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?

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

You can get it at Historiska Museet in Stockholm, but I think the easiest would be to order it from www.handelsgillet.se

/Eva

[ragnvaeig.livejournal.com]

Thank you. If I don't order a copy in the near future, I'll pick one up in Stockholm in April.