New Shirt

[Cruzatte]

Slowly working on an earlier impression. Sewed the shirt myself from linen. I did some hand sewing; the front is hand sewn, as are the button holes. The rest is machine sewn, because I was in a hurry to get it done.

 

[Cruzatte]

Thanks for moving this. I wasn't sure to which forum it should properly belong.

 

[Kansas Jake]

I like it.

 

[Tallswife]

nice work!

 

[BillinOregon]

Looks great -- and comfortable.

 

[smo]

Looks good Happy Birthday to ya too! :hatsoff:

 

[MountainRanger]

I like it too! :thumbsup:

 

[Cruzatte]

Looks good Happy Birthday to ya too! :hatsoff:

Thanks for the b. day wishes and to everyone else for the compliments on my shirt.

 

[MSW]

looks great!

 

[Cowboy]

I like it!

Respectfully, Cowboy :thumbsup:

 

[DOUBLEDEUCE 1]

Great looking shirt. :thumbsup:

 

[Grenadier1758]

Way too clean. Make it real with honest wear and tear. Wear it in good health.

 

[trent/OH]

Long length, and long sleeves help keep the mosquitoes at bay.

 

[Cruzatte]

Long length, and long sleeves help keep the mosquitoes at bay.

Yup. And long tails also partially conceal the fact that I'm wearing a breechclout. :haha:

 

[tenngun]

You still have to put on your breechclot.haha:

 

[satx78247]

I found out today (from an elder, who is interested in the transition from "traditional dress" to European-style attire) that after numerous NA men of "The 5 Civilized Tribes" became Church members that they wore trousers for "modesty" & with their breechclout OVER the trousers.

yours, satx

 

[tenngun]

Many tribesman did that. Dine, Apache and Navajo , have lots of photos from 1860s on show men clots over trousers.

 

[satx78247]

I'm primarily talking about 1640-1700s, when most of the "5 Civilized Tribes" adopted Christianity.
(By 1800 most of the Woodland folk were wearing European styles, that were little different than the typical missionary's daily dress. = Our Woodland women especially/routinely wore Moravian "plain dress" quite early, complete with white lace cap & apron.)

yours, satx

 

[tenngun]

Only in the line of thought. A man who had worn a clot all his life may have just not wanted to give it up. So get up in the morning and pull trousers or breeches over your clot.
I don't know if the Cherokee did this or not but several tribes didn't let boys wear clots until they had passed some sort of manhood line. So adopting European clothing and European religion may have still left a man uncomfortable to give up his mark of manhood. After all I know pink and lace were popular on men, but ... I still don't wear them.

 

[satx78247]

You may be 100% correct. = Traditional dress generally changes slowly.

yours, satx