Flannel Shirts History [Fashion]

Flannel Shirts [Fashion]

Good afternoon.

Right now, I’d like to discuss some of the things that you (guys) already familiar and it called a flannel shirt.

The word “Flannel” comes with many pronounce. Europeans called it “flannelette”. The French coined it “Flanelle”. And the Germans? They removed that extra “e” but kept the extra l for “Flannell.

 

Flannel Shirts

The definition of the flannel shirt, according to the Wikipedia :

"Flannel shirt" is often mistakenly used to refer to any shirt with a plaid or tartan pattern, rather than a shirt constructed of Flannel fabric and as the Flannel it’s self, is a soft woven fabric, of various fineness. Flannel was originally made from carded wool or worsted yarn, but is now often made from either wool, cotton, or synthetic fibre.

Flannel Fabrics

The Conclusion history of the flannel shirt, according to flanneljack.com  :

We now know that flannel shirt has been going through many phases.

1) Originally made to be wear in a cold weather and  very cheap, but  became popular in America with the invention of union suit, which is a one-piece long john and gradually it became a woman and man’s underwear at the year of 1890.

One-piece long john

2) Time goes by, and flannel shirts became a standard men’s underwear in a cold weather and for working men (blue collar men). When the first world war broke in 1914, flannel shirts was used as uniforms for soldiers and bandage for medics.

Flannel shirts as soldiers uniforms

3) In 1950, flannel shirts became an important part of American culture. It was Paul Bunyan who became a role model who is always wearing a red plaid flannel shirts. Many man interpreted it as a symbol of equal, so they always wearing a same flannel uniform in their groups. Flannel shirts for man at that time has many function and mean : it was comfortable in most climates, bold, distinctive, male independence and sense of the right stuff for men.

Paul Bunyan with his red plaid flannel shirts

4)   Final phases, which turn a flannel shirts into a uniform of masculinity in modern world. It was Kurt Cobain, the legendary Nirvana singer who made a whole generation of men to adopt the flannel shirts.

Kurt Cobain in his flannel shirts