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Hepville

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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.

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Hepville

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Thank you guys!

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

Nick D

Call Me a Cab
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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

Call Me a Cab
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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.

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Hepville

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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.
 

Hepville

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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:
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Gin&Tonics

Practically Family
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The outer frontier
A couple of watch chains I made today:

A single Albert with fob drop:
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I'm not especially happy with the chain for this one; I will try to find something better.

A double Albert with fob drop:
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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:
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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:
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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! :D
 
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Shangas

I'll Lock Up
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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.
 

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