The Sture shirts

[frualeydis]

There are four shirts preserved from the Sture murders in the 16th century (you probably all know about the costumes, since they are in Janet Arnold's book Patterns of Fashion). The shirts are afaik only published in a little booklet in swedish. They are rather alike all of them and are based on rectangles, like for example the Warwick shirt. There are a few things that are different though.





See the cut-off corners on top of the pieces? Those are about a decimetre long and when the straight sleeve is sewn in there, like you do with the more normal T-construction, you get a more shaped sleevehead.
All the shirts are very long, though I don't know what is considered normal. They're about 125 cm long. They're also wide, the widest is made of two 115 cm wide pieces.
Except for 6 cm in each side, the straight tops are gathered and sewn to the collar.

Comments

[ragnvaeig.livejournal.com]

I've been looking for an article that might discuss those shirts since I saw Lia was doing one. Would it be moderately easy to find that booklet in Uppsala/Stockholm, or should I look for its publisher and try to order?

[pearl]

I'm sure you would have seen this already, but there is a dress diary and photo gallery of the actual shirt here.

Are there any other shirts that share that shaped sleevehead idea? That's really clever.

[bippimalin.livejournal.com]

I'm not totally sure I follow you now.
Isn't it the diagonal bits that are the shoulder seam?

[sneprinsesse.livejournal.com]

I read about long shirts in the folder about the mens Ringeriksbunad (not in this article, but it has beautiful pictures anyway), that they used to have long shirts so they could cross the shirt between the legs, because they didn't have anything else between themselves and their trousers.

Perhaps that is also why the Sture shirts are so long?

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

That's really neat. What is the title of the book?

[therru.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing this!

[jillwheezul.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info on how to get this booklet Eva! I've been trying to get it from the library but they will not lend it. Yay!

[brambleberry.livejournal.com]

There's a translated copy in English at the Library of Congress...