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

[sanguinity]

Clearly Keith should have stripped down to skin so he could rip his shirt into bandages. :-D

Ewen: That's really not necessary...
Keith: [clothes flying across the room] No, you're bleeding, I gotta!

[luzula]

Actually I have personally stripped down to skin so that I could use my shirt to bandage someone's wound! : D

There was no sexual tension involved, though, at least not on my end and I hope not on his--the guy was my boss at an Arctic field research station who had fallen and hit his head on a rock while we were out on the slope of a mountain, and he was bleeding copiously. A helicopter eventually came to get him to the hospital and he was okay.

[sanguinity]

Yikes! Yes, that is not at all sexy, nor would one want it to be. I'm glad he was okay.

Happily every mountain rescue I've participated in (as if there were so many!), everybody was capable of walking out at the end.

[luzula]

I imagine many things that are fannish tropes are actually, uh, quite different from the fic version if you actually live through them!

[sanguinity]

Huddling for warmth. Is being cold ever sexy? I have my doubts.