dress shirt

See also: dress-shirt

English

A man wearing a dress shirt (US usage).

A man wearing a dress shirt (UK usage).

Alternative forms

• dress-shirt

Noun

dress shirt (plural dress shirts)

1. (US) A collared shirt with buttons worn as part of a formal, business or business casual outfit.

   Synonyms: button-down, button-up, (Philippines) polo, work shirt

   Hyponym: (tailored for women's use) blouse

2. (UK) A formal, eveningwear shirt with buttons, often worn as part of a black tie or white tie dress code.

   Synonyms: evening shirt, tuxedo shirt

   Meronyms: bib, double cuff, placket, pleat, ruffle, wing collar

   • 2024 July 30, “The Complete Guide To Men’s Dress Shirts”, in FashionBeans‎^[1]:

     First off, you certainly wouldn’t want to rock up to work sporting a dress shirt. Not unless you’re the Queen’s butler or one of those gents who holds the doors open at posh department stores. No, a dress shirt is to be worn exclusively as part of a black-tie outfit, most commonly a tuxedo.

Derived terms

• dress-shirted

Translations

collared shirt

• Aragonese: camisa f
• Armenian: վերնաշապիկ (hy) (vernašapik)
• Asturian: camisa f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 襯衫／衬衫 (zh) (chènshān)

• Dutch: overhemd (nl) n
• Esperanto: ĉemizo (eo)
• Finnish: pukupaita (fi), kauluspaita (fi)
• French: chemise (fr) f
• German: Hemd (de) n
• Indonesian: kemeja (id)
• Japanese: ワイシャツ (ja) (waishatsu)
• Korean: 와이셔츠 (ko) (waisyeocheu)
• Polish: koszula frakowa f
• Portuguese: camisa social (pt) f
• Russian: руба́шка (ru) f (rubáška)
• Swedish: skjorta (sv) c
• Venetan: camixa (vec) f
• Vietnamese: sơ mi (vi)

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