designs are general in this type of shirt.

Cropped Length Casual Half Sleeve Shirt for Men

Sleeveless shirt – a shirt manufactured without sleeves, or one whose sleeves have been cut off, also called a tank top. More Comfortable for summer and also good to stay trendy and fashionable with it.

Black And White Sleeveless Check Shirt For Men

A-shirt or vest or singlet (in British English) – essentially a sleeveless shirt with large armholes and a large neck hole, often worn by laborers or athletes for increased movability.

Slim Fit Singlet Sleeveless Shirt For Men

Camisole – woman’s undershirt with narrow straps, or a similar garment worn alone (often with bra). Also referred to as a cami, shelf top, spaghetti straps or strappy top.

Ladies Slim Fit Camisole Shirts

Polo shirt (also tennis shirt or golf shirt) – a pullover soft collar short-sleeved shirt with an abbreviated button placket at the neck and a longer back than front (the “tennis tail”).

Men-Slim-Fit-tennis-shirt-outdoor-sport-clothing-kit

Rugby shirt – a long-sleeved polo shirt, traditionally of rugged construction in thick cotton or wool, but often softer today.

Rugby Shirts For Men in Bangladesh

Henley shirt – a collarless polo shirt. Actually it is a round neck button closure shirt. Both full and half sleeves are available.

Light Navy Color Full Sleeve Caller Less Shirt For Men

Baseball shirt (jersey) – usually distinguished by a three-quarters sleeve, team insignia, and flat waist seam.

Black Color White Stripe Half Sleeve V-neck Baseball Shirt For Men

Sweatshirt – long-sleeved athletic shirt of heavier material, with or without a hood. Basically, they have a round neck.

Black Color Sweet Shirt for Men

Tunic – primitive shirt, distinguished by two-piece construction. Initially, a men’s garment is normally seen in modern times being worn by women.

Navy and off white contrast half sleeve Tunic Shirt for Men

Shirtwaist – historically (circa. 1890–1920) a woman’s tailored shirt (also called a “tailored waist”) cut like a man’s dress shirt; in contemporary usage, a woman’s dress cut like a men’s dress shirt to the waist, then extended into dress length at the bottom.

Shirtwaist For Women

Nightshirt – often oversized, ruined or inexpensive light cloth undergarment shirt for sleeping.

Nightshirt For Men

Halter top – a shoulderless, sleeveless garment for women. It is mechanically analogous to an apron with a string around the back of the neck and across the lower back holding it in place.

Halter top For Women

Top shirt – a long-sleeved collarless polo shirt. V-neck collar with cropped length is another unique attribute of the top shirt.

Top Shirt For Women

Heavy shirt – a shirt with the heavy size that covers up 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 top (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 by a single strap that is attached to the front of the tube.

Tube Top or Boob Top for Women

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-body garments in general) and their construction. The smallest differences may have significance to a cultural or occupational group. Recently, (late twentieth century, into the twenty-first century) it has become common to use tops as a form of advertisement. Many of these distinctions apply to other upper-body garments, such as coats and sweaters.

Different Parts of Shirts

Shoulder and Arm:

Shirts may have no covering of the shoulders or arms – a tube top (not reaching higher than the armpits, staying in place by elasticity)They have only shoulder straps, such as spaghetti straps also cover the shoulders, but without sleeves. On the other hand, they have shoulderless sleeves, short or long, with or without shoulder straps, that expose the shoulders. But cover the rest of the arm from the biceps and triceps down to at least the elbow
have short sleeves.

Shoulder and arm

Actually they are 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 point that covers half of the biceps and triceps area). However, they have three-quarter-length sleeves (reaching to a point between the elbow and the wrist). Also, have long sleeves (reaching a point to the wrist to a little beyond the wrist)

Cuffs:

Shirts with long sleeves may further be distinguished by the cuffs. First, no buttons – a closed placket cuff. Second,
buttons (or analogous fasteners such as snaps) – single or multiple.  The third one, a single button or pair aligned parallel with the cuff hem is considered a button cuff. Also, multiple buttons aligned perpendicular to the cuff hem, or parallel to the placket constitute a barrel cuff. The fourth one, buttonholes designed for cufflinks.

Fifth one is a French cuff, where the end half of the cuff is folded over the cuff itself and fastened with a cufflink. Also, this type of cuff has four buttons and a short placket.

types of shirt cuffs

The sixth one is, more formally, a link cuff – fastened like a French cuff, except is not folded over, but instead hemmed, at the edge of the sleeve. On the other hand, asymmetrical designs, such as one-shoulder, one-sleeve or with sleeves of different lengths. Other features are lower hem, hanging to the waist, leaving the belly button area bare (much more common for women than for men).

See half-shirt. Also, covering the crotch, covering part of the legs (essentially this is a dress; however, a piece of clothing is perceived either as a shirt (worn with trousers) or as a dress (in Western culture mainly worn by women)). going to the floor (as a pajama shirt)

Body:

First of all, vertical opening on the front side, all the way down, with buttons or zippers. When fastened with buttons, this opening is often called the placket front. Also, similar opening, but in back. Then left and right front side not separable put on over the head; with regard to the upper front side opening.  Actually, V-shaped permanent opening on the top of the front side, no opening at the upper front side. And vertical opening on the upper front side with buttons or zippers. Also, men’s shirts are often buttoned on the right whereas women are often buttoned on the left.

Men shirt anatomy

Neck:

There are a few types of neck designs that are popular in the market such as:  a polo-neck,  scoop neck, v-neck but no collar, plunging neck, open or tassel neck with collar. Other than that there is more neck design which we are going to reveal below:

Windsor collar or spread collar – a dressier collar designed with a wide distance between points (the spread) to accommodate the Windsor knot tie. The standard business collar.

Windsor collar or spread collar

Tab collar – a collar with two small fabric tabs that fasten together behind a tie to maintain collar spread.

Tab Collar Shirt

Wing collar – best suited for the bow tie, often only worn for very formal occasions.

Wing Collar Shirt

Straight collar – or point collar, a version of the Windsor collar that is distinguished by a narrower spread to better accommodate the four-in-hand knot, pratt knot, and the half-Windsor knot. A moderate dress collar.

Straight Collar Shirt

Button-down collar – A collar with buttons that fasten the points or tips to a shirt. The most casual of collars worn with a tie.

Button-Down Collar

Band collar – essentially the lower part of a normal collar, first used as the original collar to which a separate collar piece was attached. Rarely seen in modern fashion. Also casual.

band-collar-shirt

Turtle neck collar – A collar that covers most of the throat.
without collar

Turtleneck Collar

V-neck no collar – The neckline protrudes down the chest and to a point, creating a “V”-looking neckline.

V-neck Collar

Other features:

Pockets – how many (if any), where, and with regard to closure: not closable, just a flap, or with a button or zipper.
with or without a hood. Some combinations are not applicable, e.g. a tube top cannot have a collar.

Shirt Pockets

Measures and sizes: 

The main measures for a shirt are Shoulder, Bust, Waist, Hip, Sleeve, Length, from the neck to the waist or hip.

Sizes
M Size Asia= US/EU Size XS.
L Size  Asia = US/EU Size S.
XL Size Asia = US/EU Size M.
XXL Size  Asia  = US/EU Size L.
XXXL Size Asia = US/EU Size XL.
XXXXL Size Asia  = US/EU Size XXL.

Types of fabric

There are two main categories of fibers used: natural fiber and man-made fiber (synthetics or petroleum-based). Some natural fibers are linen, the first used historically, hemp, cotton, the most used, ramie, wool, silk and more recently bamboo or soya. Some synthetic fibers are polyester, Tencel, viscose, etc. Polyester mixed with cotton (poly-cotton) is often used. Fabrics for shirts are called shirtings. The four main weaves for shirtings are plain weave, oxford, twill, and satin. Broadcloth, poplin and end-on-end are variations of the plain weave. After weaving, finishing can be applicable to the fabric.