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The Tailored Shirt #2: Cutting, Fabrics and Interfacing

In today’s work on the Men’s Tailored shirt, I cut the pattern, and trace it. But first, some more thoughts on the pattern.

Revisiting the Pattern

After ruminating more on the pattern instructions, as well as finishing the video segments of Pam Howard’s course, I think I’m going to go with View A of McCall’s 2447. View A produces a sportshirt-type collar, but more importantly the construction steps are very much like Pam Howard teaches in the class. Notably, it doesn’t include the collar facing and the pattern instructions read a lot like the class. So I think I will be going with View A.

There’s also some uncertainty over what size collar I should try – there’s three sizes S, M and L.  Without even measuring, I’m going to go with M and see how it turns out. There’s a method to my madness here – I’ll be using this muslin to do fitting on the boyfriend as well, so I’ll just use one muslin and see where everyone deviates from the pattern for fitting.

Cutting

Here’s McCall’s 2447 spread out on my floor in all its glory:

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Men’s Shirt Pattern: McCall’s 2447

m2447_cover_smThe last shirt pattern I have to review is McCall’s 2447. I originally wanted this pattern so I could do a “formal” dress shirt, one that’s much dressier than the other shirt patterns in my collection.

And McCall’s 2447 caters to that upscale feel, with companion patterns for a vest, tie, and bow tie. The silhouette on the vest also seems much nicer than the vest included with Simplicity 2741, though I haven’t compared the patterns yet to see how the shape varies between the two.

I have a few cuts of very fine Italian shirting that I picked up from Britex Fabrics during one of their rare sales, that is waiting to be made with this pattern. I thought I was going to be making this pattern much farther in the future, but it seems like the future is now.

Let’s look at the features in McCall’s 2447 that make it suitable for my shirtmaking class. Again, you can click/tap any picture for an expanded version.

Sleeve

m2447_sleeve_detail Here’s the detail of the end of the sleeve piece. A few notes: Continue reading