5.6.2008
Well! I found mainstream T-shirts actually too mainstream -- both collar shirts and those ordinary blank collarless T-shirts or those with print -- so I designed my own model. For me, the collar shirt is too much of mainstream, too plastic, too uniform-like, too much of festivity, too formal, too rigid. And the blank or printed ordinary T-shirts I find too "non-fine" as such. So what I wanted about my design is more of the middle way: finer than T-shirt, and more minimalistic than the collar shirt. I guess this design has also some influence from traditional (= historical, folk costume) models.
Ok, now the only step remaining is actually make one of these shirts. Which I won't if I can find this kind of shirt somewhere. I have thought that better than T-shirt could be an ordinary long-sleeve shirt (with buttons in the sleeves), so if I make one, it will probably be of that kind. About the cloth: something similar to the ordinary collar shirt or the military shirt cloth (like in peltipaita, the old Finnish Defence Force field shirt) would be good.
A little piece of critics is that this model might turn out to look too much of an elevator boy or waitress shirt... hopefully not!
