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Kartik Aaryan, an
Indian actor, modelling with a sleeveless shirt.
Sleeveless shirt in a clothes shop A
sleeveless shirt is a
shirt that is manufactured without
sleeves or with sleeves that have been cut off. Depending on the style, they can be worn as
undershirts, by
athletes in
sports such as
track and field and
triathlon, or as
casual wear by both men and women.
Tank top
Sayali Sanjeev wearing a sleeveless top.
A man wearing an A-shirtIn the United States and Canada, any casual sleeveless shirt can be called
tank top[1] or
tank shirt,
[2] with several specific varieties. It is named after
tank suits, one-piece bathing suits of the 1920s worn in tanks or swimming pools.
[3] The upper garment is worn commonly by both men and women. The build of a tank top is simple: the neck and armholes are often reinforced for durability. They often have large armholes and neck holes, which may reach down as far as the bottom of the chest; particularly low armholes are referred to as "dropped armholes." Women's tank tops have smaller holes, to conceal their breasts. They are also sometimes made long to make tucking into pants easier. In almost all cases, they are buttonless, collarless, and pocketless.
A sleeveless T-shirt, also called a
muscle shirt, is the same design as a
T-shirt, but without sleeves.
[4] Some sleeveless T-shirts, which possess smaller, narrower arm holes, are traditionally worn by both women and men. They are often worn during athletic activities or as casual wear during warmer weather. They are colloquially known as
shooter shirts in the southern United States. They were quite popular in the 1980s and were commonly associated with
surfers and
bodybuilders (hence the name "muscle" shirt) and often bore the names and logos of gyms.
[citation needed] Such shirts without logos are now more commonly worn as casual wear.
The tank top designed for a tight fit and often made of
ribbed cotton is also colloquially called an
A-shirt, or, more offensively,
wifebeater,
beater,
guinea tee or
dago tee (
guinea and
dago being American
ethnic slurs for people of
Italian ethnicity).
The term wife-beater reportedly became synonymous for an undershirt after a 1947 criminal case where a Detroit man was arrested for beating his wife to death, and newspapers printed a photo of the "
wife beater" wearing a stained undershirt.
[5][6][7] Another claim was spread by Paul Davidson, a filmmaker, in a blog post where he claimed that the term had evolved from a medieval
chain mail undergarment called a "waif-beater", and this was picked up as fact by other outlets.
[8] Davidson openly admitted in 2018 that the "waif-beater" story was a hoax, created to trick people who believed unquestioningly anything they read on the Internet.
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