Beautiful! I love all the extra strengthening in these shirts. That really should come back. How see-through is that linen? It catches the light so beautifully in the first pic.
Interesting you did pleats instead of gathers at the shoulder and cuff. I wonder if that made the seams harder to fell, since, more layers. Some of the videos I linked before show the linking of neck ruffles, if you want.
I've been thinking about the detachable wrist ruffles. 18th C. ones were apparently frequently basted or tacked on and removed for washing (as were the neck ruffles). That seems impractical for modern purposes. But earlier were either connected with eyelets and ribbon (like sleeves), or with small buttons, and buttons were definitely used in the 19the c, so it's fair to assume 18th c also had them as an option. You could of course make the ornate cuffs entirely separate, just tied around with ribbon, like Tudor ruffs (or, going the modern way, with elastic).
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How see-through is that linen? It catches the light so beautifully in the first pic.
Interesting you did pleats instead of gathers at the shoulder and cuff. I wonder if that made the seams harder to fell, since, more layers.
Some of the videos I linked before show the linking of neck ruffles, if you want.
I've been thinking about the detachable wrist ruffles. 18th C. ones were apparently frequently basted or tacked on and removed for washing (as were the neck ruffles). That seems impractical for modern purposes. But earlier were either connected with eyelets and ribbon (like sleeves), or with small buttons, and buttons were definitely used in the 19the c, so it's fair to assume 18th c also had them as an option. You could of course make the ornate cuffs entirely separate, just tied around with ribbon, like Tudor ruffs (or, going the modern way, with elastic).