What is the difference between a t-shirt and a shirt?

The difference is as follows:

1. The shape and style of the two are different.

A T-shirt is a short sleeve with no collar and no buttons, while a shirt has a row of buttons in the front and has a collar.

2. The two fabrics are different.

T-shirts are usually made by knitting techniques, elastic and comfortable to wear. The shirt is made of woven fabric, which has little elasticity and is more compact to wear.

3. The seasons of the two are different.

T-shirts are mostly short-sleeved, suitable for hot summer days. The shirt has long sleeves, which can resist some cold. It is suitable for early spring and early autumn when worn as an outerwear, and suitable for late autumn and early winter when worn as an inner garment.

4. The suitable places for the two are different.

T-shirts are suitable for a relaxed and cozy home atmosphere, while shirts are suitable for formal office settings.

Extended information:

The large-scale popularity of T-shirts began in the 1970s. In 1973, "Women's Fashion Daily Wear Daily" claimed that T-shirts were the chief spokesperson of the counterculture that year. In 1975, it was reported that 48 million printed T-shirts flooded the clothing market in the United States, large and small, and maintained this momentum for many years to come.

The patterns and words on the T-shirts can be printed as long as you can think of them. Humorous advertisements, satirical pranks, self-deprecating ideals, desires to shock the world, and unrestrained moods are all vented here.

The shirt originally refers to the short-sleeved single clothes used to line the dress, that is, the shirt with the sleeves removed. In the Song Dynasty, there were jackets without sleeves. There were short and small shirts lined inside, and long shirts worn outside.

For example, in "Water Margin" "Lin Jiaotou Fengxue Mountain God", Lin Chong "shakes all the snow on his body, and takes off the upper cover (upper body coat) white shirt" is an example. In ancient times, women wore short jackets called "shanzi" or "half clothes". In the poem "Miscellaneous Memories", Yuan Zhen, a writer of the Tang Dynasty, had the line "Remembering the Shuangwen Shirt".

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, due to the spread of the European style to the east, people began to wear suits, wear shirts inside the suits as shirts, and tie a tie with an opening in the middle, usually with five buttons.