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The cardigan was named after James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, a British Army major general who led the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War. [4] It is modelled after the knitted wool waistcoat that British officers supposedly wore during the war. The legend of the event and the fame that Lord ...
Sleeveless padded garment used as outerwear Gilet, body warmer [7] Vest, puffer vest [7] [8] Sleeveless garment used as outerwear Waistcoat [9] Vest, [8] tailored vest Sleeveless garment used as underwear Vest [8] Wifebeater, [10] undershirt [8] Sleeveless, legless, one piece infant garment with snap or other type of closure Vest, bodysuit
A British Army coatee from about 1815.. A coatee was a type of tight fitting uniform coat or jacket, which was waist length at the front and had short tails behind.The coatee began to replace the long tail coat in western armies at the end of the eighteenth century, but was itself superseded by the tunic in the mid nineteenth century.
Full-length trousers were worn, generally of a contrasting fabric. Costumes consisting of a coat, waistcoat and trousers of the same fabric (called a " ditto suit ") remained a novelty at this time. In domestic settings, the sack coat or a lounge jacket could be worn with a waistcoat and trousers of the same fabric.
A justacorps or justaucorps (/ ˈ ʒ uː s t ə k ɔːr /) [1] is a knee-length coat worn by men in the latter half of the 17th century and throughout the 18th century. It is of French origin, where it had developed from a cape-like garment called a casaque. [2]
It was also soon adopted as a popular women's fashion on both sides of the Atlantic during the 1790–1820 Regency style period [2] [3] [4] The spencer was worn as a cardigan, or as a short, fitted jacket cut to just above waist level, or, in Empire style, to the bust line, and tailored on identical lines to the dress.
Historically, camisole referred to jackets of various kinds, [10] including overshirts (worn under a doublet or bodice), [11] women's négligées, and sleeved jackets worn by men. [12] In modern usage, a camisole or cami is a loose-fitting [13] [14] [15] sleeveless undershirt which covers the top part of the body but is shorter than a chemise.
Women dropped the cumbersome underskirts from their tunic-and-skirt ensembles, simplifying dress and shortening skirts in one step. [8] By 1915, the Gazette du Bon Ton was showing full skirts with hemlines at calf length. These were called the "war crinoline" by the fashion press, who promoted the style as "patriotic" and "practical". [10]