<p>A wear for the upper half of a human body enabling an easy arm raising operation while reducing the activity of muscles by stopping the unnecessary restraint of the muscles. The wear for the upper half of the body is characterized in that a low stretching part having a stretching rate in a rear surface lateral direction smaller than that in at least an area near a neck portion on the rear surface is formed in a prescribed area (25) set on the wear starting at one end side to the other end side in the rear surface lateral direction while at least including areas (27) where the angulus inferior (4) of right and left scapulas (1) are displaced when the arm raising operation is performed.</p>
