| Vests Article | A vest is a type of collarless sleeveless upper-body garment. There are a variety of similar garments that may be referred to as vests, but also under other names in different regions. Vests usually fall into two broad categories: Sleeveless upper-body garments, usually worn as undergarments, known as vests, undershirts or singlets. Sleeveless jackets or coats, known as vests in the US and as waistcoats in the UK. The term vest derives from French veste, Italian vesta, veste "robe, gown," and Latin vestis, from vestire "to clothe". The sleeveless garment worn by men beneath the coat may have been introduced by King Charles II of England; a diary entry from October 8, 1666, written by Samuel Pepys states, "The King hath yesterday, in Council, declared his resolution of setting a fashion for clothes .... It will be a vest, I know not well how; but it is to teach the nobility thrift." |
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