It sure has the 70s look I was going for.
Patty seems to like it too.
After one try with this design I redid it,using rayon instead of cotton for the vines. The flower is cotton, vintage thread that came with the machine. The check fabric is poly cotton, probably from the 70s. I got it from a 90 yr old who used to have textile stores in Toronto.
Someone I know has this beautiful shirt. Women’s, wool gabardine, home-made.
It’s about a size ten. Would look great worn like a jacket. Email goldenwestclothing at gmail if you’re interested.
Charcoal tencel twill with cat-eye buttons. The buttons are almost black, with a deep red hue in the right light.
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Continuous placket on the sleeve. Sideseams on this and all the shirts are single needle flat fell with the welt on the outside.
I’ve been trying out some shirts in Tencel twill. It’s a lot like rayon gabardine, so good for reproducing early styles. The black one is modeled after a 40s gabardine, and the blue after a style done for Sears, probably in the 60s. Both had chainstitch embroidery in rainbow rayon.
The black one has the same angled cuffs as the original.
It also has vintage shell buttons, piped back yoke, and hand-done arrowhead tacks.
I dyed the blue and grey, since colours like that are impossible to find. The dye process changes the fabric, reducing the brushed finish so the twill weave is more apparent, and the dyed colours have greater depth and density.
This one has dark shell buttons. Both these shirts have removable collar stays, too. I’ve started using those recently and prefer that way to sewing them right inside the collar. Makes them easier to press, or, as I prefer–not press.
These also have a continuous placket on the sleeve, like most rayon shirts in the 50s and 60s.
Hank Snow wears a shirt like this in 1950, as a member of the Grand Old Opry baseball team. This one is organic cotton, with offwhite bamboo rayon piping.
fringe pullover
Pullover lace-up cowboy shirts are a timeless classic. One of the most famous, by Nudie, has to be this one of Lefty Frizzell’s, on display at the Country Music Hall of Fame, and on the cover of his 1959 LP The One and Only Lefty Frizzell.
There sure is a difference between a picture and seeing the real thing up close.
The one I made was a custom order, in burnt orange cotton with a rayon fringe on the front, back, and sleeves. It has shotgun cuffs and piped smile pockets with arrowhead tacks. It’s going to be worn by the cowboy in the picture below, who rides his horse Poco in competitions called “Cowboy Mounted Shooting” a sport that has been growing in popularity since the early 90s.
Randall and Poco Bueno Pistol Flip
Horse and rider race through a course, shooting targets with single action pistols.
Some wear Old West costumes, others more modern kinds of westernwear.
Hopefully the fringe shirt will bring some luck to Poco.
I’d like to see this sport in the next Olympics. Getting a little tired of all that dressage and show jumping, red coats and velvet hats!
Why not add a little cowboy to the Olympics? I mean, real ones.
France's Nathalie Pechalat and Fabian Bourzat perform their original dance at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics
Nowhere was the desire to be a cowboy more obvious at the current Olympics than in the theme-costume laden sport of ice dancing. An American pair, a British pair and two pairs from France all went West for their outfits. Never seen a cowboy in chaps like that, but who am I to say.
backslant pocket, black piping
Organic poplin with piping. Shotgun cuffs.
I’ve liked this style ever since seeing this picture of Pee Wee King’s Golden West Cowboys.
Pee Wee King's Golden West Cowboys
Pee Wee (born Julius Frank Anthony Kuczynski in Milwaulkee) was a real innovator. He got on the Opry in 1937 and went on to introduce drums, amplified guitar, steel guitar and Nudie Suits to country music’s biggest show.
Pee Wee’s most famous hit, written with vocalist Redd Stewart, was “Tennessee Waltz”. Eddie Arnold, Ernest Tubb and Cowboy Copas sang with his band early in their careers. He had one of the first country TV shows, starting in 1947.
He played accordion, unlike other western swing bandleaders like Bob Wills and Spade Cooley, who played fiddle. He was the first to dress himself and the whole band in Nudie clothes. Pee-Wee’s were some of Nudie’s first personalized outfits, with crown shapes and embroidery. There are some incredible embroidered shirts in this video, “Oh Monah”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Upwbn9n_0E&feature=related
Pee Wee King on accordian, his songwriting partner and vocalist Redd Stewart on fiddle
The Golden West Cowboys mix ragtime and steel guitar in western shirts in the late 40s
I make western shirts and jackets, and do chainstitch embroidery. I also write about Hank Snow, the history of westernwear and country music, slow fashion, and Willie Nelson's rap sheet.
