SHIRT Dear friends,
The shirt we wearto day was different before 8 decades. A nostalgic look in to shirts and itsvariations. Nothing serious in this posting. Gopalakrishnan20-1-2022 Half shirts During schooladmission in 1949 my father stitched two half shirts for me. It was inserted through the head like presentday’s T shirt. The front was opened well below today’s T shirt and had afolding below it. Even while I was studying in high school, some teachers worethis type of shirt. Daily changing of shirt was never known on those days. The shirt clothes was thin and mostly inwhite or blue colours. These shirts were half sleeves shirt. There were twobuttons to close, at least one I used. Teachers also used a variation of shirtcalled Jibba onthose days. It was made in thin cloth, mostly white and full sleeve. Someteachers folded the sleeve up to elbow. Light brown colour Khadi cloth stitchedjibbas were not common. 2. Bush shirts Today we wear eitherfull sleeve or half sleeve bush shirts. Bush shirts were introduced in Kerala by1954’s.When I was in middle school, I had bush shirt- Front fully open shirt. On those days fullsleeves were common. Most students folded it up to elbow. While some teacherswore it full sleeve with buttons at cuff, many folded like students. Shirts hadeither two pockets or one pocket. These shirts are worn through shouldersinserting through hands. 3. Patti (Strip) While on the right sidebuttons were stitched, on the left side they were inserted in to the button hole. In this area a strip ofadditional cloth of the same colour was stitched to the end. It was very common the buttons in plasticbroke or came out of stitching during washing. In most homes needle box was there,new buttons were stitched in the position of broken one. Thin cotton cloth wasthe fabric-either white or plain colours or slight checks. In my school days nomale teachers used pants and as such tucking in was not known. In back sidealso two folding were made at equidistant from arm in the shirt. The ironingwas done keeping the fold. About 2decades back the stripe became obsolete. The back side fold for about an inchappeared in the centre of it. 4 Oval bottoms The first variationwas changing the bottom to oval in the sides. Now most shirts are stitched so only.This change came even in 1967, then changed to straight level and again changedin the last few years. 5. Introduction of terlin cloth In 1966’s a newfabric was introduced for shirt and pants. It was terlin. It required lessironing. In a few years teri-cotton was introduced which was more comfortable.Terri-cotton continued till about a decade ago. Tailors added additionalbuttons in the backside of the button side. This facilitated the same colourbutton stitching when replacement wanted. Stitching using nylon thread, buttoncoming out became less. 6Poliyester clothing By 1975 itself polyester shirting cloth appeared. Later polyestercotton shirts came. Now in the textile shops mostly we get polyester cotton 7 White colour clothing Now white colourcloth shirting is mostly used by Politicians. 8 T Shirts T shirts were verycostly when introduced and was a costly casual wear. Now most wears, even as anoffice wear. It is not stitched. It is a knit wear. 9. inside pocket One importantchange was introduction of inside pocket in the shirt. 10 Wearing of shirt. Even in my collegedays, shirt was not commonly worn in homes. Banian was worn. Now most wearshirts/T shirts in homes. 11. Tucking shirts In gentle man’sdress shirt is tucked in to pants, and shoe is worn in legs and neck tie isworn -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to thatha_patty+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/1505803161.262840.1642687729114%40mail.yahoo.com.
