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A poet shirt (also known as a poet blouse or pirate shirt) is a type of shirt made as a loose-fitting blouse with full bishop sleeves, usually decorated with large frills on the front and on the cuffs. [1] Typically, it has a laced-up V-neck opening, designed to pull over the head, but can have a full-length opening fastened by buttons.
Pussycat bow blouse designed by Elspeth Champcommunal for Worth London, 1945. A lavallière, also called a pussycat bow or pussybow, [1] is a style of neckwear worn with women's and girls' blouses and bodices. It is a bow tied at the neck, which has been likened to those sometimes put on "pussy cats". [2]
A blouse contained buttons down its full back. But later in the 20th century, garments for women were made with fewer buttons. Toward the end of the 20th century, the keyhole button closure became popular on dresses and blouses made of nylon or silk, popular fabrics at the time. These garments, which had a roomy fit, were made to be slipped ...
A button-down or button-down shirt is a dress shirt with a button-down collar – a collar having the ends fastened to the shirt with buttons. [ 1 ] A dress shirt is normally made from woven cloth , and is often accompanied by a tie , jacket , suit , or formalwear , but a dress shirt may also be worn more casually.
A modern striped bow tie neck blouse and a navy blue mini skirt. A camisole being used as a blouse.. A blouse (/ b l aʊ z, b l aʊ s, b l uː z /) [1] [2] is a loose-fitting upper garment that may be worn by workmen, peasants, artists, women, and children.
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. Top shirt – a long-sleeved collarless polo shirt; Heavy shirt – a shirt with the heavy size that covers up under the neck
From the early 19th century through the Edwardian period, the word waist was a term common in the United States for the bodice of a dress or for a blouse or woman's shirt.A shirtwaist was originally a separate blouse constructed like a shirt; i.e., of shirting fabric with turnover collar and cuffs and a front button closure.
Halterneck is a style of women's clothing strap that runs from the front of the garment around the back of the neck, generally leaving the upper back uncovered. [1] The name comes from livestock halters. [2] The word "halter" is of Germanic origin and means "holder" or "that which holds". [3].