Army Ike Jacket
Clothing Terminology
Clothing terminology comprises the names of individual garments and classes of garments, as well as the specialized vocabularies of the trades that have designed, manufactured, marketed and sold clothing over hundreds of years.
Clothing terminology ranges from the arcane (watchet, a pale blue color name from the sixteenth century) to the everyday (t-shirt), and changes over time in response to fashion which in turn reflects social, artistic, and political trends.
Despite the constant introduction of new terms by fashion designers, clothing manufacturers and marketers, the names for several basic garment classes in English are very stable over time. Gown, shirt/skirt, frock, and coat are all attested back to the early medieval period.
Gown (from medieval Latin gunna) was a basic clothing term for hundreds of years, referring to a garment that hangs from the shoulders. In medieval and renaissance England gown referred to a loose outer garment worn by both men and women, sometimes short, more often ankle length, with sleeves. By the eighteenth century gown had become a standard category term for a woman’s dress, a meaning it retained until the mid-twentieth century. Only in the last few decades has gown lost this general meaning in favor of dress. Today the term gown is rare except in specialized cases: academic dress or cap and gown, evening gown, nightgown, hospital gown, and so on (see Gown).
Shirt and skirt are originally the same word, the former being the southern and the latter the northern pronunciation in early Middle English. Like gown, shirt is becoming a specialized term in Britain, though it retains its general meaning in the U.S. (see Shirt).
Coat remains a term for an overgarment, its essential meaning for the last thousand years (see Coat).
Names for new styles or fashions in clothing are frequently the deliberate inventions of fashion designers or clothing manufacturers; these include Chanel’s Little Black Dress (a term which has survived) and Lanvin’s robe de style (which has not). Other terms are of more obscure origin.
Clothing styles are frequently named after people ??often with a military connection:
The Garibaldi jacket and Garibaldi shirt were bright red woolen garments for women with black embroidery or braid and military details popular in the 1860s; they are named after the Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi who visited England in 1863.
The Eisenhower jacket or “Ike” jacket is a waist-length, military jacket of World War II origins. Called the “Jacket, Field, Wool, M-1944″, it was commissioned by then General Dwight Eisenhower as a new field jacket for the US Forces in Northern Europe. The jacket was based on the British Army ‘Battle Dress’ jacket of the same era.
The cardigan is a knitted jacket or button-front sweater created to keep British soldiers warm in Russian winters. It is named for James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, who led the Charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean War (1854).
The Mao jacket is a very plain (often grey), high-collared, shirtlike jacket customarily worn by Mao Zedong and the people of China during his regime. Its drab design and uniformity was a reaction to pre-Revolution class distinctions of clothes, with elites dressing in elaborate silks, while poor laborers wore very rough clothes.
The Nehru jacket is a uniform jacket without lapels or collars, popularized by Jawaharial Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India.
Another fertile source for clothing terms is place names, which usually reflect the origin (or supposed origin) of a fashion. Modern terms such as Bermuda shorts, Hawaiian shirts, and Fair Isle sweaters are the latest in a long line that stretches back to holland (linen), damask (“from Damascus”), polonaise (“in the fashion of Polish women”), jersey (originally Jersey frock), Balaclava, mantua, and denim (“serge de after the city).
Costume historians, with a “rearward-looking” view, require names for clothing styles that were not used (or needed) when the styles were actually worn. For example, the Van Dyke collar is so-called from its appearances in seventeenth century portraits by Anthony Van Dyck, and the Watteau pleats of the robe are called after their appearance in the portraits of Antoine Watteau.
Similarly, terms may be applied ahistorically to entire categories of garments, so that corset is applied to garments that were called stays or a pair of bodies until the introduction of the word corset in the late eighteenth century. And dress is now applied to any woman’s garment consisting of a bodice and skirt, although for most of its history dress simply meant clothing, or a complete outfit of clothing with its appropriate accessories.
A notable trend at the turn of the twenty-first century is “cute” short forms: camisole becomes cami, hooded sweaters or sweatshirts become hoodies, and as of 2005, short or “shrunken” cardigans are cardies.
The much-older term shimmy for “slip” is most likely a false singular from chemise.
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my militaria collection
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VINTAGE 1944 WW2 U.S. ARMY MILITARY UNIFORM IKE JACKET RIBBON BAR,PINS,MEDALS $49.99 |
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WWII OD Ike Jacket 38R Army Air Corps $129.99 |
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WW2 Period US Army Ike Uniform Jacket 7th Army Bevo patch German made $25.00 |
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US Military Korean War Army Ike Jacket, size 40 Long $29.99 |
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AAF WW2 Jacket Field Ike 36 Pins patch Army Air Force $100.00 |
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WWII IKE jacket for US Army Soldier WWII $49.50 |
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Original WWII US ARMY– IKE JACKET–CHINA PATCHES–VGC $29.99 |
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U.S ARMY IKE UNIFORM WOOL JACKET WITH BRASS COLLAR INSIGNIA. $9.99 |
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Vtg WW2 WWII 1944 Mens US ARMY WOOL IKE JACKET 38 R $140.00 |
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VINTAGE WWII CDN ARMY MILITARY WOOL IKE JACKET SMALL $65.00 |
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1951 Korean War era US Army Ike Jacket-Enlisted Man $22.50 |
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US Army WW2 Ike Jacket Tech Corporal Mediterranean Allied Air Force $9.99 |
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WW II ARMY AIR CORP FAR EAST AIR FORCE IKE JACKET W/PANTS & RIBBONS Size 36S $49.95 |
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WWII Army Ike Jacket, 4th Air Force Radio cuff patch, tailor made cut-down 38 XL $19.99 |
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WW2 US ARMY IKE JACKET STAFF SERGEANT VERMONT SOLDIER CARRY BACK SIZE 36 LONG $67.77 |
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WW2 100th Division IDd US Army Ike Jacket uniform Grouping – 398th Inf $40.99 |
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3 Pc 1944 WWII US Army Uniform IKE Jacket WW2 102 Infantry 778 Tank ETO 3 Star $55.00 |
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US ARMY WW2 IKE JACKET CPL 38 REGULAR TUNIC COAT SERVICE UNIFORM $47.00 |
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WWII USAAF AAF Army Air Force Sergeant Eisenhower Ike Jacket Coat Uniform $48.00 |
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WWII Army Air Corps 9th Aviation Engineers Ike Jacket – British Made patch? $29.99 |
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WWII US Army Air Corps Uniform IKE Jacket rare Gold/Silver Bullion 5th AF Patch $149.99 |
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Original Rare WWII WW2 US.ARMY M-44 Eisenhower Ike Jacket Patch+ Pin+Ribbon #J25 $39.99 |
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Original Rare WWII WW2 US.ARMY M-44 Eisenhower Ike Jacket Patch+ Pin #J27 $39.99 |
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Vtg *Dated 1945* US ARMY Ike Jacket 40 L wool Gabardine WWII military 4/16/45 $19.99 |
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WWII US Ike Jacket – Private 7th Army $10.00 |
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WWII US Ike Jacket – Private 7th Army $10.00 |
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WW2 WOOL ARMY IKE JACKET $35.00 |
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WWII Eisenhower IKE US Army (40R) Staff Sergeant E6 Uniform Jacket Patches $29.99 |
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WWII Eisenhower IKE US Army (39R) Sergeant First Class Uniform Jacket Patches $29.99 |
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U.S. WW2 Ike Jacket w/ 5th Army & 7th Army Patches (38 Short) $22.50 |
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WW2 US ARMY WOOL UNIFORM IKE FIELD JACKET & PANTS, SIZE 40 R, TECH SGT. $19.99 |
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vtg 1945 US ARMY WOOL EISENHOWER IKE JACKET, MODIFIED w/ TALON ZIPPER, 42 XS $40.00 |
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2 ww 2 ike jackets + pants and blue jacket 4 pieces ww2 army $19.95 |
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WWII US Army Captains Uniform,Ike Jacket,Pants 8th Army,19th Infantry Regiment $49.99 |
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US ARMY ISSUE IKE FIELD JACKET(Wool), size 38Reg 1950 $22.99 |
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Vintage Mens Ike Eisenhower Jacket Army WW2 Size 36R $149.00 |
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WW2 US Army Ike jacket, Trousers, Belt…. 8th Army Bullion Patch on Felt $9.99 |
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U.S. Army Enlisted Eisenhower Ike Jacket $19.99 |
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US Military Korean War Army Ike Jackets (two) and Pants Mod 1952 size 38 short $29.99 |