Shirt
A shirt or shirt front is a garment that was worn around the turn of the century (1900), but also before. It usually consists of fabric-covered cardboard and is worn between the vest and shirt and tied on the back with cords.
Today you can only find a shirt in formal clothes under a tuxedo or tailcoat . The shirt front used to be attached to the actual shirt with a special screw construction.
However, there is also the variant of the sewn-on two-part shirt front (mostly made of piqué ), which is closed with tailcoat buttons .
Some of these variants have a fabric eyelet at the bottom. With this the shirt front is tightened over the top button of the tailcoat .