• Basic Costuming,  Historical Dress

    A Closer Look at the Basic Dress Shirt

    This is a continuation of our earlier article about the anatomy of a dress shirt.   After all of our research, we felt that we could write an entire article just about the history and fit of dress shirts. This article is less based on wardrobe knowledge, and more in the costume design world. We felt it was relevant and exciting all the same. This post may contain affiliate links. We only recommend products we have tried and tested ourselves. If you use these links to purchase something, we may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. These links help us cover the running costs of The Wardrobe…

  • Basic Costuming,  Costuming

    The Anatomy of a Men’s Dress Shirt

    Let’s take a closer look at the anatomy of a men’s dress shirt!  A dress shirt is one of the most basic pieces of clothing–one you will probably find to some extent in any show that takes place as early as the Victorian era to the present day.   When you break a dress shirt down into pieces, you will find that although the shirts in different periods look different, all of the dress shirts have pretty much the same build, just with different variations in style.   We will dive further into different variations of collar, cuff, pocket, fabric, etc in a later article.  This post may contain affiliate links. We…