another twisted collar shirt

I made another unusual little shirt … this one is similar to the other, cotton one that I made just recently but does have some key differences.

I used a length of beautiful snowy white linen from the Linen Shack … very fine and lightly crisp, almost floaty, and it was just as lovely to work with as the dusky pink linen I used for another recently made shirt…  Honestly is there anything nicer to wear than a crisp and fresh linen shirt?  It’s one of my favourite things to have and wear and all my white linen shirts get worn to death.   I mean, a white top goes with absolutely everything so although one might feel like it’s a bit predictable it is also undoubtably indispensable.  Personally, I absolutely must have at least one white shirt in my wardrobe at any time and particularly a linen one for summer!

This one has many details that you’d expect for a classic button-up shirt with collar, collar stand, and cuffed sleeves; except it’s not classic at all because of the off-set nature of the collar.  I’m really enjoying exploring this idea for a new pattern and haven’t finished experimenting yet!

For this one, I used tortoiseshell coloured buttons which I think is a nice contrast to the white.  These were long ago harvested from off an old business shirt of Craig’s.  Galica commented on my previous post about considering just one pocket so I decided to give this a go.  I went for a double-topstitched arrow headed pocket and pocket flap with identical profile.  This blouse has topstitched seams throughout for a classic casual shirt look, which I really like.

I cut the neckline of this shirt quite a lot wider from the cotton sample I made recently, so it needed an obviously different collar and collar stand.  This also took me quite a bit of time to finesse… and I haven’t quite settled on which one I like better!  The hemline is longer on this one too, only reason being that I had a tad more of this fabric than I did of the cotton!  I do really like the gently curving hemline.  In my opinion it’s a really nice shape and I’m very pleased with it. 🙂

I’m wearing the shirt here with my blue Closet Core patterns Sasha trousers.  By the way, I must apologise for the funny colouring in these photos… I had to substantially adjust the colour, which must be the primary cardinal sin when blogging about and/or illustrating clothes!  However I took my beach photos here at about sunset and the natural light was a quite strong and definitely misleading pink/orange glow.  I just wanted my new, beautifully white shirt to actually look white!

The Linen Shack white linen can be found here

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