Details About 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. History The world's oldest preserved garment, discovered by Flinders Petrie , is a "highly sophisticated" linen shirt from a First Dynasty Egyptian tomb at Tarkan , dated to c. 3000 BC: "the shoulders and sleeves have been finely pleated to give form-fitting trimness while allow