Grandfather shirt

Traditional shirts are white with coloured vertical stripes.

The 2010s decade has also seen the garment feature as a mainstream fashion item for men.

Sunday shirts are often paired with black trousers or Irish tweed pants and worn to mass, christenings, funerals, and weddings.

In popular culture, a variety of traditional Irish clothing was featured on the BBC series Ballykissangel and the Irish folk band, The Clancy Brothers were often photographed wearing traditional Irish clothes.

A similar collarless shirt or tunic, known as a kurta, is traditionally worn in the Islamic world and South Asia.