Figure 1.--Shirt-like garments in the late19th century were done with long sleeves. This only begun to chne in the early-19th century. Even so until safter Worldf war I in the 1920s, mosdt boys wore ling sleeves in both the winter and summer. |
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The second major element of a shirt is the sleeves. There are various aspects to the sleeves, including the length, width and cuffs. They were done in both long and short lengths as well as an intermidiary length elbow length. We are just beginning to develop information on sleeves. We only have a preliminary assessment at this time. Early shirts had long sleeves. The only exception was early blouses. Here the blouses followed the designs of children's dresses which were made with short sleeves. A good example is two unidentfied siblings in the late-1850s. We see these short sleeved blouses in the 1840s and 50s, but less so in the 1860s.
By the the 1870s we only note long sleeves for both shirts and blouses. We firsr notice short-sleeved shirts in the 1900s. They were the sailor blouses done wiuth open square collars. We notice short-sleeved shirts in the 1920s. We also notice differn lengths, both tight fitting and much wider. Here there were vaiations. Blouses might have ballon sleeves and the shoulder. We also notice very voluminous sleees further down. These were populr in the mid-19th century. The sleeves wee also done with and without cuffs.
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