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A shirt and other shirt like garmets had several elements. Surely the most important is the collar. Commonly a shirt-like garment is called by the type of collar. This is because the collar is the most vissible element. A shirt-like garment might be covered by a sweater, vest, jacket or other garment. There are all kinds of different collars assocaited with these garmets. They varied in in desihn am\nd complexity. Some were very simple like eton collars. Others were complex like lace and ruffled collars. And ythey varied in sive. Some lace and ruffled collars were huge. Various styles in the 1860s barely peeped outside of jackets. Some of the styles were: button-down, eton, lace, Peter Pan, pointed, rounded, ruffled, sports, tab, wing, and many others. Here we think in the 1890s wesee boys wearing eton and klace collars (figure 1). collars And all of these were done in various sizes and with minor stylistic variations. There were also shirt-like garments without collars, like shirt waists and Russian blouses. Most of these various tyles were mostly worn by the Russian elient and growing middle-ckass. In the coyntryside among the large serf poopulatin, the Russian blouse style was not commomn, but by the turn-of-the 20th cntury the Russian blouse style had become widely worn by the elites as well.
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