White Fashion Jocket

Description

The shirt was an item of clothing that only men could wear as underwear, until the twentieth century.^[2] Although the women’s chemise was a closely related garment to the men’s, it i

s the men’s garment that became the modern shirt.^[3] In the Middle Ages, it was a plain, undyed garment worn next to the skin and under regular garments. In medieval artworks, the shirt is only visible (uncovered) on humble characters, such as shepherds, pr

isoners, and penitents.^[4] In the seventeenth century, men’s shirts were allowed to show, with much the same erotic import as visible underwear today.^[5] In the eighteenth century, instead of underpants, men “relied on the long tails of shirts … to serve the function of drawers.^[6]