My Christmas present to my boys this year is a tailored shirt for each one; in pin-striped linen with contrasting white collar, cuffs, and buttonbands, and a double welted breast pocket with looped button closure.
Three shirts in addition to Cassie's outfit and Craig's birthday shirt. Phew! These have kept me super busybusybusy, nose to thegrindstone sewing machine for the last few weeks since we got back from Melbourne! This is the first year I've made three long-sleeved shirts for Christmas, the past few years I've made things a little easier on myself by slipping at least one short-sleeved one in there. The cuffs and little sleeve plackets are quite a bit of work, and a short sleeved shirt feels almost quick and easy by comparison. In the past I've always given each item I make its own post, and particularly because of the amount of work that goes into a highly tailored item like a man's shirt, I kinda reckon they deserve a post each; but this time I just couldn't with that. It's all been just too much!
All three shirts are made using Burda 7767, with the personal fitting modifications for each of my men that I've fine-tuned over many many shirts. How many of these am I up to?? Must be over 30 of them by now, I think.
Craig's is a white with purple pin-stripe and brown-y purple buttons, Tim's is a charcoal with white pin/stripe and black buttons, and Sam's is a white with blue pin-stripe and caramel-coloured buttons. All three pin-striped linens are from Tessuti's in Melbourne, bought during my recent girls' weekend away with Mum and Cassie; and all the buttons are from Fabulous Fabrics. The white contrasting fabric is a silk/linen mix bought from Fabulous Fabrics. I've totally hoarded this lovely and quite expensive stuff for aaaages and had toyed with bravely cutting into it for one for my own SWAP projects, but decided that my boys deserved the best... (deep breath, must learn to let go of precious fabrics) Fortunately I should still have enough to make something for myself. Bonus!
All the seams are flat-felled; I used my own tutorial for flat-felling a curved seam to get a nice finish along those sleeve caps. Craig's shirt has a long curved hemline because it's more business-like, and the boys' shirts both have straight hemlines with a lapped split side seam.
My review of this excellent pattern is here
Three shirts in addition to Cassie's outfit and Craig's birthday shirt. Phew! These have kept me super busybusybusy, nose to the
All three shirts are made using Burda 7767, with the personal fitting modifications for each of my men that I've fine-tuned over many many shirts. How many of these am I up to?? Must be over 30 of them by now, I think.

All the seams are flat-felled; I used my own tutorial for flat-felling a curved seam to get a nice finish along those sleeve caps. Craig's shirt has a long curved hemline because it's more business-like, and the boys' shirts both have straight hemlines with a lapped split side seam.
My review of this excellent pattern is here