Tops Tops An abadá is a shirt that you buy that allows you to "play" or follow inside the ropes the trucks that the carnival bands play on in Salvador and other cities. Without the abadá, you can not be inside the roped-off area for the band. ...more on Wikipedia about "Abadá"
The Aloha shirt, known to non-natives as the Hawaiian shirt, is a style of dress shirt originating in Hawai‘i, a state of the United States. It is currently the premier textile export of the Hawai‘i manufacturing industry. Often short-sleeved, Aloha shirts exported to the mainland United States and elsewhere are often brilliantly colored with floral patterns or generic Polynesian motifs and are worn as casual, informal wear. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aloha shirt"
The Aran sweater, which takes its name from the Aran Islands, was popular in the fishing villages on and islands off the West Coast of Ireland. Most of the people in these towns made their living from farming and fishing - with the harsh climate creating a need for warm protective and practical clothing. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aran sweater"
A baby tee is a T-shirt designed for a baby or young child. It can also be a close-fitting, often short T-shirt worn especially by young women and teenage girls. ...more on Wikipedia about "Baby tee"
Bellyshirt is a style of short t-shirt (short-sleeved athletic shirt) which exposes the wearer's midriff. Though several cultures around the world have featured midriff-bearing tops for centuries, the style became a temporary men's fad in the United States in the 1980's. Originally based on American football jerseys which were cropped above the navel to provide players relief when playing in excessively hot weather, it became popular to cut t-shirts above the midriff for daily wear. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bellyshirt"
Big Johnson is a line of humorous T-shirts created in the late 1980s and is still in production. The shirts became a fad because of suggestive humor, employing double entendre. Designs follow the exploits of E. Normus Johnson and whatever object or job he happens to have, which is refered to as his "Big Johnson". For example, "Big Johnson Mud Tires: No hole's too deep or sloppy when you've got a Big Johnson." Art usually contains several pop culture references that may (or may not) deal with the subject. ...more on Wikipedia about "Big Johnson"
A blouse most commonly refers to a woman's shirt, although the term is also used for some men's military uniform shirts. ...more on Wikipedia about "Blouse"
A cardigan is a type of sweater/ jumper with buttons down the front. It was named after James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, a British military commander, during his service in the Crimean War. It is usually machine or hand knitted from wool. Cardigans are available for both sexes but recent fashions have resulted in them being more typically worn by women and fashion-forward men. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cardigan (sweater)"
A coat (a term frequently interchangeable with jacket) is an outer garment worn by both men and women, for warmth or fashion. Coats typically have long sleeves and open down the front, closing by means of buttons, zippers, hook-and-loop fasteners, toggles, a belt, or a combination of these. ...more on Wikipedia about "Coat (clothing)"
Crop tops (also cropped tops) are blouses that are cut off, resulting in the exposure of some of the wearer's abdomen. ...more on Wikipedia about "Crop top"
A cuttie is a t-shirt that has had the sleeves removed. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cuttie"
Halterneck refers to a type of women's clothing with one strap around the back of the neck instead of two over the shoulders. This can either refer to a dress or a top, called a halter top a type of sleeveless shirt similar to a tank top (in the American English meaning of the phrase). ...more on Wikipedia about "Halterneck"
A hoodie (sometimes also spelled hoody) is a sweatshirt with a hood. Some pullover hoodies also have a large pocket across the front called a kangaroo pocket, and many feature a logo. Some hoodies also have strings that can be pulled to tighten or loosen the hood. Other common hoodie styles are the zip-up, which cannot feature a kangaroo pocket, as the pocket would be bifurcated by the zip, and the half-zip which can feature a kangaroo pocket as the zip starts above the pocket. Typical materials are cotton, polyester or a blend of the two. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hoodie"
A jacket is a lightweight, thigh- or waist-length coat that may be worn by adults or children. Some jackets are fashionable, while others serve as protective clothing. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jacket"
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A jersey is a item of knitted clothing, traditionally in wool or cotton, with sleeves, worn as a pullover; this is to say, it does not open at the front, unlike a cardigan. It is usually close-fitting and machine knitted in contrast to a guernsey that is more often hand knit with a thicker yarn. The word is usually used interchangeably with sweater and is the name always officially used in the United Kingdom to refer to the item when worn as part of the uniform of military, police or other uniformed personnel. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jersey (clothing)"
A kurtka is the generic word for a jacket in a number of European languages, most notably in Polish and Russian. The word itself is a Slavic diminutive of the original Hungarian word kurta, which in turn was derived of the Romanian word scurtă. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kurtka"
The muumuu or mumu is a loose dress of Hawaiian origin that hangs from the shoulder. Like the Aloha shirt, muumuu exports are often brilliantly colored with floral patterns of generic Polynesian motifs designed for casual, informal wear. Muumuu for local Hawai'i residents are more subdued in tone, adorned with traditional Hawaiian quilt designs in muted colors. Muumuus are not as widely worn at work as the aloha shirt. Bell-shaped muumuus are also popular as maternity gowns because they do not restrict the waist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Muumuu"
A Rugby shirt, often refered to as a jersey, is a shirt worn for either Rugby union or Rugby league. It usually has short sleeves, though long sleeves are common as well. ...more on Wikipedia about "Rugby shirt"
A shirt is a piece of clothing for the trunk of the body. ...more on Wikipedia about "Shirt"
A sweater, pullover, jumper or jersey is a relatively heavy garment intended to cover the torso and arms of the human body (though in some cases sweaters are made for dogs and occasionally other animals) and typically supposed to go over a shirt, blouse, t-shirt or other top. Sweaters tend to be, and in earlier times always were, made from wool (typically of sheep, though possibly of alpaca or other type), however, they can be made of cotton, synthetic fibres or some combination thereof. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sweater"
A T-shirt (or tee shirt) is a shirt, usually buttonless, collarless and pocketless, with a round neck and short sleeves, pulled on over the head. There are also long-sleeved T-shirt and sleeveless T-shirt variants. ...more on Wikipedia about "T-shirt" You are visiting www.shortopedia.com
In American English, a tank top is a sleeveless shirt that can be worn by either sex. The term is also used in Australian English, although the term singlet is more common in Australia. In British English, the term vest is used and a tank top is a sleeveless pullover. The name derives from its resemblance to a tank suit, a style of one-piece women's swimsuit with shoulder straps. ("Tank suit" in turn refers to "swimming tank," an obsolete term for what are now called " swimming pools.") ...more on Wikipedia about "Tank top"
A tennis shirt, also called a polo shirt or a golf shirt, is a T-shaped shirt with a collar, (typically) two or three buttons down a slit below the collar, two small slits on the bottom of either side, and an optional pocket. Today, they are often made of cotton, silk, or even merino wool. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tennis shirt"
The Arrow Collar Man was an advertising campaign started by the Maullin & Blanchard of Troy, New York to promote their Arrow shirts with detachable collars. In 1905 the company began an advertising campaign that featured ...more on Wikipedia about "The Arrow Collar Man"
The North Face is an outdoor product manufacturing company. It specializes in jackets, fleecewear, luggage, and shoes, designed to withstand the forces of nature, and the clothing and equipment lines are catered towards climbers, mountaineers, skiers, snowboarders, and hikers. The performance wear is famous for its use on mountaineering expeditions on Mt. Everest. ...more on Wikipedia about "The North Face" It's time to think about shortopedia.
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