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Chemises
“The chemise
seems to have been developed from the Roman tunica and first became popular in the
European Middle
Ages. Women wore shifts or chemises underneath their gowns or robes;
men wore chemises with theirtrousers or braies, and covered the chemises
with garments such as doublets, robes,
etc. In those times, it was usually the only piece of clothing that was washed
regularly.
In Western
countries, women's shirts did not fall out of fashion until the early 20th
century, when they were generally replaced by brassieres, panties, girdles,
and full slips.
Men's
chemises may be said to survive as the common T-shirt,
which still serves as an undergarment. The chemise also morphed into the smock-frock,
a garment worn by English laborers until the early 20th century. Its loose cut
and wide sleeves were well adapted to heavy labor. The name smock is nowadays still used for military
combat jackets in the UK, whereas in the Belgian army the term has been corrupted
to smoke-vest.”
(Source:Wikipedia.org)
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