earlier 19th century to Civil War HOMESPUN LINEN SHIRT
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Direct from decades of attic trunk storage, this outstanding mans shirt remains in excellent plus condition with no mothing, tears or repairs. The shirt would have been considered a loose fitting medium to medium large in its day and remains in as solid condition as the day it was made. The heavy linen homespun construction is of both hand and machine stitching as is appropriate to late 1840s, 50s and earlier 1860s. Like this example, shirts of this style and period were generally machine stitched with gathered hand stitched seams at the cuffs, the underside of the collar and hand binding of the button holes. The buttons are of natural shell. Our drawing, shown here with the photographs, will do best to illustrate construction of the shirt. The roll collar, panel shoulder reinforcements and gussets under the selves with square cut body offer good evidence of period style and construction in the common work / utility shirt. These features were a requirement of the 1861 regulation Army issue shirt. (see: Smithsonian Institution collection original, U. S. PATTERN BOOK - FATIGUE UNIFORMS of 1861-1855 by Patricia T. Gibbs) Good illustrations with variations of the common mans utility shirt may be seen in Time Lifes ECHOES OF GLORY Arms & Equipment of the Confederacy. A tough item to find with the vast majority of examples used
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