Poplin
Cotton fabric in a plain weave with very densely set, fine threads. The surface is smooth and slightly shiny, and the fabric feels cool. Poplin is the usual fabric for business shirts worn tucked in and with a tie.
Related terms
- Poplin shirtShirt made of poplin: smooth, dense and fine, with a collar that carries a tie, such as the wide-spread cutaway collar.
- Oxford clothCotton fabric in a basket weave, usually with a colored warp and a white, somewhat thicker weft.
- Striped shirtShirt with lengthwise stripes, in the office usually fine Bengal stripes in light blue and white made of poplin.
- WorstedWool whose fibers are combed and aligned in parallel before spinning.
- FrescoWorsted in an open plain weave made of highly twisted yarns.
- HopsackWool fabric in a basket weave, in which two or more threads are interlaced together.