Figuring out my classic shirt

Round one was OK, but it wasn’t quite there.

Round two is almost a perfect base shirt.

Surprisingly to me, because I was fairly happy with the first draft, I added quite a bit of ease to this shirt. 5/8” to each centre front piece and another 1/4” at the shoulders, tilting the armscye. Along with the change to the sleeve shape that I did last time, this feels like an entirely new draft at this point! And I love the kind of weird shaped armscye that I’ve been left with.

Annnnyway, I did make one wild mistake on this shirt, and that was I somehow shortened the back but not the front? It has created an automatic French tuck shirt, where the back will not stay tucked in but the front basically has to be, aesthetically, and does so securely.

I think the next round is either to return to the original pattern attraction: the trench capelet (I love a capelet, it turns out?) or to make a western shirt and really put to use the beautiful wonderful fringe my husband got me for Orville Peck mask purposes back in 2020.

Next time: Tiny bit more ease at neckline, true front and back lengths. Double check the pattern corresponds to this shirt in case I didn’t transfer all errors!