The less-common styles below were all once common, but have waned in popularity. It is considered a more casual style and, outside the United States, men typically do not wear shirts with this style of collar with a business suit. Introduced by Brooks Brothers in 1896, they were patterned after the shirts of polo players and were used exclusively on sports shirts until the 1950s in America. Button-down collars, or 'sport collars' have points fastened down by buttons on the front of the shirt.

Point, straight, or small collars are narrow, with 2 + 1⁄ 2 to 4 inches (64 to 102 mm) between the points of the collar.

This city style is more formal, though it is common in Europe, and predominant in the UK.

Spread collars measure from around 3 + 1⁄ 2 to 8 + 1⁄ 2 inches (89 to 216 mm) between the collar points, and the wider collars are often referred to as cutaway or Windsor collars after the Duke of Windsor.

Those discussed here are all attached collars, not styles specific to detachable collars. There are various styles of collar, which is the primary indicator of the formality of a shirt. Spread collars measure from around 3 + 1⁄ 2 to 8 + 1⁄ 2 inches (89 to 216 mm) between the collar points. Components Ī shirt has several components: A one-piece back, which is usually pleated, gathered, or eased into a section of fabric in the upper part of the back behind the neck and over the shoulders known as the yoke (either one-piece or seamed vertically in the middle) one-piece sleeves with plackets at the wrist, or else short-sleeved (cut off above the elbow), though this is not traditional a band of fabric around each wrist known as a cuff the collar, a strip around the neck, which is normally a turndown collar, with the strip folded down away from the neck, leaving two points at the front, the width of which is known as the spread and finally two front panels which overlap slightly down the middle on the placket to fasten with buttons (or rarely shirt studs). However, in the mid-1800s, they also became an item of women's clothing and are worn by both sexes today.

Traditionally dress shirts were worn by men and boys, whereas women and girls often wore blouses, sometimes known as chemises.

The shirt was worn under the Justaucorps in the 18th century

Mens red button up dress shirt