What is "shirtwaists"

Usage examples of "shirtwaists".

It was a proletarian crowd, women in cheap cotton shirtwaists, men in shirts without collars and wearing flat cloth caps on their heads, not bourgeois homburgs and fedoras or capitalist stovepipes.

For now, heavy silk blouses and shirtwaists, unlike the very plain things that she'd been dressed in so far, were going to be made exactly to her measure and ornamented lavishly with lace, ribbon, and flounces.

There was literally nothing lacking, from the most delicate underthings to fashionable corsetry to gowns, skirts, and shirtwaists of a style and fabric that shouted "Imported!