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1950s Men's Shirt

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Sorry for the delayed posting, it has been a crazy busy couple of weeks. The weekend before the Costume Parade I was finishing up a green men's short sleeve, button down collared shirt. I am in love with this avocado green and it looked really great on the actor. 

 I followed the directions for the pattern but I thought it was a very odd way of sewing a men's shirt, especially how they had you sew the collar. It turned out okay, it was actually about 4" too big for my actor. The sleeves are kind of weird but once I took it in and hand stitched the sleeve hem it didn't look as odd.

 Stay tuned for actual show images to see the shirt in action!


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