(This is the last of my three summer shirts. I wore the 'boy shirt' with back pleats, now stitched down at the waist, to a rehearsal at the Verbier Music Festival yesterday. The run-through was in the village school gym, where the astounding Russian maestro Valery Gergiev was training up the VF orchestra including my fiddler kid lost in the Forest of Bows.
But after two hours of Tchaikovsky in blistering morning heat, I stood up with a crumpled and miserable mess at my back where the pleats had been. Still don't get that design...)
This, on the other hand, was fun to sew, shaping from shoulder 38 to 41 waist, and even more fun to wear, in a modified broderie anglaise fabric approximating the Kenzo look. It's a cotton-poly mix that doesn't crumple like the broadcloth.
Only one thing, I just can't button my shirts up to the neck. I guess this is a generational thing, but I. just. can't.
Your shirt is gorgeous. I have that issue from the library and want one now! I can't do the button to the neck either... what's with that anyway?
ReplyDeleteI think it's a holdover of the 'emo' look or a nerd look or something. But at my age, one can't afford to look that uptight. Thanks for commenting!
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