How to Make an 18th Century Shift | Sewing by Hand

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In this video tutorial I will walk you through how to hand sew your very own shift appropriate for the 1770s.

Shift Kit
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SOURCES:

1. Instructions for Cutting out Apparel for the Poor
https://archive.org/details/b2875606x

2. Garsault's L'art de la Lingere
https://archive.org/details/b30448992

3. Patterns of Fashion 5 by the School of Historical Dress
http://theschoolofhistoricaldress.org...

4. Burnley & Trowbridge's Hand Sewing Tutorial Series for their slightly different gathered sleeve technique
   • Short Skills Tutorial: Gathering Shirt to ...  

5. Many of Jean-Baptiste Greuze's paintings (including all three included in the video)
"The Broken Vessel" https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
"The Complain of the Watch"
"Indolence" https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Ba...

6. Many, many extant shifts (but here are just a few)
https://manchesterartgallery.org/coll...
http://m.vam.ac.uk/collections/item/O...
https://emuseum.history.org/objects/4...

7. Extant shift in my collection

8. Years of trial and error, honestly.

Also I can't put screen caps of newspaper articles here but I'd be happy to share them if you'd like.

If you haven’t already, please check out http://www.larsdatter.com/18c/index.html because if I ever forget where I’ve seen something, there’s a great chance there’s a link to it on there.

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Other Shift Tutorials/Instructions:

Morgan Donner's Shirt/Shift video will show you how to drape a neckline on yourself
   • Making Basic Medieval Underwear  

Sharon Burnston’s Website (includes some great tutorials on infant clothing as well as shifts)
http://www.sharonburnston.com

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Excellent shift linen from Burnley & Trowbridge
https://burnleyandtrowbridge.com/coll...

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