Wallace shirt

A polo-neck men’s shirt, in cotton or in wool, with a short central line of buttons. It was commonly used in the nineteenth century as an item of underwear, but it took its name from the Hollywood actor Wallace Beery, who wore it in the 1930s as an item of clothing in his films. In Italian, it is called a Serafino, from the name of the young Abruzzese shepherd, the protagonist of the film of that name by Pietro Germi (1968), played by Adriano Celentano.