Sewing Gage

Wanting to further practice my tailoring techniques I decided to make another shirt, this time for the boyfriend. Whilst we were in Paris, we visited an absolute textile heaven. Just to the east of the Sacre-Coeur in Montmartre is a huge range of shops and stores selling all kinds of fabric. I could have spent all day there, and all my money! Some of the shops have three metres of pre-cut fabric for fifteen euro. I picked up two such fabrics, one of them was this red, white and blue strip fabric. Very French! (well the boyfriend is french!) I decided to do a casual long sleeve shirt, so I chose McCall's pattern 2149. Again, I struggled with the collar and the cuffs, but at least I put the buttonholes on the right side this time. The collar button position is not in line with the other buttons, which was a mistake, but I kind of like this. Think i'm going to make this my trade mark collar.

I happened to be in Paris for work and heard about this exhibition at Les Arts Decoratifs celebrating the 70th anniversary of the creation of the House of Dior. It was an absolutely amazing exhibition, I hope to get some inspiration from this collection. Here's some highlight's;