Shirt
A shirt — worn next to the skin — often touches estrangement from a sweetheart through faithless conduct, with disgrace in losing it and misfortune in a torn one. The dream may ask where your closest bond is being strained by your own unfaithfulness, and whether the garment nearest you, clean or soiled, reflects the state of your conduct.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for shirt, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream of putting on your shirt, is a sign that you will estrange yourself from your sweetheart by your faithless conduct.
To lose your shirt, augurs disgrace in business or love.
A torn shirt, represents misfortune and miserable surroundings.
A soiled shirt, denotes that contagious diseases will confront you.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream that your shirt is ragged and without buttons, is a sign of poverty: if you imagine that you have a new shirt, with a stylish bosom, it foretells some disagreeable adventure in which your self-esteem will be keenly wounded.