Progress report: 18th century men's shirt

[luzula]

Okay, here's what I've got so far. Floofy sleeves, like I wanted! : D

I kind of wonder if it's too loose? But then I look at this painting of Voltaire getting dressed, and decide that no, it's not.


It's not done: I still need to sew on the insides of the cuffs and collars, make buttonholes, make something to strengthen the end of the slit at the neck, etc. Should I have ruffles along the front or not? Cannot decide. Also, it goes almost to my knees and has long tails, as it should have.

...I have no sewing tag, I guess I'll just label this by fandom.

Comments

[ceruleancat]

*clapping*
Looks lovely. Successful sleeve gathers and floof.
You could probably rig internal drawstring at bottom or along the sides if you wanted to hitch it up a bit for varying functionality.
Have you decided how to do detachable cuffs?

[luzula]

Thanks! : ) The description I went by doesn't have the actual cuffs detachable, is that a thing? I do have little hooks that I thought I'd use to attach lace ruffles to the cuffs. No idea how they did that in the past, though.