This section is from the book "Clothing For Women: Selection, Design, Construction", by Laura I. Baldt. Also available from Amazon: Clothing For Women: Selection, Design, Construction.
This pattern is for a strictly tailored garment built on the lines of a man's shirt, adapted to the measures and construction lines of the shirtwaist pattern. The shirt is much fuller throughout than the shirtwaist, to provide for which add six inches to the bust measure before drafting. The width of the back, front, length of shoulder, and size of armhole are proportionately increased by the method of the draft. If desired, the underarm seam can be drafted perfectly straight instead of sloping toward the centre back at waist.
Draft a Mannish shirt pattern from the following directions, using diagram, Fig. 45, as a guide in drafting.
Measures Required | Standard | |
Length of back............................ | 15½ | inches |
Length of front.......................... | 16 | inches |
Length of underarn........................... | 8 | inches |
Bust .................................38 plus 6 inches equals | 44 | inches |
Waist...................................... | 26 | inches |
Neck............................... | 13½ | inches |
Width of back......................... | .13% | inches |
Width of front.................................................. | 14 | inches |
Length (minus depth of cuff)........................... | 16½ | inches |
Armhole....................................... | 16 | inches |
Around upper arm............................... | 11½ | inches |
Around hand..................................... | 8 | inches |
 
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