AboutSharon Vogel Expertise I can answer general sewing questions as well as tailoring, heirloom, menswear, children's wear, craft sewing, quilting and just about any fabric or notion. I can also help with some sewing machine repair and maintenance.
Experience I started sewing at the age of 3...thanks to my mom and grandmother, and I am now in my fifties. Home economics classes in junior high and high school helped me to finesse my skills.
Education/Credentials Palmer and Plesch tailoring class
Basically, self-taught...give me the instructions and I will figure it out and then make it better!
Awards and Honors A few blue ribbons at fairs along the way
For a long time now I've tried finding these vintage men's shirts. I believe the era is 1910-1920 or so. The Internet has yielded pictures, but not sewing patterns for vintage clothing...do you know where I might find patterns for these shirts?
The picture is attached...
The guy on the left and the guy on the right are both wearing the dress shirts in which I'm interested: shirts with those wide, funny collars that nearly cover the necktie knots. Are you aware of a place that deals in antique patterns?
Sorry I can't describe the garments in greater detail. That would be pretty difficult =)
Thanks so much,
Tom
Answer Dear Tom,
I found a website with some great patterns for you. www.patternsoftime.com Of course they have many more women's patterns but there are a few men's patterns.
I believe the collars on those shirts are detachable because in that time period, men tended to rewear a shirt before washing it but changed the collar and cuffs because they got dirtier. I even have a few collars in an old trunk that belonged to my grandpa who was born in the late 1800's.
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