I made another strange little shirt … this one is similar to the other, cotton one that I made just recently but does have some key differences.
I used a length of beautiful snowy white linen from the Linen Shack and it was just as lovely to work with as the dusky pink linen I used for another recently made shirt… Honestly is there anything nicer to wear than a crisp and fresh linen shirt? It’s one of my favourite things to have and wear and all my white linen shirts get worn to death. I mean, a white top goes with absolutely everything so although one might feel like it’s a bit predictable it is also undoubtably indispensable. Personally, I absolutely must have at least one white shirt in my wardrobe at any time and particularly a linen one for summer!
This one has many details that you’d expect for a classic button-up shirt with collar, collar stand, and cuffed sleeves; except it’s not classic at all because of the off-set nature of the collar. I’m really enjoying exploring this idea for a new pattern and haven’t finished experimenting yet!
For this one, I used tortoiseshell coloured buttons which I think is a nice contrast to the white. These were long ago harvested from off an old business shirt of Craig’s. Galica commented on my previous post about considering just one pocket so I decided to give this a go. I went for a double-topstitched arrow headed pocket and pocket flap with identical profile. This blouse has topstitched seams throughout for a classic casual shirt look, which I really like.
I cut the neckline of this shirt quite a lot wider from the cotton sample I made recently, so it needed an obviously different collar and collar stand. This also took me quite a bit of time to finesse… and I haven’t quite settled on which one I like better! The hemline is longer on this one too, only reason being that I had a tad more of this fabric than I did of the cotton! I do really like the gently curving hemline. In my opinion it’s a really nice shape and I’m very pleased with it.
I’m wearing the shirt here with my blue Closet Core patterns Sasha trousers. By the way, I must apologise for the funny colouring in these photos… I had to substantially adjust the colour, which must be the primary cardinal sin when blogging about and/or illustrating clothes! However I took my beach photos here at about sunset and the natural light was a quite strong and definitely misleading pink/orange glow. I just wanted my new, beautifully white shirt to actually look white!
The Linen Shack white linen can be found here
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