Chemisettes?

[cosmoblue]

What do you do about chemisettes? Is there a good pattern that you use? Which fabrics do you usually use?

[Mrs. Goblin]

I have a chemisette Goblin made for me using La Mode Bagatelle's pattern. He used white cotton and I believe starched the neck frill to get it to stand for me. You can see it peeping out from the neckline of the spencer here: goblinrevolution.org/cgi-bin/pic_frame.cgi?pic=laha-austen.2005-5.jpg;list=indicies/lahaausten2005.index;base=costumes

I would like to make one out of linen and construct it more like a man's shirt to wear with a theoretical riding habit I'd also like to make someday.

[Goblin, esq.]

I don't believe a actually used a pattern, just the experience I had from making men's shirts. It's just a rectangle of muslin with a teardrop shaped neck opening, with a ruffle all around the opening. The hen on the front and back edges is also a casing for a piece of twill tape that goes through the back, under the arms, through the fronts and ties in front to keep it all in place.

Fine linen would be the ideal material, and possibly the shape of the neck-opening could be improved.,

[dawnluckham]

At the bottom of this page, scroll down to “Bonus!” and there is free instruction on how to make a chemisette.

As mentioned already, there are patterns out there, but this is such an easy thing to make, you really probably don’t need a pattern.

The Sense and Sensibility underthings pattern has two styles of chemisettes included. The La Mode pattern has a chemisette included,
And Rocking Horse Farms has a chemisette in the apron pattern.

Those are the ones I can think of just off the top of my head.

[dawnluckham]

OOops! Sorry, forgot the link to the free pattern.

www.sensibility.com/pattern/dropfront/index.htm

[cosmoblue]

dawnluckham - Thanks for adding that link.