Different Components of a Basic Shirt

Basic Shirt
A shirt is a cloth garment for the upper body. There are various types of shirt for men and women. Basic shirt is one of them. There’s nothing more classic than a woven collared shirt. This shirt has a formal collar, a full-length opening at the front from the collar to the hem and sleeves with cuffs. In this article, I will discuss on various parts of basic shirt.

Different Components of a Basic Shirt

Fig: Components of a Basic Shirt

Machines required for making a shirt 

• Plain (lock stitch) sewing machine
• Over lock/edge neatening sewing machine
• Flat lock machine
• Button holing machine
• Button attaching machine
• Feed of the arm m/c

Accessories used for making a shirt 

• Fusible interlining
• Sewing thread (40/2 or 40/3 or 50/3): Matching color
• Label: Main label, size label, care label
• Button: Plastic or wooden or horn
• Motif

Trimmings used for making a shirt 

• Neck board
• Back board
• Collar insert: Usually plastic
• Hang tang
• Tag ping
• Price tick
• Tissue paper
• Poly bag
• Butter flies, etc.

Individual parts of basic shirt:

Collar

Parts of collar

Pocket styles

Pocket styles 

Cuff styles and types

Cuff styles

Sleeve styles

Sleeve styles

Yoke styles

Yoke styles 

• In the first case, yoke and body back part are of one piece of cloth.
• In two pieces and single yoke, a single yoke is attached with the body back part.
• When two pieces of yoke are attached with the body back part then it is put in the third category, i.e. two pieces and double yoke.

Bottom styles

Bottom styles