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: