Gentlemen, show us what you've made!

[The Wiser Hatter]

Nice Bella.

 

[Hepville]

Finished yesterday... needs to be ironed properly:
US Army style shirt with darted back. Brown buttons come from a similar 1940s shirt in unwearable condition.

 

[Mario]

Nice one Bela. But you better make sure to keep those pocket flaps buttoned down in case a storm comes up or you're likely to get blown away...

 

[Hepville]

Big chest, big flaps

 

[Mario]

I see.

 

[Bugsy]

Finished yesterday... needs to be ironed properly:
US Army style shirt with darted back. Brown buttons come from a similar 1940s shirt in unwearable condition.

COLOR="#FF0000"]Nicely done!![/COLOR]

 

[herringbonekid]

Hepville, that looks like a very well made shirt. what's the fabric ?

 

[Hepville]

Thank you guys!

The fabric is a medium weight cotton gabardine.
Next shirt will be with different collar shape and chin strap.

 

[splintercellsz]

Amazing work Hepville!

Personally, I'd love to get into making items... but sadly, I am not too keen with making things!

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

Bella, looks like your apprenticeship is going well.

 

[Nick D]

Very nice work, Hepville. I especially like the jacket.

What pattern company and number are the tie and bow tie?
I have a similar vintage pattern (Simplicity 4816) but didn´t had the time to yet to make a tie.

It's McCall 907, from 1941. It's a good pattern, though the bowtie is given as straight-grain and I've been making them on the bias.

 

[Nick D]

Recently completed formal daywear trousers. It took a long time to find fabric (I could afford) that was more grey than black. Made using the EvaDress 1940s trouser pattern, but I took off the cuffs, made the back a cut-on waist and made it a low fishtail. The pocket mouths are pick-stitched, as is the fly, so it's almost invisible. The linings are hand-sewn.

 

[Hepville]

Thank you guys!
Well apprenticeship is going well... but I´ve really made a lot of shirts before... at least about the last 7 I´ve made meet my recent requirements

It´s the hand sewing that give me some hard times... and there are a lot of hand stitches in mens tailoring.
A few years back I broke my right elbow... I'm a righty. My arm movement is a bit limited till that and that makes some work movements not that easy for me... but it works.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Does anyone know how many yards or cloth are needed to make a dress shirt?

 

[Hepville]

Bruce: That depends on things like shirt size, fabric width, matching pattern (if cloth is patterned).
Looking at your picture you need a bigger size I guess.

Following is from a 40s shirt pattern I have:

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Thanx for posting that, Hepville. My shirt size is 20 x 35but I like my shirts with long tails. I was going to have two whit barrel cuff shirts made & a Frence cuff shirt with contrasting collar & cuffs as well.

Thanx!!!
Charlie

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Some quick math suggests I shpuld get 4 1/2 yards for each of the with shirts & then I can preshrink them.

Thanx!!!
Charlie

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Where do you gents recommend I source some medium weight suiting wool? The only place I can find online is 14 ounces & is $60 a yard.

Thanx!!!
Charlie

 

[Gin&Tonics]

A couple of watch chains I made today:

A single Albert with fob drop:

I'm not especially happy with the chain for this one; I will try to find something better.

A double Albert with fob drop:

The fob may be of interest to some of you Loungers; it was a medal my grandfather won for playing lacrosse in a Vancouver tournament in 1925:

It may or may not have originally been intended as a watch fob. I understand that it was actually fairly common to give out watch fobs as commemorative tokens for such events. In any case, I felt it looked rather well as one, and in fact I designed this chain to complement the fob. I'm fairly pleased with how this one came out, although I would like to get a larger t-bar for it if I can find one.

With watch and coin stash thingy:

The little pocket watch looking jobby on the other end of the chain actually hinges open like a hunter case and has a little spring loaded coin dispenser! The biggest coin it can hold is perhaps a nickel, so it obviously hails from the days when pennies, nickels and dimes could actually buy you something! It has makers marks on each piece, so I believe it is actually sterling silver (in dire need of polishing) It happens to contain a sixpence piece from 1963, so I suppose I am sixpence, none the richer!

 

[Shangas]

Those little coin-carriers were popularly called sovereign-cases, Gin, since they were supposed to hold sovereign-coins. You could buy double-cases, that would hold sovereigns and half-sovereigns, as well.