I made my husband a sexy vampire shirt || Interview with the Vampire Costume || 18th Century Sewing
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For years I've been making my husbands 18th century shirts with tiny handsewn details that I doubt anyone would notice. In this video, I discuss the history behind these shirts, as well as how to make them. I do highly recommend buying the pattern from At the Sign of the Golden Scissors so you have all the information at hand.
Gwen Russell is found on Instagram at:
/ russellandhaslam
And her website is also gwenrussell.com
Materials:
Pattern from At the Sign of the Golden Scissors: atthesignofthegoldenscissors....
Linen fabric from Zadie Grossman www.zadiegrossman.com/
Linen Cambric for the ruffles from Burnley and Trowbridge burnleyandtrowbridge.com/
I am in fact a Baby Lock Ambassador and these are the machines I use: @Baby Lock Sewing Machines
Embroidery Machine: Venture: babylock.com/machines/multi-n...
Sewing Machine: Soprano: babylock.com/machines/sewing/...
Serger: Victory: babylock.com/machines/serger/...
Digitizing Software: Palette 11: babylock.com/accessories/soft...
What I’m wearing this week:
Several of the dresses were from Selkiecollection.com and several were from Linennaive. They both make awesome dresses.
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One of the best shirtsleeves situations was in ‘Sense and Sensibility’ (1995). Alan Rickman, Hugh Grant and Greg Wise were instantly hot 🔥
OH MY GOD YES. :D
I was just thinking I bet even my Boomer ex-husband would look good in a nice pirate shirt.😂
Yeah… Willaby was hawt. That’s one of my favorite movies just for the story too. The gorgeous suits on the guys doesn’t hurt.
"I hope that he looks at it and is reminded that someone who loves him made it for him." This is so sweet! Whenever I get frustrated if the sewing/knitting gifts I make for people don't go according to plan, I need to remember this
Not to take away from the validity of the closing comments but I really appreciate Sewstine for gathering us all together to relish in the elite kink category that is men's 18th century linen shirts for 21 minutes!!
Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise in that movie has me in a chokehold for decades too. It's just something about that movie that has a huge portion of us still obsessed with those two. They have been living rent free in my head since elementary school. When you mention that the clothes where historically accurate and they used orginals as reference you can tell they put in alot of work. At the time I had to info on historical garments and how they looked in real life but for some reason the entire wardrobe for that movie looks absolutely stunning and now I know why. The more I educate myself either from your channel or other historian lovers I'm also starting to spot the differences but not as great as someone like you or others who handle recreations.
YES! Honestly, there are SO many outfits I want to make from this movie!
The dog eating the mic - LOL Perfect timing there buddy
Love that you were like "okay. Little dog is banished from this video. Big dog, it's your time to shine!" 😂❤
I absolutely love how Sewstine uses her platform to also highlight how much of popular culture, film, and media omits critical thoughts about racial injustice. THANK YOU!!
Making such a shirt is on my wish list.
Fun fact from a coffee nerd - the process of roasting the beans actually removes caffeine; the longer they roast, the lower the caffeine content. Obviously your taste preferences come first, and there is a psychological element at play, but light roast coffee is actually more caffeinated than dark roast!
Dark roasts also mask the flavor of the beans. I’m guessing they are also the reason most coffees taste like charcoal to me.
Totally jumping in a year later. It wasn't until I worked at a Cafe that I finally understood why I hated the taste of decaf for that very reason! It's just burnt coffee, basically 😂
Thackery Binx shirt! I have a ruffled shirt but this makes me want to make it out of linen instead of the charmeuse satin I currently have (worst fabric ever to do a ruffle shirt, I did hand sew the hem and sleeve cuffs because of the holes the pins left in the fabric, I didn't trust myself with the pins and couldn't find my clips 🤦♀️ don't laugh but it's a burnt orange charmeuse 🤣
Me: "It looks great but I can't imagine putting all that work into a shirt, I don't get it"
Also me: watching this while I work on a knit lace peacock shawl, a couple months in and about halfway through, that is so heavily beaded it will likely be more bead than yarn by weight, and on some rows a bead is placed every other stitch.
...ok, maybe I get it.
Thank you! Also wow that sounds absolutely epic!! Good luck!
Thank you for your video and for your final acknowledgement at the end. I deeply appreciate watching your videos whenever they post. Thank you for sharing your passion.
Thank you so much! I really appreciate your kind note!
I am also a sucker for a good 18th-19th century shirt. ( I will fight you for Horatio Hornblower, by the way! ) I made one for my husband, and he likes it. He calls it his pirate shirt.
It’s nice to see a video from you again! Your artistry gives us such joy. 👏🏽
such a clean sewing and all done by hand ! 🤯
I could see the dog going for the mic cord even before the zoom, because doggy’s face was the exact face my cat made before he chewed up my laptop charger and shorted out my laptop...
😭😂 oh man you understand!!
Men in pirate shirts are instantly 200% hotter, and that is a fact XD
Thanks for the video and the info, I didn't know linen takes longer to dry 💀I'll probably try to make one for myself in cotton, at least to get some practice. I'm already dressing in a more genderless style anyways, so I'll go for the ruffles and comfort all the way ✨
And oh Louis, he wasn't precisely the smartest guy, so the scene of the burning house and "let the slaves be free" is not too much of a genius move lol
And historically, I bet no one would feel really bad when it comes to slaves, so even if is a sad note what you said about Louis, is probably historically accurate 😕
If I remember correctly, in the movie Louis screams that all the slaves must run away during the house fire. I was a kid (and from another country, we never had slaves from Africa) and somehow I assumed he freed them. Now I understand that fleeing undocumented would make the slaves' lives even harder. They would be captured, beaten and resold to new slave owners. Seems like Louis never did the right thing.
Exactly. Perhaps, in his damned mind, he thought this woulda been helpful for the slaves to just make their own way, away from the plantation. He lost his capacity to think ahead a long long time ago. Even before falling into vampirism, it seems he was already making one mistake after another.
That's a realy good point CB - yes he freed them, but not in any way that would have made things easy or good for them. And rather than burn his house down, perhaps giving them all a lot of land would have been more sensible. But I'm afraid Louis was generally not sensible about anything.
This couldn’t have come at a better time. I’ve been working (though it’s more like looking at the pattern, making a test scrap and then deciding I can’t do it yet) on one of these shirts to live out my 1820s vampiric fantasy but ultimately falling at every hurdle. So thank you for this video and bless your little dog haha. ❤
Me, slowly realising the dog has started chewing on what looks like the mic wire: ...hmm, that doesn't look like a good situation.... *audio dies 10 seconds later*
"....But, I HAVE A TYPE!" Ahahaha, best bit!
The tip to pull one linen thread then cut is amazing! I'll definitely try that for my next linen project. Definitely agree, something about these style of shirts is really attractive
**reads title** You mean you haven’t already? It’s adorable on him. Hehe
Great to watch while I do some handsewing on a dress.
“I have a type” 😂 I’m screaming
Omg your doggies are so cute
A gorgeous shirt and a thoughtful video AND your make-do headphones as mic MATCHES YOUR DRESS
I truly appreciate how you try your hardest to share the complete history of a person, time period or clothing (reason for creation, purpose, end of use). Your meticulousness makes me wonder what you and @Bernadette_Banner could create if you joined forces. Probably not with embroidery unless you are as well skilled in hand embroidery as your Babylock machine...
Not the little heart gusset finally pushing me over the edge after years of wanting to make one of these 😂
Thanks for listing your resources in the description, it's so much easier to feel confident about making one!
i loved seeing those gorgeous shirts in the movie so much i didn't even look at the actors wearing them lol, but then i am 70 years old now and i was in my forties when the movie came out in the 90s.
Thank you so much for the super close ups of your work process! I've been stalling forever on my own linen shirt projects because of the need for stitch perfection™️ and I feel like this video might come in handy.... when I finally get working on those lol
Oh my gods you're a genius. Next time I do a pirate shirt, I am absolutely sewing down my hems for the cuffs and stuff BEFORE sewing the sleeve together. That looks so much easier 😂
That jacket embroidery on your hubbs blue suit is beautiful too. I’d love to have something like that.
YEEEES! I was waiting for This one!
Absolutely stunning and beautifully crafted.
16:05 - that is the cutest thing!
This is perfection.
This video is delightful! I am only halfway through and I have laughed so much 'I have a tyyyype' is so so so relatable!
I just found you’re channel and you are so cool! LIKE A DOCTOR THAT MAKES COOL CLOTHES!!
Thanks 'Sewstine" for being so compassionate and observant. It is appreciated. And if I had enough patience, I'd try one of those shirts.....Now on the machine......
Fantastic shirt, great to see the context put into place too :)
I hope you don't have too much longer camping in AirB&B before you can move into your new home.
Beautiful work! ❤❤
That shirt looked amazing!! Love a good frilly shirt!
I have wanted to make a shirt like this for myself for AGES, and there are so few tutorials. Can't wait to try it out!
“It turns out I have a tyyyyype” 😂😂😂
I laughed so hard when you replace your dog lol
Gorgeous shirt! Really enjoyed the video
The shirt is poetry! I love it. The make-do doing you did to make content left me totally content with the doing that you did. Thank you for addressing the flaw that I, too, objected to in the Vampire movie. Thank you, also, for not throwing out the baby with the bath water! Flaws do not negate an entire work. Silence about these flaws is reprehensible. Lastly, I love the yellow flowered dress you wore in your disclaimer bit. :)
Thyank you so much for the note! And seriously... Thank you for understanding! I am all about acknowledging flaws, learning from them, and still enjoying the material.
Thank you so much! I've been trying to find a good tutorial for a while
This shirt is amazing! But I did keep thinking about the Seinfeld episode with the pirate shirt and laughing while watching this video! LOL
Thanks! Indeed a great time in history for men's fashion.
This cometeer thing sounds great! My husband hates coffee, and I drink it only a few times a year, but we live in the middle of nowhere and have extended-stay guests who like it. I just checked the shelf life, and it's 24 months! We can just chuck them in the freezer for when our mothers or sisters visit!
It sucks that they don't have a one-time purchase option, though. Quitting a subscription after one month always feels somehow like cheating.
Glad you enjoyed making these. I found it really fun too although mine is no where near so fancy.
Beautiful shirt with such lovely hand-stitching. Very romantic.
You're just pure awesomeness - I'm literally a Sewstine wannabe - med school, sewing AND fluffy dog 😊 Gideon is such a sweet floofball, I'd like to think my lady is very floofy, but most likely she's getting chubby ..(I'm still far away from that level of awesome -no wonderful husband or baby, no beautiful house, lacking second dog, patience and long hair - but working on the dog 😂) ❤️ Everything you do!
These are so handsome. Thank you for sharing
this is a delight!
You inspire so many projects of mine and I'm so scared the urge to hand-sew another linen short will take hold of me in the next few months
Nice shirt! ❤️
Lovely job !!! Labor intensive but well worth it !!! Maybe one day i will attempt it. I am new to sewing costumes so it will be a later project but thank you for sharing i hope when i do attempt it i can still look back on this video. Have a fantastic day ❤🙏
Great vlog and interesting details. A shame more men do not dress like this. But for me the star of this vlog was the very lovely yellow dress you are wearing at the end!!! AND your adorable little furry vandal at the beginning.
10:10 what ink is that, it looks so lovely and delicate and i desperately need it haha. the finished shirt looks amazing, mad props to you for sewing in the middle of a big move.
Ooh! It's the Sailor Manyo Nekoyanagi! It's my absolute favorite! :D SO glad you noticed how pretty the ink is! The nib I'm using is a triple broad oblique - obsessed with a wet, wide nib myself!
I'm working on the lazy/ lower class version of this shirt right now! Unbleached linen with small pleats instead of gathers and no ruffles. I'm also debating how to close it, since 16th c shirts are more flexible... but I can't wait to wear it history bounding, and I didn't know about The Stitch!
Yeah, Cruise before he started jumping on couches. Fun fact - his family briefly lived on our Ottawa-east suburban street. His sister (the manager behind the couch jumping) was in classes with my big sister and had a bit of a rep for... drama...
That shirt is absolutely lovely. The details... just dreamy. It's going to be amazing in the Hall of Mirrors.
I haven't seen the movie since it came out. So watching it with older eyes would be... an _interesting_ experience, I'm sure. Thanks for pointing out the pitfalls of the book & movie. And thank you for highlighting the work of the costume team.
I'm in the camp that, if handled directly and intelligently, vampires could be a really interesting lens to work out some conversations we need to have about the history of this continent (I type as a fan of Abraham Lincoln - Vampire Hunter).
In any event. Good luck with the rest of the move. Congrats for getting out a video in the middle of all the upheaval.
- Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi
❤❤❤❤❤Love love love this shirt. Magnificent. I don’t know why you didn’t make the matching linen neck tie. (Cravat?) It seems to complete the look as you said. As that was historically accurate. Not a lace ruffled Jabot, which as you said was a later style. Your hand stitches were as perfect as your lovely hands. 🧵🪡🥼🧵🪡🥼🧵🪡🥼🧵🪡🥼🧵🪡🥼🧵🪡🥼You are so beautiful and smart and amazing. You are my idea of a Renaissance Woman. Your talents are in both the sciences and the arts. Your sense of curiosity and wonder is easily conveyed in your posts. You are inspiring. So… wishing you the very best with your move. Looking forward to many more exciting episodes of the sewing doctor and mother and wife in the twenty first century. 🥰🙏🥰🙏🥰🙏🥰🙏 can’t wait to see your new sewing room, the dogs, you family and the new home. 🎄🌳🌲🌳🏡🎄🌳🌲🌳💚❤️💚 best wishes for a happy thanksgiving.
I love the shirt, but my gods that waistcoat I spied in the video looks awesome! Love embroidery
At some point I'll learn to sew to make a shirt like this for myself, they just look awesome and comfortable to boot (always a plus), alas not able to at the moment (no time really)
Thank you, that was so enjoyable
awesome shirt!
It is absolute fact that 18th century shirts are incredibly sexy... Very lovely work!
Your videos always make me want to improve
All the best for your move ❤
Oh noooo the soft nomming on the cable TTTTTTT
Hmmm, all these years later and still Adam and the Ants, in there, in the brain 😉🤩
Don't mind me being like the Sicko™ peering into the window looking at the frilly shirt 😏😉🤣
Also that section on jabots is enlightening 🙈, and on Louis' character in the 1994 movie (and book) too. So far I had only consumed IWTV through social media osmosis, especially with the airing of the TV show. I hadn't read the book myself but as far as I can tell many people (who are way more into this than I am 😅) dig the changes made in the series. Maybe the only downside to the new series is the shifting period so we have different clothes from the one in the movie (I mean there was an 18th C masquerade ball scene to compensate for it but still...) but win some lose some I guess (and I feel like we still win A Lot in the end 😆🙈)
(Also first the Harlots' costume designer and now one of the IWTW movie's costumer? Dang Christine you got some contacts! 😏😎✨)
Ah! i HAVE A CAVALIER! I love your dog! Lol little stinkers sometimes aren't they? Also love the shirt. ;)
Hi sewstine! Please make a tutorial on different ways to make a ruffle for the collar, cuffs and design for victorian gowns/dress
💖👑👑💖🎬🎥📽👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼XX💖🤗💖XX Hello sewtine its so lovely and a treat to have a video again .Hope you and your boys are doing great you look Great sending lots of love and l hope you are getting settled in your new home XXX
One thing I love about the 1994 movie is that Lestat is wearing a very very fancy suit. Like the whole time.
I'm in love with the sunflower dress you're wearing at the end of the video! Did you make it or order it from somewhere? Could you share any and all links regarding this completed item or pattern, fabric, etc? Thank you 😍
I love the dress you are wearing. What pattern did you use? BTW, as a nurse, I appreciate a doctor who has excellent penmanship. I hate the guesswork needed taking off orders for docs who can't even read their own writing.
Oh my god, the GUFFAW i let out when your dog started chewing on the cable and the audio actually cut out!!
Versailles. Will you be recreating Marie Antoinette's Grand Habit which is in the Royal Ontario Museum and made by Rose Bertin? It was nice seeing Gideon and HOPE YOU ALL NHAVE A HAPPY THANKSGIVING
Wow so beautiful ❤
I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one who thinks 18 century shirts make men extremely sexy :D. I wonder if it's the drooping shoulder which makes the shoulders look wider or the skin-close appearance on the linen on the chest. I love it. Thank you for explaining 'the stitch', I had never heard of it. It's a great video and a beautiful shirt.
ok I LOVE how you don't sew underwear.... unless it's sexy underwear for your husband. lol. it came out gorgeous!
For a doctor you have lovely handwriting!
I can wait to watch you move into your new studio!!!!
Thank you for a great video, it was really interesting. To your note about Louis not feeling morally wrong for being a slave owner - I don’t think it’s wrong in the plot, quite the opposite. Typically a person from that time period wouldn’t feel bad about it, during that time it was something normal. From what I noticed from Anne Rice’s books the characters and environment were always really accurate. She did her research well…I imagine if we could speak with a real person who lived then it would probably be similar… For the record- I myself think it’s very wrong, obviously.
I wasn’t referring to the historical accuracy of it- I’m sure you’re right that it is historically accurate. It’s just the morality and the hypocrisy of questioning the nature of vampirism but not the nature of slave owning. And generally, the 90s were not a time of deep questioning of racial morality. And again- still love the costumes in the movie but as a POC watching the movie again, it struck a cord in me.
@@Sewstine That is nonsense. Slavery has always been a subject of criticism, in the 90s no different than today. For as long as there have been films being produced, the issue has been dealt with cinematically, no matter the decade. The script described a character who had problems with killing people, not with exploiting people. If Louis had been portrayed as a character who liked to torture his slaves and kill them with his own hands, killing would not have been difficult for him, even as a vampire.
Your postscript is basically superfluous, because of course no one in their right mind would find slave labour morally okay. It would also not occur to anyone to see your video about the actors' clothing and your production of such a shirt as morally questionable, unless someone is a moralising attention-seeker who thinks he has to position himself as a do-gooder in this way. Your own goodness is not measured by what you think you need to distance yourself from. It is enough to have this conviction internally without holding it up as a shield externally.
Your handiwork is superb, the result very successful.
YOU'RE IN ILLINOIS???? Hello from Bloomington Normal!!!
I liked your video
I not wait see build new sewin room
You can't go wrong with ruffled men's shirt. Even Kermit the Frog, in Muppet Treasure Island, looks good in ruffled shirts
That coffee is cold brew - infinitely superior to hot. Also, can live in the ice chest during a month with no power after a hurricane. 🙄
Speaking of Interview with the Vampire! Would you ever make a dress from that film?
The final blue and green dresses before the sun would be stunning on you.
Louis didn't feel bad about being a slave owner because at the time that was de normal and he probably convinced himself he was better than other owners because he made sure that they had everything they needed, that's why everyone was so concern about how he was acting when Lestat came to live with him, never the less, the girl that gave them the food to the table didn't fear to word out this concern, even when he said he was fine, she insisted, meaning he did treated them like human beings that were dependen on him, not ordering them not to talk unless spoken to first and all that,. He also permited them to have free of religion, making all that noise that had Lestat so angry. So of course he felt guilty about killing and not that because it was normaliced and he didn't tortured or mistreated their people. Of course is not a good thing and we can see that now, I'm sure he saw that eventually, as he DID freed the slaves when he burned the plantation to de ground. And even so, let's point out that even where they were freed they didn't go right away, he had to scare them away with fire.
He never wrote any legal papers about freeing the slaves. Undocumented slaves who "run away" would face very harsh treatment from authorities.🤔
@@cb9825 very true!
You forgot to mention Labyrinth!
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He did free his slaves in the movie. He said your master is a devil you are all free and told them to get out of there.
Actually, when you say "we" use 5/8 inches, that is a very american thing. here in sweden were I live, we use 0,5 - 1 cm. I think that is the same in inches as you mentioned as "tiny" :) I'm always baffled by americans complaining about not having enough fabric...and then using gigantic seem allowances.
Lol agreed that it’s a huge seam allowance!’
The fact that men's shirts aren't remotely like these anymore is a tragedy. The day men will understand how incredibly beautiful and sexy those are, maybe they'll bring them back for real.
The 1994 IWTV movie really couldn’t adress the moral injustice of slavery, as it would never have occurred to the characters that there was any injustice. (Please remember that Lois was even frowned upon for treating his slaves gently...) In the 18'th century the church approved of slavery, as well as a number of other unsavory things!
Personally I find the pediphillic aspects of the child vampire much more disturbing..