The phrase "upper garment" is correct and can be used in written English.
It typically refers to a shirt, coat, or other piece of clothing that covers the upper body. For example, "He wore his best upper garment to the party."
Doublet, chief upper garment worn by men from the 15th to the 17th century.
In addition to the usual Levitical garments (those of the priestly class), the high priest, while officiating, wore the meʿil (mantle), the ephod (an upper garment), a breastplate, and a headdress.
For all Muslims of whatever sect the standard graveclothes are the threefold linen shroud, or kafan: the izār, or lower garment; the ridāʾ, or upper garment; and the lifāfah, or overall shroud.
After a ritual bath, the boy is dressed as an ascetic and brought before his guru (personal spiritual guide), who invests him with a deerskin to use as an upper garment, a staff, and the sacred thread (upavita, or yajnopavita).
As early as 1360 the magistrate of Brussels issued an ordinance according to which anyone caught playing a similar club-and-ball game was threatened with a fine of 20 shillings or confiscation of his upper garment ("Item. wie met coluen tsolt es om twintich scell' oft op hare ouerste cleet").
The report also notes the clothes worn by Rice — "light upper garment with dark sleeves and dark pants" — and that he appeared to be moving toward the police vehicle prior to the shooting.
Women often wear kurtis (knee length upper garments), salwar kameezes (knee length blouses) and sarees (a nine-yard-long thin cloth elaborately draped around the body), or the traditional mekhela sador.
It was demonstrated that reincorporation of trace particulates occurs from upper to lower parts of the same garment and also from upper garments to lower garments.
Anthropometric measurements were carried out after participants removed their shoes and upper garments.
After participants removed their shoes and upper garments, body weight was quantified with a UM-026 Tanita body composition analyzer (Tanita Corporation, Tokyo, Japan).
Participants removed their shoes and upper garments before bodyweight was measured, on a calibrated floor scale, with a maximum measuring capacity of 140-kg (1631 solar scale, Tanita Corp ,Tokyo, Japan).
