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A garment made from light material worn on the upper part of the body next to the skin

The evidence for shirts often doubles up with that for Tunics due to the difficulty of determining the items original use.

Shirt material

made from linen

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Literature

Archaeology

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made from wool

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Shirt Neck Styles

Bias keyhole or oval neck

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Archaeology

  • Thorsbjerg

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Square neck

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Archaeology

  • Virborg shirt

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Different colour facing

None as far as we are aware.


Shirt Skirt Styles

Skirt gores

Side split

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Front split

Art

  • Bayeux Tapestry - deep cut to the groin
  • Tiberius - small shallow cut


Shirt colours

Natural or bleached

Dyed a light colour

As shirts would have been regularly washed it is unlikely that they would have retained any dying for long.

Dyed a strong colour

Decoration

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Worn tucked into trousers [V]

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  • Oseberg wagon.
  • Middleton Warrior

[OWEN-CROCKER 2004]:p.188

Visible under tunic

Art
Only one Anglo-Saxon manuscript image seems to show a shirt longer that the tunic. King Aethelstan, Cambs, Corpus Christi MS.183 f.iv, dated to 934AD

See Also

Tunics

References

Ewing, Thor (2007) Viking Clothing. Tempus. [EWING 2007] ^ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 *
Owen-Crocker, Gale R. (2004) Dress in Anglo-Saxon England. 2nd ed. The Boydell Press. [OWEN-CROCKER 2004] ^ 1 2 *