Textiles and Dress

Dress shirt

In American English, a dress shirt, button shirt, button-front, button-front shirt, or button-up shirt — simply shirt in British English — is a garment with a collar and a full-length opening at the front, which is fastened using buttons or shirt studs. 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. A dress shirt is normally made from woven cloth, and is typically accompanied by a tie or bow tie, jacket, suit, or formalwear, but a dress shirt may also be worn more casually. In British English, "dress shirt" — "formal shirt" or "tuxedo shirt" in American English — means specifically the more formal evening garment, often with an embroidered decorative chest to be paired with a cummerbund, worn with black-tie dinner jacket or white-tie tailcoat. Some of these formal shirts have stiff fronts and detachable collars, either standing wing collar or fold-down collar, attached with collar studs.

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• ▸Bralessness
• ▸Château de Chinon
• ▸745 Fifth Avenue

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