I used to wear undershirts during periods of cold weather; its been years since I last needed one.
Americans call a “jumper” a sweater, right?
Notice how damn diplomatic I am? If I’d been around in 1775…but I digress
Yeah, I find this one a weird one. I’m used to most things that Americans say differently, due to TV and movies, but for some reason I have never noticed anyone refer to a jumper on US shows. It’s a type of dress, right? Has the name fallen out of fashion?
In Winter.
With my work uniforms. The company shirts come in two sizes: the ones with sleeves that are way too short, and the ones where the body fits me like a circus tent. With an undershirt, the latter are not so bad.
My husband wears dress shirts to work and it’s unthinkable that he would not wear a t-shirt underneath. Those shirts are on the expensive side and last a lot longer that way. In winter he wears long sleeved cotton henley t-shirts underneath. … I wear cotton tank tops or t-shirts in various colors every day, with a shirt or blouse, often as a jacket. In winter, long sleeved t-shirts under sweaters or sweatshirts. It seems kind of tacky to me for a man not to wear a t-shirt, it’s like not wearing socks with leather shoes.
All men wore undershirts until Clark Gable, in “It Happened One Night” 1934 was revealed to be without one. It put the industry into a tailspin. I only wear one if I expect to be cold, or if a white/light shirt has too much me showing thru. Thus I’m wearing one when its warm, and not when its cool.
You know that dress that Alice in Wonderland wears? That’s a jumper. According to Wikipedia it’s called a pinafore dress where you are. I think it’s mostly seen as a childish dress (or at least if an adult wore one it wouldn’t be called a jumper.)
I don’t own any. Don’t wear them under dress shirts or any other time.
I voted Sometimes, let me explain. I wear dress shirts or polo shirts most days, and with those I always have an undershirt. On the rare occasions that I am wearing a t-shirt, I lose the undershirt (or use the undershirt as a t-shirt). That basically translates to working around the house or in the yard.
Im a gal, I always wore tank tops or undershirts under my nursing scrubs but now that I am in an office I don’t do that as much. On the other hand I do favour the open blouse with a shell look for work. which is essentially the same thing, but the shell is made of a nicer fabric. Oh and I am wearing a blue “outside tank top” today under a sweater because it is a loose crochet and need something underneath. So, I guess I do wear them fairly often, mainly for clevage and coverage reasons.
My Dad wears a thin white t-shirt under everything except tshirts. (which he has only started wearing maybe in the last 10 years) He calls them his “polo shirts”, but they are just a basic white T-shirt style undershirt. He wears them under short or long sleeved cotton/poly/ dress shirts or sport shirts. He wears them under his golf shirts which he calls “prep shirts”(these he started wearing in the 80’s with the IZOD craze) and he has worn the white undershirt under tshirts with a button or placket but no collar. Basically if it has a button or snap or zipper it has a thin white shirt that he calls “polo” shirt under them. Including his pajamas.
My mother irons these. And his pajamas…
Sunday was their 46th wedding anniversary.
Those two facts have never ever been reconciled in my brain.
Cheers, interesting.
I find undershirts to be clingy and uncomfortable, but I like the idea of them under t-shirts.
So I recently started wondering what kind of long sleeved shirts Sheldon on the big bang theory wears. I saw him take his t-shirt off in one episode and it looked like some sort of a baseball jersey underneath (white body with colored arms), with maybe a wide-mouthed neck. it looked like it may not be so bad wearing multiple shirts if the bottom layer was a little looser around the neck.
Any ideas (or links) about what style of t-shirts these are, and where to pick up a dozen or so cheaply?
In cold weather.
If he’d been a girl I’d tell you he’s wearing what’s referred to as a “layering tee” but I don’t know what they call the men’s equivilent.
Under dress shirts, which I rarely wear. If I’m stylin’ and profilin’ I don’t want big pit stains showing.
Never. This is not 1962, and I am not Don Draper.
A long-sleeve, tight-fitting cotton “underwear” shirt under a sweater on a really cold day, okay – but mainly just to keep the itchy wool sweater away from my skin.
Always under a dress shirt. I rarely wear a tie, so I like the v-neck t-shirts. This is true even if I’m wearing a sweater over the dress shirt.
Usually under any kind of button-up, long-sleeved shirt (say, a flannel shirt in cooler weather).
Never under a polo shirt or anything like that.
Then there are shirts I wear under other shirts for warmth, like a long-sleeved henley (I think that’s the right name) under a flannel shirt in colder weather. But that’s probably not what is meant by this poll.
No. It’s hot as balls here and I am skinny enough not to worry about sweat stains.