Oh goody - I get to make a shirt for a teenage boy - a fully adult-sized teenage boy with really limited and specific tastes in clothes. He has a shirt, acquired from a vendor at an SCA event, that he loves and that looks really great on him. His shirt is not really period for SCA but he likes it, so what's a mom to do? I'm hoping to make him something that he'll like as well as that one, without the event price-tag and maybe a little bit more period.
Butterick 4486 looks a LOT like his shirt, and would be even closer if I just add a simple collar - no problem. But I'm pretty sure it's not period - not close for anything any earlier than maybe Victorian? Likewise, Simplicity 3758 is probably only somewhat close to the 1800s and not pre-1600. So what would be a good shirt pattern, commercial or drafted by me, for a shirt that will appeal to a teenager in the way that the commercial patterns mentioned above would, but would still be a little bit closer to pre-1600? He has a lovely Bocksten-style tunic which, so far, he has shown no interest in wearing. I would have loved to outfitted him in Viking, but he seems to prefer something in a later period. I am planning on making him a lovely chocolate brown, cotton velveteen doublet, but that's not at the top of the costume to-do list right now. Ok, so I'm only asking the impossible - that's life with teens! Laurie T. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
