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This article is about the garment. For other uses, see Jacket (disambiguation).
A jacket is a type of clothing that covers the upper body, usually extending below the waist. Jackets typically have sleeves, and are open down the front, closing by means of buttons, zippers, hook-and-loop fasteners, toggles, a belt, or a combination of some of these. Other possible features include collars, shoulder straps and hoods.
Jackets are one of the oldest forms of clothing, as evidenced by the hallstatt culture glacial mummy known as รtzi. He was wearing a goatskin jacket that was sewn together from several pieces, with a fur collar and leather patches on the shoulders and elbows. Jackets can be worn for protection from the weather, as a fashion item, or as a uniform.
A man wearing a sports jacket.
British jacket, ca. 1600-1625, linen, silk, wool. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The word jacket, which means a short garment for the upper body, has its origin in the French language. The French word jaquette, which has the same meaning as jacket, is derived from a smaller word, jaquet. Jaquet was a Middle French word that was used in the 14th and 15th centuries to describe a short coat with sleeves, often worn by men as a protective or defensive layer over a shirt or tunic. Jaquet was also a diminutive form of jaque, another Middle French word that referred to a kind of tunic worn by peasants. The name Jaques was a common name for a peasant in France, and it may have influenced the word jaquet. Alternatively, jaquet may have been related to jaque de mailles, a term for a short, tight-fitting coat of mail, which was made of metal rings or plates. Jaque de mailles came from the Spanish word jaco, which in turn came from the Arabic word shakk. Shakk meant breastplate, and it was borrowed from the Aramean/Assyrian and Hebrew word shaแธณแธณ, which meant sackcloth or coarse cloth. Shaแธณแธณ also gave rise to the English word sack, which means a large bag.
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