My hand-stitches look like they were made by a drunk fisherman’s wife with poor eyesight, so I’m going to give myself 10/10 on historical accuracy. Also, you look very handsome! I wish this style would come back in. Excellent video, sir.

Fantastic!! I've now a shirt of my own which cost no more than $12 with the help of this video! A note for others who might endeavor to follow this pattern: I being a woman of a smaller frame have discovered that some adjustments needed to be made in the process of measuring and cutting. I found specifically that the cut of the collar, cuffs, and in my case sleeves also, needed particular attention. I'll try to put this as simply as possible, that by using the chest measurement as a base for understanding the proportions of the rest of the garment led to some proportional inconsistencies. One can imagine, on a much larger chested man, the collars and cuffs would become much larger and on a smaller chested one, they would become much smaller. This was exactly my issue. For anyone who may see this, *I urge them to take notice especially of the shoulder stay* and where it lies from the base of the neck to off the shoulder. A great number of troubles I would have saved myself if I were not too eager, and had double-checked to see not if my equations were accurate, but that my measurements were accurate to how I wanted the garment to fit. Overall though, as a beginner, I highly recommend this pattern, it having me taken two days hand-sewn! Many thanks to Mathew, who has started me on my journey to sewing more regency wear. :)

Wow this tutorial is fantastic! Im so glad to have found one of the few youtubers doing masculine historical clothes.

As much as I love 16th &17th century menswear, Regency era is my next love. Thanks for this. Looking forward to your videos on this era

The “Regency” male figure is usually depicted as as slender, for some reason - but you make this style look imposing (yet restrained). The fabric/pattern of the waistcoat is really beautiful- again splendid but dignified.

When someone asks me the difference between hand & machine sewing, I pull up this video. Mathew does such a great job of showing all of the little gathers and turns that can be made by hand- that could never be done the same way on a machine. I learned so much about hand sewing from his videos!

I just made my first 18th century shift and then “pirate shirt” all by hand. I’m loving the process! I REALLY enjoyed your Regency shirt. I’m getting myself revved up to try a whole outfit for my (adult) son. Your video is the first step in that direction. Thanks!

I HAVE WATCHED SEVERAL TUTORIALS AND YOURS IS THE ABSOLUTE CLEAREST AND MOST FUNCTIONAL…THANK YOU..

Thank you for this video. The shirt looks great! I'm a woman, but have been wanting to make an 18th century men's shirt for myself for a while. Thank you for the excellent tips!

Thank you! There's definitely a dearth of tutorials and info on how to make period-accurate regency menswear, so this is awesome.

I love the buttons

That buttonhole bar trick is genius!

This is an EXCELLENT tutorial! Thank you for your hard work here, MG.

First of all, you look great, chins and all, and second, I deeply appreciate anything about clothing from the perspective of a man who isn't built like a baby deer. There's only so much one can learn from a tailor who's never had to let out a pair of pants. Thirdly, I've been sewing for HOW long and never knew to wrap the seam allowances in like at 22:30 when finishing a cuff?? this may change my life

We've all been eating our feelings. You look amazing in this outfit. Another great video!

You look fab!! This was amazing. Bernadette Banner and her "pirate shirt" Beautifully made. Thanks. X

Love the shirt. Thank you for showing how to make a button.

Just found your channel, mentioned by minjalinjee. And YES! All the men's historical tailoring, please!

Thank you for this video, I am about to make a shirt and your hints have saved me a lot of head-scratching

You look Great! Excellent job!...i taught my son to sew, cook, clean, can, garden, & even iron cos women these days don't do domestic much if at all. Like you, he is also excellent at these things & even enjoys them. lucky for him cos his wife does Not do any of them..he has to do it all, along with raising 3 kids, Plus work as a truck driver..but.she makes him happy & that is what matters, so..anyway.Thanks for sharing this! i'm gonna make one for him as a surprise.

Thank you! It turned out beautiful, and you look very elegant! I can’t wait to try to make one!

1st off yay.. someone making period men's clothes (it's a rare thing on KZfaq). 2nd hand sewing and my phalanges don't get along. So how does one make the shirt on a modern day machine 🤔

thank you so much for that little bit about the side-seam gussets. i’ve been using a combination of tutorials for my shirt, but at some point you just need to see someone else do it before it makes sense

Absolutely fascinating!

The silhouette is so flattering! I love the sleeves as well💙💕

This is an amazing tutorial! Thank you so so much!

It looks so comfortable. Wonderful.

Amazing work!

Thank you for the great tutorial, and you DO look great!

So much to learn, I will need to watch this twice. Thank you Birdy

Thank you for the very detailed tutorial - so helpful. Welcome to the Regency Period!

Gorgeous! I love the fabric of the waistcoat. That shirt looks so comfortable and just amazing. I am practicing that button making technique. Thank you for your time.looking forward to the future videos

I love your outfit 😻 , you are very clever 😀

Excellent work! Painstaking detail! You look awesome. Looking forward to more videos in this series. 👍

I really enjoyed this video Mathew, thank you for posting. I also learned a lot. Look forward to seeing more content in the future.

Fantastic tutorial! I'm shocked you don't have more followers!

Very nice video! I particularly found the neck and shirt tail gussets installation useful. Thanks!

You look very handsome in that shirt and waistcoat, which is stunning btw.

Thanks for this video, you explain things very well! I hand-sewn a shirt like this before but didn't attempt to do a collar yet , now that I watched this I feel like I could do it! :D

What an excellent video! I have made regency era shirts before and, honestly, they are one of my favorite things to make, however, you have some tips in the video that I have never seen before anywhere. I agree with the other comments that there is so much content for women’s clothing out there but not as much for men’s. So glad you were here to help change that! I will be watching!

Oh wow, you and your outfit are awesome 😍

I love tedious, tedious stitching. Beatiful work. Thank you for sharing your passion with us.

That shirt looks amazing. I will find the fabric and make one for myself. Thank you so much. ❤

I’m definitely trying this out 😊 Thank you so much

It was so much fun to watch the shirt come together. And you look great in this look!

Excellent video! Thank you for sharing

THANK YOU SO MUCH, I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THE NAME, ERA OR JUST LIKE ANY INFO ABOUT THESE TYPE OF CLOTHING FOR YEARS

Thank you so much for this! I'm very excited for this series, because, as you say, there is a great deal of content online for women's clothing of many time periods, but very little for menswear. Your videos on doublet making have for the first time interested me in 17th century menswear (I've never liked the poofy-hipped silhouette with the trunk hose, but the tailoring on the doublets looks both fun and flattering...and those breeches do look super comfy...), and now that you're doing Regency-specific clothes, I am tempted to buy every book you've written whether I'll use them or not, just to encourage-and, in a small way, fund-your continued work. I'll probably start with a subscription to your website, though ;).

Loved the video. It's been years since I sewed, so a closeup of the various stitches would be helpful. You rocked the waistcoat! Thank you.

Waw~~ you make even buttons!! I will watch your video again and again. Your working is so beautiful that I am impressed fully.

You look great. Do not worry about your looks

Well done and thank you.

There are a lot of videos here on youtube about constructing this very shirt, and in preparation for making my own I have watched almost all of them. This one is the best, I love it! Not only is it extremely clear and informative, but I found it to be really relaxing to watch, your energy is so calming. Thank you for making such a nice video for us all to enjoy, I look forward to watching the rest of the videos on your channel and seeing more from you in the future! :)

Great video, and a great look!

Subscribed! I know what you mean about the breeches and neck holding the weight in. I’ve gained covid weight too. You’re not the only one. The costs feel great too with their heavy weight and long length. I hope I can get some items or make some someday.

I just spent a weekend dressing in Regency menswear and I'm hooked. Going to try to make some more shirts myself, because buying a custom one is pricey!

Truely an educational video. I esp learned from the tip about baisting first. Thank you.

Thank you for this tutorial and hope you still view comments. I really enjoyed and understood your instructions. Questions, where can I* find similar fabric to also make the waistcoat? Thanks much!

Wonderful video. I dont think you need to talk down your sewing. A Regency tailor would have started sewing as a young boy, spending hours a day practicing, and as you say, tedious, tedious, tedious! That as an adult you have learned to do so is remarkable and noteworthy.

Yes, you do look good\very smart in your perfectly made shirt and waistcoat. I have always liked doing small whip stitching and buttonhole stitches (don’t ask why because I don’t know….. but might be something to do with my Domestic Study teacher who taught me and who I loved and would have sat all day in snow, whip stitch something for her). Also I grew up with my mother who came from a life of domestic service and had learned stitching from her own mother so when she was thrust into this world of Domestic Torture she had something that she was ‘good’ at. Mum was an absolute GENIUS in the home she created for my father and his 3 children and then ME:). Recently I took out some precious pieces of sewing that she stitched, dad would draw the design and she would embroider. Lovely. Really, I thought your stitching was excellent and your shirt very well made indeed.

Oh my! I did not know you're on youtube! Sir, you look dashing!

I've just started watching your channel so this isn't the change of pace for me that it is for your long time subscribers. I'm looking forward to going back to see some older stuff. I love Regency clothes but I don't quite have courage to wear them so I dress more Edwardian, generally. I've been sewing for decades but I'm just now getting into hand sewing and this was helpful. I wish you had shown more of the shoulder gusset. I watched it twice and still can't see exactly how it goes in. Really great video, though. You probably already know that many Regency era men wore stays (corsets) to maintain a trim figure under those tight waistcoats but, really you look just fine the way you are! (After I typed all of this, I just realized that YT recommended a two year old video. I thought it was new.)

That is a beautiful shirt!

I just finished a muslin version of this shirt. It fits quite well. I particularly love the sleeves when I wear the shirt. I used the barasystem pattern and I loved to dive into the basics of this system to have the correct measurements. I have 2 remarks: 1. the collar seems to be just a tiny bit too narrow (same as you at 25:21), so I shall add ½cm to the collar to make it just a little more comfortable. 2. when I put the shirt on, its seems to 'pull' to the back. I hope it helps to make the gatherings at the back of the neck gusset tinier. I'll just try. Thank you very much for this video!

Wonderful outfit. You are looking great 😊👏👏 beautifully done. I am norwegian. I am not sure if you are familiar with the local customs: BUNAD, from all over Norway. Nevertheless, I made my white, linen shirt with embroidery on the neck front, the collar and the cuffs and put it all together. I was to gave gussets like you have here. And watching you making this, kind of sets me back to my work. I did use a sewing machine, but I would gladly make one like you did here. As I said: Beautifully craftsmanship 👏👏👏 people not sewing like this, do not have a clue of the patience, skill and interest you need to preforming this. Good work 😊

L’ensemble vous va à merveille. Très jolie avec la veste et la cravate. 😍

Really enjoyed this video. The neck treatment with button hole stitch and bar will definitely come in handy, thank you for showing it in such detail! When do you decide to use a thimble or not?

Love this vid. New sub

Great video, I'm so excited for the rest of the series! I would love to know (1) what weight linen you are using (bonus points for recommending a good source), and if you are sewing with linen thread, or waxed cotton, or what! (seems like you say linen thread for the button hole, so I assume its the same for the rest of the shirt?

Love the shirt ! Would like to make one but it does look "complicated". Thank you :-)

so excited about this tutorial! and in general glad i found your channel, excited to look through more of your videos. the neck slit has the button hole stitch reinforcement and the side slits have the butterfly things, but how are the slits in the wrist reinforced?

Supet video, thank you

tysm !!

Great job and video, is there a Mr modern maker? Woof

Matthew, where have you been all my life? Or at least for the covid era when I really got into european historical clothing? I am absolutely in love with the button making that you have just shown. My playlist for today is full but I will definitely write you some love letters after exploring your channel more.

He just casually added the best button tutorial of all time at 14:30

Thanks for bringing us along on this adventure. You look very Beau Brummell-ish🤗 Was the shoulder/sleeve facing a 19th century development?

I. Love. THIS. SHIRT. I have questions. I love how this looks. I want it all.

Hugs, I hear you on the eating the feelings thing! However you look amazing as always in this outfit! And those buttons! How simple but effective! Thank you. Are the butterflies on the skirt side vents used earlier in time? I know that my husband's shirts (14th/15thC) occasionally split there, would this type of thing have been used?

This video is amazing! A friend showed me your channel and I am now a big fan of your work! Also you look great in the regency clothes! The dandy style suits you very well. I am also in love with that waistcoat! Can’t wait for the tutorial on that 😍 lots of love from Brazil

Mate, really great job! I get very interested in this waistcoat too, did you make it by yourself? What fabric is it made of? Cheers

Ugh. That waistcoat is beautiful.

I love it I want it I'm gonna make it.... I'm gonna make several and then I'm gonna wear them everyday

I am so impressed! How long did it take you in total to make this shirt? I wonder whether using a machine would have saved much, if any, time :)

I just found your channel and am already enjoying it! Just a question-is the “bar” at the bottom of the neck slit a historical practice? Im not a stickler about historical practice myself, but I do think it’s interesting to know what’s historical and what is your own invention. 😊

This is great! I'm so excited to try this. (I don't think I see where the side vents should start though? Am I missing a mark? Also, am I understanding correctly that the neck gusset squares are cut in half on the diagonal?)

This is exactly what I was looking for! I just need some clues about the second pattern that can be adjusted. I guess it's in inches. As I usually work in centimeter and am a beginner, I guess the height should be used in inches too in the calculations. Is that right? Do you think it could be possible to get the shirt tighter without modifying something else than the body rectangles? Thank you 🙏

Thank you for acknowledging how absolutely *tedious* some of this historical sewing is, dare I say even monotonous? As much as I love hand-stitching some pieces of my historical clothing, I also love using my sewing machine and *gasp* my serger sometimes : ) Cheers mate!

Great video! How long did it take you to hand sew this shirt?

I'm so great at math, I think to myself, calculating the chest measurements with a 48in chest

Thank you so much for this! One question, when gathering the sleeve head, how do you decide how much to gather? And am I correct to assume the marks on the pattern (body) is where the sleeve/gusset close up?

Thanks for this video. I'm trying to use this to make the Lizzie Bennet dress (Kiera knightly) and this shirt goes under. Is there a way to scale to a woman's petite frame using the numbers you have provided at 2:56? Thanks!

Did you do the needlework on your vest?

Hi, Mathew! What is a 'felling' stitch? Thank you!

This certainly is a more complicated shirt than the one I watched you make at the Forty Year Celebration. And although you say your stitching is not as fine as the extant shirts it is finer than what you did on the 4YC shirt. How many stitches to the inch do those high end shirts have?

How much does the Fabrice weight, or wich weight span would be recommend for a Shirt Like this?

I have some trouble understanding the diagramm. What do these letters stand for (for example L tt?) and how do I know how wide I must make the cutouts since I do need to scale it down quite a bit? I also use metric.

how is this different to an 16th 17th or 18th century shirt?

How many yards of fabric did you use?

Thanks for the great tutorial! I have a question! How much width do you give the shirt and how do you calculate the length of the shoulder? Do you use any formula for this?